Why blog?

I started this blog about a year and a half ago on a whim after reading one blog post on a blog that wasn’t even very interesting to me. Although my blog isn’t really considered new anymore, I’m still trying to build my following.

I’ve enjoyed writing since I was a kid. I started a diary in elementary school after reading The Diary of Anne Frank and found writing my thoughts helped me navigate the world with a better sense of myself. By junior high, as it was called back then, I’d moved on to writing a book. By the time I’d grown tired of that story I’d filled a 70-page spiral notebook with teen angst and drama… and much fantasy. Hey, a girl could dream that Corey Haim was her boyfriend, right?


My diaries moved into journal writing as I got older and no longer had the time or inclination to devote to writing daily, or even weekly.

At the point that I stumbled upon the blogosphere I’d not been writing for some time. Kids were taking up my time and that was how I wanted to spend my time. But I missed writing. I missed sharing my writing.

So this blog world appealed to me. I could write and get feedback at the same time. I found that blogging made me want to write other things. The idea for a novel is floating in my head. I have a rough outline. I have some passages written.


Writing on my blog may not be profound literary genius, but it is sparking something.


Today, I blog because I still enjoy writing. I blog because I want to remember the things my kids said and did when they were young. I want to remember me.

My family and friends are getting to see the real me, not just the daughter, the wife, the niece, the friend. My blog reminds me that I'm an interesting person, not JUST a mom.

I’m learning through making blogger friends that there are women going through the same things as I am – all over the world. Some women are brave enough to write about things I never could, but I read and silently thank them for their honesty.

This parenting gig is wonderful and difficult. Sometimes just reading that someone understands makes it easier to do it all again tomorrow.