Why keep writing? Inspired by my mom's pregnancy journal, I started throwing my thoughts in this space during my pregnancy. Why keep it up? It's not laser-focused on parenting, motherhood or anything, really.
When I started my blog I followed a small group of bloggers who wrote about fashion and they were most likely Mormon (what can I say, they are nice and know how to dress). I wanted to contribute to the larger community writing about a subject I was learning. While in the newborn, new parenting trenches, it was wonderful to read other stories of moms experiencing exactly what I was experiencing - to the week. Reading these stories early in the morning (along with coffee) fueled my morning. My struggles are my own but I wasn't on my own (cliche alert!).
I blog because I can highlight life's mundane moments. Celebrate the magic that surrounds us every single day:
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| Bartering and counting wood chips. |
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| Filled with joy and fear. |
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| She made it. Static and all. |
Blogging to share the magic every day is a perfect, perfect, perfect reason to blog. I love the photos. Static and all.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree, it's such a sweet way to capture the day's mundane moments. I love looking back on old blog entries and going, "Oh yeah, that!" with a smile.
ReplyDeletePS I love your blog design! It's so clean, simple, and stylish.
ReplyDeleteThank you! Glad I found yours - as a runner (I like to say that I run but I'm not a runner - I'm not that hard-core) I'm happy to find another mother runner!
DeleteCouldn't agree more and love that you do this to share your daily life. Think that is a perfect reason to blog and thank you so very much for linking up with us and hope you will join us again!! :)
ReplyDeleteThank you! Planning on it Janine!
DeleteI love mormom bloggers: they have the prettiest sites, the prettiest photography, and the conversational style of blogging that I'm drawn to.
ReplyDeleteI will always blog. Blogging changed my life by saving my mental health. In my small town community, despite living here 3 years, I still had no close friendships. When I began writing online over 4 years ago, my world became one of a now happy woman, with a happy family, and each year, blogging brings wonderful things into my life. It truly is something I wish they'd bring into elderly living facilities, because you claim your own space, you matter, you put your words down and you feel yourself go from nebulous to a beautifully evolving foundation of who you are. It's a gift, and I still can't believe how lucky I am, to have found it, and to be among the people I know count on, on a daily basis, to be my soul family.
I love what you wrote about highlighting the mundane moments- they somehow transcend being mundane when we write about them, don't you think? I am so glad you are blogging, and that you linked up with us today!
ReplyDeleteIt's a great way to document the everyday moments that will give future generations a glimpse into what our lives were like. Sort of a modern version of cave drawings but with better pictures. ;)
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