Celebrating A Little Personal Milestone

I have long been  a lover of blogs, I’d love to just veg in front of the computer gazing at other peoples dreamy photos of houses, decorating ideas that sort of thing. Then whilst on maternity leave, feeling isolated, tired, bored, fragile and hopeless I stumbled across to the ‘Mummy Blog’ scene one day after I googled “what does a stay at home mum do all day”. Then there they appeared, blog after blog after blog with ideas, advice, photos, tips, tears, feelings, answers, everything I needed to read at that time of my life. I found many great ideas and realised I had some great ideas of my own that I now wanted to give back and help other new Mums, new Stay at Home Mums or expecting Mums.

So in February I got myself a website, I stayed up all night and blogged my heart out to give it some content, set up a Facebook page and put it all out there. Once I got going I couldn’t be stopped, I had become a blogging junkie, I even quit going to the gym so I could blog all day. I sat at the computer so much that I ended up with a pinched nerve in my spine that caused my left arm to go numb. So I almost chucked it in, I figured my life was full enough how was I now supposed to fit this blog in too. I was getting new Liker’s everyday so I had made a commitment to my peeps to keep blogging, and I did just not as much.

I just wanted to say to everyone who follows my blog thank you, I am so happy to share my life, my ideas, my binge blogging addiction with you all. I love your comments and emails some of them have made me tear up! There have also been nasty ones, also another factor that made me want to quit. I love my blog, I am glad I started it as it serves two purposes. One I really want to help Mums out there, I’m not going to sugar coat it, it’s the hardest most underpaid, underrated and underappreciated job going. No sick leave, no holidays, no superannuation, just snotty nose kisses that make it worth doing. Two it gave me a hobby, a purpose, something outside the square, something different to focus on, something that was in the ‘I’d never be able to do that’ basket became achievable!

My blog is four months old, some days I struggle to think what to blog about some days I do a few posts but have learnt to save them for the next few days. If there is anything you would like to see more of let me know, I am more than happy to go there, answer questions and share my experiences with you. My goal was to get 100 liker’s, that was amazing to me, so I set a new goal of 200 liker’s, which really seemed a bit ridiculous, now I am there. I have even been approached to advertise on my blog, but I am not sure if I am going to go that way. To celebrate my little achievement I just bought a ticket to the Nuffnang Blogopolis 2012 which will be my first ever blog conference in June, can’t wait, oh and a chocolate pudding!!

So my Yummy Mummies. If you have something you’ve wanted to do but keep talking yourself out of it, have a go at it you might surprise yourself. The only thing stopping you is the excuses you keep telling yourself, think of one thing you’ve wanted to do for some time, write it down, stick it on the fridge and tomorrow morning when the baby is in bed, or the kids are at school, start looking in to it and find the motivation and a way to do it sister!

Renee

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