Musings of a Mommy Blogger
Am I the only one out there who is dragging when it comes to blogging? I swear, getting even a few posts up the last few weeks has taken effort.
Or maybe because I want to internalize all my daily profundities such as how Fruity Cheerios blow up to look suspiciously like Fruit Loops when doused with water. Mind-blowing, I know.
One of the things that has cracked me up about this blog is I started it to keep in contact with friends and family and yet I feel more isolated from them than ever. Meaning: they read it but 99% of them refuse to admit to it or ever comment. And they don't feel the need to email because HELLO, they read my blog that day so already know what is going on in my life. Voila, my empty inbox.
Oh, and maybe it's also because I haven't been too great with returning emails these days.
I started blogging a few years ago before it was really en vogue and I didn't understand the community aspect of it. My initial blog was over at MSN and I remember when the first "stranger" left a comment. I was completely taken aback and promptly deleted it, equating them as a stalker.
Little did I know blogging is legalized stalking. And I have truly loved the community I am now a part of. But I have to admit I have been frequently tempted to turn my blog private and only admit entrance to those who are an active part of it.
And especially now that so much of time and attention has been turned to growing Colorado's mommy blogger community at Mile High Mamas, I'm just trying to figure out my little Crazy Bloggin' Canuck's place in this big, bad blogging world.
Has anyone ever had any of the same thoughts? Have you been frustrated by the number of visitors who don't give any feedback? Has the direction and purpose of your blog changed since you first started it? I guess what I am saying is I am going through a blogging mid-life crisis and need to be talked off the ledge. :-)
Or maybe because I want to internalize all my daily profundities such as how Fruity Cheerios blow up to look suspiciously like Fruit Loops when doused with water. Mind-blowing, I know.
One of the things that has cracked me up about this blog is I started it to keep in contact with friends and family and yet I feel more isolated from them than ever. Meaning: they read it but 99% of them refuse to admit to it or ever comment. And they don't feel the need to email because HELLO, they read my blog that day so already know what is going on in my life. Voila, my empty inbox.
Oh, and maybe it's also because I haven't been too great with returning emails these days.
I started blogging a few years ago before it was really en vogue and I didn't understand the community aspect of it. My initial blog was over at MSN and I remember when the first "stranger" left a comment. I was completely taken aback and promptly deleted it, equating them as a stalker.
Little did I know blogging is legalized stalking. And I have truly loved the community I am now a part of. But I have to admit I have been frequently tempted to turn my blog private and only admit entrance to those who are an active part of it.
And especially now that so much of time and attention has been turned to growing Colorado's mommy blogger community at Mile High Mamas, I'm just trying to figure out my little Crazy Bloggin' Canuck's place in this big, bad blogging world.
Has anyone ever had any of the same thoughts? Have you been frustrated by the number of visitors who don't give any feedback? Has the direction and purpose of your blog changed since you first started it? I guess what I am saying is I am going through a blogging mid-life crisis and need to be talked off the ledge. :-)
posted by Amber @12:00 AM
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well, i think if i stopped blogging i would really miss it. i don't get that many comments and i don't know if i mind - i enjoy the "blogging" still. altho, at points, yes, i have been tempted to just close up shop - especially those "in a funk" days!
I hear you! I stopped looking at my stats because it made me nervous seeing so many non-commenting return visitors. I also find it hard to talk to friends & family that don't have blogs but read mine. Good luck coming off the ledge. It is best not to look down.
I would so miss you if you stopped blogging here!! This is the blog where we get you and only you. Mile High Momma's has so many different voices, which can be nice, but mostly I only ever go there to read what you write because I am not a resident of Denver. I would miss hearing from you and only you.
Try not to stress about comments. I only have two family members that regularly comment and in the case of my mother more often than not I wish she would not since she likes to tease me too much. Just relax and blog for yourself and not your audience.
I'm always shocked by the people who actually come to my blog. But I only get a few commenters... but then again, I'm never very profound. Oh well... I do enjoy reading your blog.
Please don't stop! I confess I'm one of those who doesn't comment very often, but I absolutely love reading about your life--it brings back memories of the "good old days" with three children under the age of 2 (twin boys!). Please keep those crazy antics coming! Patty Smith
Hey Crazy Lady!
I'd miss you and you're crazy blogness! I LOVE hearing about the gourds, the kids, and your awesome sense of humor keeps me coming back for more!
PUH-LEASE Don't Stop!!
When I started blogging, it was about Me. I didn't anticipate the community aspect and realize that the reason I'd love it so was because it's about We.
Also, I started blogging about adoption. That can only go so far. So now I blog about other things, too. Writing has made me more observant about life.
You have articulated so well how I feel about my blog as well. I get so annoyed at my family because they either read my blog, enjoy it, and say nothing or read it and call me if they are offended by something.
And church friends are worse. A few weeks ago I posted a bit about my best friend and another girl cried all through church because she hadn't been invited to the party that I NEVER MENTIONED on my blog but posted a silly picture from. AND it was a SURPRISE party planned and thrown by my friend's MOTHER!!!! And yet, somehow in this I AM THE BIG BAD BLOGGER!!!!
And this past Sunday while talking with another friend she asked what I had been up to and I told her a myriad of things and then she mentioned the B-L-O-G (yes, she spelled it out??) and then I said that I write a lot more than what goes on the blog and she said "That is probably best!" Huh? How am I supposed to take that? I guess she had been consuling the likes of friend above a little too much??? Sheesh!
And yet I find myself feeling guilty about quitting. Because I like nice people like you.
When you are off the ledge, could you please come talk me off. Because seriously, I'm about ready to jump.
Oh, please don't stop. I love reading here, and I can't imagine blogging without the few wonderful women I've "met" far and wide who I think could be such dear friends if only they lived closer. I don't worry about the people who visit without commenting. I read lots of blogs, but I don't always leave a comment every day. I have a reader, but I know that in fact more people don't use a reader than do -- so I would imagine that those who read daily but never or rarely comment are no different than me, except that my stat counter counts their visit because they don't have a reader to aggregate posts.
At least, that's what I tell myself.
But I also think you should only do what YOU want to do in terms of blogging -- frequency, topics, public or not -- it's all your call.
(But please invite me to keep reading if you do go private. Otherwise I'll go back to having a long-lost twin again... :)
I do find it frustrating when people close to me read my site and don't leave any feedback. Like you said, they feel like they know everything and thus the communications slow.
And I've had many times where I have thought about throwing in the towel, giving up my blog. I've been doing it for soooo long. But then some little comment will change my mind, or a new technology advancement will come along, or I'll just have something really funny happen in my life that I need to blog about.... and my blogging mojo is refreshed.
You're an entertaining and funny blogger, I enjoy your site and the perspective you take on things. I think most of us that frequent your site would agree on that! We love you Amber! :-)
Yes! I have been feeling a bit of a blogging rut of late. I think it is because I went on vacation and was away from my computer for a week and broke my blogging habit.
I have so many visitors that do not comment! I do feel a little frustrated but what can you do? I'd love to hear from them. Do they keep coming because they like what they read? Hate it? Think I am an idiot? what is it?
And yes, the direction of my blog has changed because I basically had no idea what I was doing and was just flying by the seat of my pants when I started. I feel like I am finally starting to figure out my niche. (At least I hope I am...)But I mostly just blog for fun so don't stress to much about it.
I just stumbled onto your blog (in a roundabout way from twitter) and not wanting to be one of those lurking readers, thought I'd stop and leave a comment.
I'm in my own blogging slump lately, too. Which is hard to imagine, since I've only been blogging since um March. I'm so new to blogging that I've never even checked my stats because I don't know how! Which means that in my mind I still only have like 3 readers.
Let's blame the slump on the change in the weather/season. This too shall pass. :)
... or you just need to buy yourself a little red sportscar =)
i have been feeling some of these same things (as i posted on this same subject). a dryness. a loneliness because there aren't as many comments, and even the whole family thing.
i'm starting to get, "are you okay? you haven't posted in two days. i know how you're doing from your [nearly] daily posts." but i will be honest, i'm thankful i don't have to do as much emailing to my family. let them be updated through my blog. works better for me.
anyways... hang in there. hopefully it's just a phase. and you have been doing something more important... motherhood!
Blog out of control here!
I get you, it is hard sometimes because blogging can kind of take over your life. Since we go way back to MSN Days, you know I come and go depending on what is going on in my life.
I too wanted to keep up with family and friends in the beginning. I think our families mean well, but they don't like to write, don't get how to leave a comment or whatever. I continue because I need the outlet and have made great "blogging buddies" like you, who have seen me through good times and bad.
So don't look of the ledge, that is where I pushed the dishes I didn't want to wash and maybe a few loads of laundry, K? It ain't pretty.
I completely agree about the family part - that's the reason I started it too. Now that we live in the same town as most of our family they NEVER comment anymore!
I do get frustrated about people not leaving comments but I guess in the back of my mind I've realized that the main reason I do blog is to document what has gone on in our lives. I just hope Logan & Noah don't get too embarrassed about what I've written about them :)
I have had these same thoughts (though my blog is definitely on a smaller scale). Anyway, I have wondered whether to continue or to just print it all into a book and figure out a new way to track our family's goings on.
I admit to going through phases of not commenting on others' blogs, but I do find it annoying when I know certain people are reading it, but don't comment. It makes me feel like I need to censor myself, or that they are silently judging me or something!
Anyway, I always enjoy what you have to say!
p.s. I think you were the first stranger to comment on mine actually.
Step away from the ledge Amber! I would completely miss reading your antics in parenthood, the pumpkin patch and all the other craziness that goes on in your family. I promise to comment more often as long as you don't jump!
I can't say I am bugged by lurkers because there are a few blogs I visit without commenting. It's just the lurkers I KNOW that I am bugged about because I don't ever hear from them anymore! :-)
If you were making money hand-over-fist with blog ads like a few fellow bloggers, you KNOW that you would be feeling it a lot more. I KNOW I would, anyway.
It takes me forever these days to channel my "brilliant" ideas into a cohesive post.....and then I think, "Really. Why bother?"
I've gone blog lethargic! But not quite Blog Suicidal.
I enjoy your blog so much and it does remind me of the days when my kids were little. Im sorry i dont comment much. You are one of the blogs I do read every day. I promise I will try to comment more.JUST DONT JUMP!!!!
Giggles
I love your blog - I don't know how I stumbled on it, but yours was the first strangers blog I ever read and you were the first stranger to ever comment on my blog - I was thrilled!! You have inspired me to put more effort into my blog and I hope you don't go private, but I also know that you should take care of you so what ever you choose I would support. I agree though I LOVE feedback!!!
I think you're expressing what most of us bloggers have felt MANY times! It's funny that you mention the "stranger" thing--you were the first "stranger" to comment on my blog. Now I feel like I totally know you--and I love reading your blog! So no--don't quit! And yes--blog-stalkers that don't leave comments are annoying--especially ones we know!
I have to say I was a blog stalker, um reader for a long time without making many comments. I was new to the whole thing so wasn't sure about commenting on stranger's blogs. Now that I have my own blog, I understand more the community aspect and love comments, so I try to comment more often. There still are blogs that I don't comment on, though. I try not to stress too much if I don't get comments. I rarely get comments from people I know. I'm not sure my mom even know how. :) She has started getting email feed from my blog and she will reply to the emails, which is nice.
As far as going private, I have a private more personal family blog that I mostly put pictures of my family and more personal information. All my random thoughts go on my personal blog. I think it just depends on what you want in your blog. I would miss your crazy stories and hilarious anecdotes if you went away!
Welp...here we are. My favorite mommy blogger standing at the edge of the same precipice I find myself at all of the time. When I started blogging it was for me. Just for me. I didn't know or care if ANYONE read it. Blogging was the only way I had found the FORCED me to write a "journal" I was addicted. I later found out the quite a few of my friends read me EVERY day...but NEVER commented. This bugged me. I threatened to stop. They commented once. I begged for comments. I threatened to stop yet again. The commented once. I finally had to decide why I blog. It is still for me. I am still no good at "journaling".
I guess what I am trying to say is that if you do indeed go private...or heaven forbid stop blogging all together, I will understand. I will miss you A LOT. But you gotta do what you gotta do. Funny how blogging makes us feel that we have friends who don't even know we exist.
Hey...maybe now that I have de-lurked you could stop by my blog and we could have a real online friendship. That would be something. Perhaps I should give this de-lurking thing some more thought.
I started my blog as a substitute journal/scrapbook (blurb.com) since I wasn't doing a great job on keeping up with one offline. I've had a bit of a hard time balancing posting things that fit with my origianl purpose and not getting caught up in trying to post things that will please/amuse/solicit comments from my friends/family that read it. I think after the initial excitement of 'more comments please!', I've returned to using it as a scrapbook of daily events and our kids growing up. Comments have dropped off (I think a lot of people are getting blog weary), but oh well.
In the past month I've gone from being a public blog, to a private blog, back to being a public one. I got sick when I saw so many visits from out of country and thought for sure I was becoming a victim of identity theft- is that even possible? So I changed our blog since then to have aliases and such, but still it kind of takes the joy out of it.
I never check how many people stop by my blog, but if you go by comments, it's about 6 people. Three of which comment regualarly. I once had 8 comments. Boy howdy, that was a good day! I still blog, just because I like it. Part of it is for the out of state fam, but my Mom is the only one to ever comment. I stop by here every day, but sometimes (and I'm being honest here) I don't comment because your 28+ comments seems great compared to my two. Call it jealousy, whatev. But, I do read your blog all the time. So, please don't cut me off! If you go all exclusive and and stuff, I hope I make the list:-)
There are sometimes when I really feel the blog is dragging...I've considered not continuing too. I don't know...maybe I still will...I'm trying to see if I can get some more comments some more readers, but if I can't...who knows? I do have a private blog in addition to my "public" blog. It's kind of the one I use a family journal and it's a good way for me to let grandmas and grandpas in on what we are doing...Now I feel like I'm rambling...but I do want to just say...I love reading your blog and think you are fantastic. For my sake...I hope you don't stop. :)
Take a deep breath and slowly walk away from the ledge :) !!
It seems like a lot of people are experiencing bloggy angst right now. I say blog when and how you want, but don't completely give up! Even if your readership or comment level goes down, who cares. This is about you and the community you have built and it is meant to be enjoyed!
I am experiencing blogging problems, myself. I want to be a devoted mom and serve well in the church and up to date on blogging...I can't seem to accomplish it all and it hurts my heart.
It also upsets me that I can't keep up on commenting on all of my favorite blogs. I guess something has gotta give and it makes me sad but, blogging lots of time suffers for me so I can keep my head above water elsewhere.
I started to blog just so my family can keep up with my life and kids. My sibling and I live in different states and I just thought it was a great communication tool complete with pictures.
My blog is completely a family blog. In fact, I'm quite surprised anyone would have any sort of interest in my blog other than my immediate family. I do not do fun, clever or thought-provoking posts. It's all about my kids (and how cute and great I think they are... hahaha).
Anyway, even though I am private, I still have a lot of readers and only about 20% of them comment. weird. If they don't start commenting I'm going to "un-invite" them... kidding of course.
I love your blog. You are everything I am not and could only hope to be.
Like most other people, I started my blog to let my family know what was going on in our lives--most of them don't read and those that do rarely comment. It is very disappointing to me.
I am so appreciative of those who do visit and comment.
It's been a lot of fun getting to know others--I love visiting your blog and try to ALWAYS comment.
Aaaaaymen.
But for the record my blog is unpublished and my family and friends still won't comment.
I do not understand.
But I refuse to get obligated to my blog. If I don't feel all posty I just don't. And I don't even feel the need to warn people.
I'm a rebel.
A geeky, bloggy rebel, but still...
Amber-
My advice? Take a break. Take a long, needed, nicety-nice break from blogging. I do it about once every 6 months; sometimes my break is a few days, sometimes it's over a week.
Do it. Take a break, and when you're ready to come back, I will be waiting here for you. Because I ADORE your blog and I LOVE your writing. But you need to do it for the right reasons. Regardless of what people think, blogging should be personal, fun, and not a chore. Unless you get paid millions of dollars, of course. Then everything I said doesn't matter. *snort
Love you, my Canadian friend. :)
I hope you'll keep blogging becasue I love your blog. I promise I'll leave a comment each time. I just started blogging this year and like you it was just for family, then it slowly started to take on the aspect of community for me, too. And although I like it I struggle with keeping up. But it's been really great especially because blogs like yours inspire rookies like me.
I could use me some more stalkers. I mean commenters.
I haven't been updating ours at all! We don't have our server up yet after the move so it's been hard. I started our blog to keep in touch with family who didn't live close and now it's become that and my journal (which I hardly write in anymore) sigh....
Thank you for putting all my thoughts into words so aptly. Mind if I cut and paste this on my blog and sign my name (minus the successful MHM part, 'cause I'm not that cool)?
um.. ya.. I've deleted my blog twice now. Good times. It's nice to know maybe it's not just me having issues.
I love reading your blog. So many times you have written about things that I've been thinking about and it's brought perspective and made me realize I'm not the only one feeling that way.
You're a very talented writer. so if you stop the blog- (please don't!!!) write a book or something I can read:)
Oh, puh-LEEZE! Now that I've gotten to know you a little bit, I know that you are an exhibitionist (in the holiest, least creepy sense). Your public ADORES you and you're so good at entertaining them. So yeah, you could never go private. I'm not worried about you.
As for me, my blog is anonymous. My name doesn't ever appear on it. My family and many of my friends don't even know it exists. That's how I like it. So I've never experienced it from your angle! I welcome the strangers, and hide from my loved ones. :-D
Amber, I enjoy reading your blog, but often don't leave comments. Actually I read a lot of blogs and fail to comment. Usually because I have limited time and can get more reading time in if I don't stop to comment. I think I should start working on commenting more.
Heather
Ditto all you said. From going private to isolation. And I am not even sure when or if my family is reading. They don't comment if they do. And that is why I started it as well. When I think I can be done, something happens and I put something together, but I don't spend nearly as much time editing and thinking the posts through like I used to.
I love reading your blog! Your family is hilarious. :)
I feel like this on a fairly regular basis. I decided to try blogging 2-3 times a week. It's helped. I announced it to my reading public (what?) so that they wouldn't be horribly disappointed in me (right...). And I take breaks. Sometimes you need to step back from the computer and just relax a little. There's a lot of pressure to write. I remember someone telling me once that they loved my blog and thought that every post was SO FUNNY! And I kind of panicked. They thought I was funny... that meant I had to be funny ALL THE TIME! It put this huge pressure on my blogging and it really freaked me out. So I stopped blogging for a couple of weeks and it was great :)
I can so relate to this, Amber. I hit about 150 hits a day but only 15-30 of those people usually pause to say something. It makes me uncomfortable sometimes, especially since I'm 100% out there on my blog. And 0% anonymous.
But, since I hope/aspire to be a published author some day, I figure this is a good way for me to prepare myself.
Except on the days that I get paranoid my ex-boyfriends might be peeking in to see how fat I got.
I get anywhere from 100-250 hits a day and i average about 15 comments. Don't they realize it is my validation????
I get emails from a few that aren't comfy commenting. I dig that.
I find myself putting so much energy into my comments lately that I can barely scrape out a post. Plus I am feeling all political and I don't want to write a political post. I just want to comment on political posts.
Oh and by the way, I would have loved to have you elaborate on the fruit flavored Cheerios discovery. Such revelations are what make Mommy Blogging so, ummm, exactly what IS it that Mommy Blogging is?
KEEP BELIEVING
I so hear you!! It's been very slow around my parts too. I was excited to hit 100 subscribers, but I usually only get 10 or so comments on a posts if I'm lucky. You have to look at what you want too. I truly blog because I enjoy it and if it was only for the comments I probably wouldn't do it. You are always so fun to read though so I will just stick around until you get your groove back...I have confidence in you!!!
I think it's smart that you've got the new thingy that shows who's on your blog and when. I just wanted to stop in and say HI! before we lose electricity for the next ? number of days. Hurricane Ike should pass almost directly over us late tonight/early am and I'm relieved that we won't be on the edge where the tornadoes like to appear.....no rain yet but the wind is getting harder....but no howling yet. Gotta eat dinner and then get the kids in bed (downstairs sleeping bags) and asleep before the wind starts howling because THAT is when it's scary. Other than that, your blog is fun and I enjoy reading it but yeah, I'm very less inclined to write because I'd read your blog almost daily instead (until the location-tracker was installed, then I started thinking I'd look like a freak if you saw Houston, TX listed multiple times a day...but I think it was a smart thing to add it to dissuade potential REAL stalkers, kwim?) Anyway, hugs and have fun decorating...but puhleez don't go all out until October! I can't wait to hear what costumes you're going to do this year! I think H & B should be the parents and you and J should be the kids. Wouldn't that be cute!
I loveyour blog - met you at BLogHer. I completely get what you are saying though. Sometimes It's so overwhelming, I almost get a burnt out feeling. On my blog I struggle with the fact that most of my blogosphere friends are moms but most of my local blogging friends are not. I actually started another blog (I am crazy) so that I would have a place for my non - mom friends who weren't comfortable or interested in my mommyness....
Crazy Canuck,
Get down from that ledge! I come to your blog everyday and mostly I leave no comments. I may have left one in the last two years. I don't leave comments fearing I have nothing brilliant to say. That may be how many feel. It may just be shyness. But I guarantee you they all love your wit, your advice on relationships, parenting and poop, and your good spirit. I don't know you very well, suspect that I have very little in common with you ( I am a black Caribbean semi-single woman with no children or plans of any and I love crafts! tee hee hee)but I would feel like a friend had left and said goodbye if your blog were to disappear. Please come down from the ledge.
Roslyn.
hc_badu@hotmail.com
P.S. I even read Jamie's pumpkin blog although I cannot for the life of me understand the pumpkin fetish!
I've barely been blogging more than a year and already I've become aware that there is an emotional cycle that comes with a blog and it goes something like this:
- look at me and my big bad brand new blog!
- hey look at all the cool ways I can drive traffic to my blog! And I know how to play with graphics and themes.
- here's a bunch of cool bloggers that all my readers need to stalk.
- I'm doing this cool new project thingy to keep me motivated to write.
- I've resorted to bullet points and a few pictures because I'm busy.
- sorry I didn't post last week. I may take a break for a while.
- I'm back but I'm censoring a little b/c my (ex/mom/kid's teacher) is reading.
- I've decided not to bog here anymore (starts a fresh invite-only blog somewhere else or gets their own domain)
- becomes popular again and the cycle repeats.
Sure a few bloggers take a different path. You are strong and you have a strong community here and at MHM. Eventually your real life friends/family will either friggin' leave a comment or invite you over for dinner some time.
Hang in there.
PS - Great party last night - thanks again!
Don't feel bad. My long-distance friends get an update at Christmastime, via our fabulous Christmas card--you included! If I wrote about it in a blog, all of my fans would be bored!
keep blogging, please. you're funny. you make my laugh and i need that and so do lots of other mommies. love reading your blog!
Your Halloween post above has no comments, so I'm adding it here. My friend swears that this Halloween magazine is worth getting:
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I've been in a mega rut lately. It seems that I always have the same things to say. I think of people like you who are truly talented writers and wonder what I'm doing with a blog anyway. I just keep hoping that my posterity might find it all worth it someday.
You, my dear, are a riot and I always leave your blog with a smile on my face.
Whoa, I missed this post! Blogging is tough. You're writing about your life, so you're already a bit self-conscious, and when people don't respond, it makes you wonder. I definitely enjoy reading whatever you write and try to comment when I have something to say!
Talking you down off the ledge.
Love your blog and your witty words.
I would be so sad to see you leave Blogville.
I am having addiction issues.
I am.
And I understand your frustration with your IRL friends who read your blog, and pretend not to.
Drives me crazy.
Most days I wish I had never told anyone I know about my blog.
Then it would make venting easier!
Why can I not comment on your last two posts?
ARRRGGGHHH!!!
don't jump Amber! lurkers come back time & time again because we love your blog, it brightens up our day if only for a moment. And I get some of the best chuckles of the day from your writings! Loved the whole 'brown' saga with Hadley, it was a soap opera on its own. Please don't take your blog private. I'd miss you. We all would miss you.
"they read it but 99% of them refuse to admit to it or ever comment. And they don't feel the need to email because HELLO, they read my blog that day so already know what is going on in my life."
That is me. EXACTLY! Don't go private - I love to read about your life.
oh dear, amber. i fully relate to your feelings, especially as the years have gone by in my blogging lifespan. i used to have my bloglink on my facebook profile but saw my stats go up but no more comments. which kind of annoyed me. and i have a good friend in my ward who regularly visits my blog and never comments. and never mentions my blog to me in real life. same with the kids blog that she is invited to. it's like she already knows what's going on in our lives so she doesn't need to ask me what's going on or call me. it's so wierd to me. paul says i should delete her and then maybe we would have stuff to talk about. anyway..i understand.
I love your blog ~ and I would miss your humor if you stopped. I feel that through the blogging community I have heard voices that I would never have had the privelege of hearing due to proximity or life situation.
That said...........I am so where you are. It's love/hate for me - especially with the family thing.
You think you have problems? Shoot, it’s been years since my wife read my musings. It’s just not her cup of tea. So much for the family connection! And my real life friends? Ninety percent of them are convinced that blogging is evil or crazy, so they’re never going to venture into Blogland and the other ten percent are crazy enough to think I’m normal; therefore, I can’t tell them I blog. It do get lonesome.
GACK!!! Quit blogging or going private? I mean, who would teach me the finer points in life such as finding the Great Pumpkin or coping in humour at the antics of the little ankle biters?
Now I will admit, that I don't get over here often, but when I do, you give me many minutes of pure entertainment in which I will often leave a rebuttal. But sadly, blogging has evolved to such a fine line somedays. There are expectations of keeping it current, yet those whom are expecting it never take the moment to show you how much the appreciate it by leaving a comment. It is frustrating I am sure.
I initially established my blog for family to keep up on my children's lives and sadly none of them read it. Instead, I have about 6 blogging friends out there in cyber land that follow my life. But for me, as sporadic as I do post, it is therapeutic and exciting to see that I even get a comment in return.
So, don't jump of that cyber ledge please. We haven't even like met in person yet and I am just dying to meet the Great Pumpkin God (okay .. just jokin ... but really would like to get the kids together for a play date if that doesn't sound stalker like).
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