I’m Back!

I think it’s time for my break to be over. There are going to be some pretty major changes around here.

I started this particular blog largely because my husband bought me my own domain and encouraged me to try to make something of it. He knows how much I love blogging and it meant so much to me that he gave me this gift that I got it into my head I had to make it a success NOW NOW NOW!!!

So I joined a bunch of communities and set out to make my blog successful like so many others. I was trying to follow all kinds of advice that’s offered up: comment tons on everybody else’s stuff! Write every day or as close to that as possible! Have some kind of form to your blog: i.e, what you write about, be true to your audience, etc etc etc.

Guys, I’ve come to a conclusion about all of that and how it relates to me: it doesn’t. I can’t blog this way. I hate it. I’m just going to write what I want to, when I want to and if that means I don’t have lots of followers and my blog is terribly unpopular, fine. I want to blog because I enjoy it and I don’t want to feel like I have to take take take away from my family in order for it to be successful. No more “Weighty Wednesdays” or any of that crap. No more random articles *unless I want to*. Don’t get me wrong, I read plenty of blogs that have that kind of form and there is nothing wrong with it and I LIKE them. But I don’t like writing that way. At all.

I think the best advice I’ve come across in my personal life and in the blogging world is to remember that nobody writes like I do. I don’t need to do things the way anyone else does because what makes my writing worth reading is the fact that it’s unique; it’s me.

So from now on, this blog is just me. Whatever I want to write. You might hear me gushing about my kids or ranting about “Oh Noes!!! Someone is wrong on the internet!” but I’m through trying to be successful “like the other girls”. I’m just me. This is me, this is my space and I welcome anyone reading to stay. I won’t be offended if you don’t, though.

And now I do actually have something I want to talk about but it’s going in it’s own post.