Evolution of life and blogging.

Posted on Mar 23 in Blogging, Featuredby TalinaPrint

Since Everly’s birth my passion for blogging has taken a totally different direction. Before I was able to come up with worthwhile content ideas, develop them, take the time to write them and I even was able to couple my ideas with video or photos I’d just taken. Me and my mind had peace and fluid train of thought.

Now that I’ve got a little one to tend to, my focus is on fulfilling her needs and taking in all the amazing moments of her development. My mind is a mess. One second I’ll remember that the laundry needs to be hung and that I had something I needed to do outside. Maybe some possible blog content comes to me at some point but I never have much time to take note of the content idea and develop it…

You see I am inspiration driven. Not being able to sit down and get working on a post right when it comes to me has totally killed my writing. As a result, all I have to write about at the end of the day is basically how the day went. Everything else just passes in a blur, that is motherhood for ya huh?

I’ve watched my commenters decrease as the days tick by and deep down inside I know it is because the regular person can only read about kid updates so much before it just become eye-gougingly-boring. I am a dreaded “mommy blogger” huh? Sucks but I just don’t have much to work with right now…

As the months pass and parenthood becomes more routine my ability to multi-task and take care of other obligations is returning. Shoot, I am even getting a few somewhat decent posts knocked out once in a while!

I don’t resign to being a “here-are-some-more-updates-about-my-kid-and-that-is-all-I-can-manage-to-write-about” blogger but for the time being that is the reality huh?

I really don’t like niche or blog topic classifications like “mommy blogger”… I think that defining ourselves (with niches and categories kind if stifles creativity and inhibits our abilities to evolve in the most authentic way. Who is to say you have to only blog about one topic anyway?

Coming to conclusions about where you fit in in the grand scheme of things is fine but doing so while you are still evolving just makes writers block even harder to work through, in my opinion. Besides, as our lives change our blogging changes. This renders those conclusions pointless anyway right?

I know many other bloggers who’ve reached this point with their lives and blogs. For me, I don’t think there is any reason to close up the blog or for me to loose friendships and connections made through the years. I mean just because your life changes doesn’t mean you have to forget everyone and everything from the past right?

So, yeah… My life and 5 year old blog are evolving, again. I have no idea which direction we are headed but we are surely going somewhere good. I hope.

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5 Comments

• maiden53 says:

  March 23, 2010 at 7:17 pm

  I STILLLLL enjoy hearing about your gardening, pets and NEVER tire of hearing and/or watching E grow and learn…..

  But I do know what you mean about the writing fluid…. it gets sucked up and away with everyday living. I think of things and by the time I get to the puter I am too tired to remember. I haven’t posted anything since the shed collapse. The work that I have ahead of me because of that is extremely overwhelming for me. It all has to be documented, each and every item. Then I have to get actual cost, when and what it will cost to replace… then, there is the contractor and appraiser issue! Then it all has to be hauled out of there, thrown out or stored and then I get a real barn… that thought is all that keeps me going.

  So I really do enjoy my moments with you, N and E
• Heather Jones says:

  March 23, 2010 at 8:55 pm

  Hey you got to blog about what is relevant to your life right? Right now my world revolves around my little boy and I wouldn’t have it any other way. When E grows up more it probably will turn back into what you had it before. But I think everyone enjoys hearing about E, at least your true friends do. Some who haven’t approached the parenthood state of life may not appreciate it as much, but its simply because they don’t know what they are missing in life. They don’t understand falling in love with this little life and getting excited over all his/her milestones. Its incredibly exciting for parents. Others who observe from afar, not so much, but this is the stage of your life that documenting your little ones adventures is fully appropriate and expected. It only happens once….at least until you have another little one.
• Donna B. says:

  March 24, 2010 at 3:24 am

  She drank, she ate, she peed, she pooped is fine as long as we get photos of the smile on her face afterwards

  Seriously, don’t stress about this (not that you actually are) because it would be completely bizarre if E’s arrival hadn’t changed the way you blog. I’m very glad you share the experience with us.
• Tanya says:

  March 24, 2010 at 8:59 am

  I’m much the same. Except my blog has evolved into an ‘I don’t have time’ whinge session.
• melissa says:

  March 24, 2010 at 4:27 pm

  I still love reading your blog even if it’s just about E and stuff you guys are doing.It makes me feel somewhat connected to you guys even though we are states away. I love reading the updates and milestones that E makes. We all get busy and kids definalty take priority over everything and most people I think would understand that. Being a mom is now your life and why not blog about it

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