4/21/2010 - a throw-back (with an update below)
Why do I blog?
A friend asked me this a few weeks ago. Actually she asked how I decided to start blogging.
How did I decide to start blogging? Well, my friend Elissa pointed me to Soulemama.com and I started reading her blog and Elissa's blog,
and I thought - people like to read these, they are inspired and encouraged.
I like to write. I like to inspire and encourage people.
And I know the greatest Inspiration and Encourager - and I could share Him.
So - I started blogging.
And then, I realized how many of my friends from far away could read about what I have going on.
And right away - in the first month or two - I had people that I knew and people I had never met
tell me that what I wrote had inspired or encouraged them.
And that was SO encouraging to me!
I look at my blog as really a way to be a witness and a testimony.
And it is a way that I am encouraged.
I look for the best - the bits of sunshine in my days.
And I know that if I am having a low, I have people out there will remind me of the bits of sunshine.
It's SO good!
And I read so many other mamas who stay home with their familys
and make their homes be a place of peace and comfort.
And even if all our ideas and ideals don't match up,
it's really nice to know that there are people - all over - who love their familys
and see their homes as a haven
and make do with all sort of interesting thrifty ways of life -
and make it all beautiful.
It is so fun to be inspired and in turn be an inspiration -
for wife-ing and mama-ing and home-making and home-schooling and playing and living.
And it is my prayer that Jesus shines through me and my blog, always.
4/21/2022
and here i am in 2022, twelve years later, and a thousand posts later . . . sometimes blogging, sometimes putting thoughts and pictures together on instagram, connecting with friends in real life and through text and on facebook, and sometimes, still on this blog.
i learned so much from the other bloggers i read in those early days. i found recipes and sewing patterns and book suggestions and lesson plans in the blogs that i read. i had stay-at-home moms to learn from, some who were home because of church expectations, but more who were home because that was where they wanted to be. i found community - a community that extended to flickr and then onto instagram - a community of encouragement - a community who has encouraged me to grow. and our on-line interactions have turned into snail mail and texts and phone calls and real-life meet-ups.
i blog for community, for connection, and to keep record of our days.