I was surfing around some new blogs the other day, well new to me, and came across someone giving "tips" on blogging one of which was not to blog the negative stuff, to keep it light and positive. I'm afraid I don't agree. The blogs I really love to follow are the ones who talk about all aspects of their lives, the ups and the downs. And I think on the whole these people are fairly positive people. I'm not as clever as some of the bloggers out there, my life isn't all that interesting, I don't have a "theme" or an angle, I just blog it as I see it and it works for me. As today has shown.
I woke up feeling down, the dreary weather has returned and the weather people are predicting lots more rain to come. Sick of fighting with the kids to get them out of bed and to school, so they're home today. Em isn't well anyway and Josh can have a reprieve from his miserable school life till Monday. Sick of being a single parent most of the time. Had a few tears, stayed in bed and got to thinking about my old blog and how it documented some pretty bad times for us last year before we moved up here. I spent some time reading over it. Life's not so bad. It won't kill the kids to have a day off school, they won't end up uneducated derelicts living on the streets. The world won't end if I stay in bed till 1pm. I have to get up eventually to go and post Kate's 21st present and get some supplies (read wine). Tonight we'll get pizza and hang out, the three of us, and know we have things to look forward to, the end of term in three weeks and our trip to Melbourne and Phill actually having to stay home for two weeks because the company makes them take holidays.
I blog for me, even though I appreciate my few readers and their comments, but I do it for me and it helps me enormously as well as being a record of my kids' growing up and of our family life. I've blogged for over ten years in one form or another and a lot of it I have kept and one day will print out. There is a company online, who for a reasonable fee, will print out a blog into a book.
And I think I'll go out and tell Josh he can use the computer after all. He might learn something. I know I did today.
5 comments:
when I started out blogging almost 6 years ago I was here only to piss off republicans and evangelical Christians...Bush was in power and I was having a mini stroke a day..I've mellowed some but I found that along the way, I told my entire life story.ha..so now everyone knows the truth about me..every thing..i find that very humorous.
i love reading about the real people i follow....like you. i blog for me and for my kids.....they have never asked me questions that i know will cross their minds after i am gone. and i dream of sharing dinner and a glass of wine with you someday.
I blog for me first and every so often i do a print out of the last three or so months - so it has become a sort of journal which I put into a ring binder...a scattered journal but a journal no less - and i enjoy reading blogs like yours which are just about ordinary/extraordinary people
I agree with you 100%. Who wants to read a bunch of sappy, fake upbeat nonsense? Real life is much more interesting.
I love how your blog is real and true. You are honest and grounded, while being a great cook.
Life cant be good all the time, unless you are lying to yourself and you certainly don't do that
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