Being a blogger is such a personal experience that means so much to so many people. Myself included. It is my little piece of creative space, my slice of the Internet. It has been a slow journey for me. I originally started blogging in 2010 and then put my blog on hold. I then went onto to be a reviewer and editor for book.chickcity.com for five years. But I slowly got back into blogging after giving up work in 2013, and really began to really take it seriously in January 2015. I was tagged by Becky from Cuddle Fairy to explain what being a blogger means to me. So here it is.
This is what being a blogger means to me:
- It is a place for me to be creative, to write, to share and connect with like-minded people.
- I feel like there are days it saves my sanity, gives me adult time and enables me to work around my children.
- It is a learning curve, one I very much enjoy learning. But I have learnt so much and feel like it gives me a place to use some of the skills I had when I worked before I went on a ‘career break’.
- I love reading the comments I receive everyday, every single one I read and try to respond to.
- It has given me the opportunity to work with exciting brands, some of which I had never heard of before.
- It is the start of a business venture, which is immensely small at the moment, but I hope it will grow.
- It also has ended up helping my second business to as a Cambridge Weight Plan Consultant, with people contacting me because they have read my blog. Which is amazing.
- I have made friends all over the world and cannot wait to meet some of them face to face.
- I hope that in years to come I will enjoy reading back through the diary of events I have shared about my children. The little things that I will have forgotten.
- It has become a family project with my husband blogging weekly too and even my son asks me – do you want to take a picture for Facebook or the blog? 🙂
- Being a blogger is a special thing, something that comes from the heart.
I would like to tag the following bloggers to take part if you wish to 🙂 .
Franca from A Moment with Franca
Gemma from Confessions of a Nagging Mother
Jess from Mrs. Puddleducky
What does being a blogger mean to you?
It’s amazing how much blogging brings to the table. I am sure your blog will be a huge success – it definitely comes from your heart & I love reading your posts. Thank you for taking part 🙂 x
Thank you for such a lovely comment Becky, it is indeed amazing what blogging brings to the table and means so much to so many people.
Thank you for the tag! 🙂 This is a lovely post as it tells me a little bit more about you and how you feel about blogging. It is so nice to be able to combine your 2 different worlds (mummy and blogging) into one. Love the possibility of being able to get out with my family and have fun in order to do a review. This is amazing! I love blogging too! It is so important that is has brought you so many positive things. I will tag you when my post is finished! 🙂 x
I look forward to reading your post Franca. So many people love blogging and sharing things that are really important which is why I enjoy it so much.
Love this Laura! Many of your reasons are the same as mine… I just love the fact that I have this little space on the WWW that I can write and express myself in any way I please!
Thank you for tagging me lovely 🙂 I will do mine in a few days 🙂
Gemma xxxx
I agree my own little space of creativity 🙂
I look forward to reading yours Gemma x
Blogging is such a great way to learn more about ourselves and find people who have similar experiences who say “me, too” 🙂
It really is 🙂 and I think it helps a lot of mother maintain their sanity too x
Loved this post. I agree on lots of your points, I already love looking back on past posts! Your blog is gorgeous BTW, I love how it all ties together.
Becky x
Thank you so much Becky I worked with a lovely illustrator to get the look of my blog right and I love it 🙂
I think you’re right the past posts are going to be such a lovely journal x
Lovely post Laura, blogging is such a great journey for so many. I had no idea want fun it would be and how special it would become in my life! Thanks for tagging me, I have just got back from our hold so will write in next few days x
Hope you have a lovely holiday and no problem. Yes I had no idea that my blogging life would become this but I am loving it 🙂