Why Blogging Works for Me
October 28, 2009
Lately a few online blogging friends and acquaintances have taken mini sabbaticals or are re-evaluting the role of blogging in their lives and the time it takes them (mostly how to limit the time it takes them).
All these "time spent blogging" posts got me thinking about my own creative commitment to FIMBY and questioning if it is a good use of time; blog soul searching. Damien and I are very intentional about our lives. We give a lot of thought and discussion to how we spend our time (and money). So my blogging "investment" is something we have talked about, lots. Last year in November I wrote a post about why I blog. I was contemplating the same thing during that season also. I've noticed this about myself, my inner reflective life is very cyclical.
Because I've given it so much thought I know why I blog and why it's important to me.
5 Reasons blogging works for me:
- I am a stay at home homeschooling mama who (like so many) gardens, crafts and cooks. My brain is overflowing with ideas, questions and and unique challenges relating to my current station in life and I find blogging is a great avenue to express those.
- I am a photographer and blogging gives me a place to showcase my work. To tell the world "this is what I can do". This has led to bartering for things our family wants; dance lessons for Brienne and pottery for the kids & I being the two most recent. {Want to know why I barter and not sell my services? Please read why I blog.}
- I am a writer and blogging helps me to improve at this craft. I get to see my writing published and feel the satisfaction of a job well done in an arena other than kitchen work!
- I am a wife to a man with goals and dreams for our shared future. Plans that involve adventure, writing, photography, living simply and making connections with people beyond our immediate community. Blogging, both here and at ADVENTUREinPROGRESS moves us forward in those goals.
- I am a daughter, sister and friend who lives very far from most of my family, my closest relatives living 11 hours drive away. Blogging is a way to share our life with the people we love both near and far.
So you see blogging isn't just a little hobby of my mine to keep mommy sane at home with three kiddos all day, though somedays it certainly does that! It's a piece of building an integrated life and it's helping our family reach our goals both individually and together. And that works for me.
