Writing this blog has been one of the biggest blessings in my life since I have had children.
{ Stick with me for today's post... I may ramble, but I'll get around to my point eventually. }
"I'd like to think that the longer I blog, the wiser I become, about real life and online life, too. "
I would make the same statement today, too. I do think that I'm blogging smarter, using my time more wisely, and learning so much about "real" life, as well.
I have made SO MANY friends whom I learn from and share ideas with ~ the interactions in this miniscule corner of the internet have been amazing to me. I look back at old posts and see friends I've now had for nearly three years.
My blog is entering a new season now.
- Joining the iHomeschool Network and writing a 10 Days series changed the way I looked at blogging.
- Homegrown Learners welcomed its first sponsor (thank you, Maestro Classics!) last week.
- A new section of the blog has been created. Music Notebooking Printables is a page I would like to update weekly.
- I've started writing in other places.
When bloggers wrote about "managing their online time" and basically speaking of their blogs as a business I never quite got that. I couldn't understand how these busy moms (especially the homeschooling ones!) had time for everything.
I thought that surely they must not be doing their jobs as homeschooling moms.... and that they certainly couldn't have a life outside of their blogs. I'm ashamed to admit I thought this way. I apologize to the bloggers out there who successfully juggle so much each day.
I never ceased to be amazed at God's perfect timing ~ and abundant grace. Every blog post and every interaction online has shaped me into the blogger I am today... and He's continuing to shape me into the servant He wants me to be.
That person is learning to be:
- a better steward of her time
- a more patient and forgiving wife, mother, and friend
- increasingly humble
- a more intent listener and less of a talker
- less judgmental (that's a biggie for me)
All this rambling is to say that I'm thinking about my blog differently now.
Yes, it is still my online scrapbook and a way for me to document our days.
But, it is also a way for me to be a Homeschool Ambassador , give and receive homeschool ideas, and yes... make a little extra money. It also causes me to stay up WAY to late.....
More importantly, it's a tool I'm using to further something about which I feel very strongly.... HOME EDUCATING! If you're reading my blog for the first time, welcome and I hope you'll subscribe to Homegrown Learners! If you're one of my friends who reads this on a regular basis - THANK YOU! You have no idea the way you have enriched me and shaped me these past three years.
How has blogging affected you? What have been the blessings (and/or curses?) you have experienced?
