The Next Generation

I speak of blogging like I've been doing it for 10 years -- but it seems like bloggers work in dog years. Almost two years of blogging is like 14 years in real time. And in that time, I'm always amazed that for the most part, we all don't blog about the same topic. Perhaps the sentiment is there, particularly when we all decide to beat up Meredith Viera (for good reason) and the Alterna movement, but for the most part, we talk about the various facets of motherhood with a decent level of originality.

And for something that involves a staggering amount of repetition, that's pretty damn good.

But then someone writes something that resonates with you and reminds you of how you felt when you wrote about the same topic. And why you started your blog. It's clearly not repetition, but more an echoing of the feelings of many mothers that are writing their worlds on a blog.

Regardless of how we got into motherhood and how we're doing with it now, we all realize at one point or another that it's hard, and it's nothing like what we expected. It's gratifying and scary. And everything in between. And we wonder why no one told us it was going to be like this. I mean seriously, if we knew that we were going to have to push that baby out of us, then chances are we could handle knowing about how hard it was really going to be.

So that's why I started my blog -- to tell my story of motherhood. All of it. And apparently, I wasn't alone.

Congrats Jen, on your perfect post, and for telling your story. It's mine, and yours, and all of ours.

And thanks to Dawn, who kindly awarded me my first ever Perfect Post Award. To read it, and the others, visit Lindsay (the best looking post-partum mother of a 10lb + baby) or MommaK.

Comments

[Redneck Mommy]

Congratulations on your perfect post!

And nice choice for awarding one.

[Heather]

Congratulations Jennifer!

[SuburbanOblivion]

Congrats Jen!!!!

[Jennifer]

Thanks again, Kristen. This is quite an honor.

And congratulations on YOUR perfect post...well deserved!

[cce]

Congrats on your Perfect Post award. See...your feelings of "what am I doing with my life" are ill founded. You are entertaining us and that's good enough.