(there are zero links to other bloggers or pictures in this post … I’ll get to that tomorrow)

Kerri Jackson if you are going to read this … don’t be too harsh. I only added a few things I forgot but haven’t “cleaned it up”. *wink*

tIn all honesty, the best thing about Bloggy boot camp was meeting SO MANY fantastic women. Not bloggers. Other women. Moms, sisters, wives, daughters. Women. That’s what it all boils down to. Family and Friends.

There was a TON of fantastic talk about scheduling, SEO optimization, privacy, photography, working with brands, deciding what YOUR brand is and pure luck. It wasn’t all new for me but it refreshed my memory and has caused me to sit back and think. Again.

I mentioned all this in my ABOUT ME page but here it is. Again. I started a website back in 1999/2000. That was long before I knew what “blogging” was. I wanted a place to put down my thoughts and meet other people. If that happened. It was cool to see my site counter grow. (even thought I think half of it was ME) I had no idea who was visiting me but people knew me. That website has since been lost in cyberspace. I’ve tried searching for the archives and have failed.

Then I got married and my husband had a personal domain. I took that over withe wedding pictures and our wedding story. (crap. I need to find that and share it here. . .. Ooooops)

Along came baby. All along I documented my pregnancy in a pregnancy forum journal but wanted something I could update easily and that wasn’t private, only visible to forum subscribers…

I found babyjellybeans but that was really pricey. I wanted THAT, but on our server. A friend told me about LiveJournal and someone there told me about blogspot and then I found wordpress.

I’ve been blogging on wordpress for several years now.

It was about 2-3 years ago that I discovered so many other people do this. Who would have known. I was busy taking care of my son and keeping an online journal for him that I didn’t know that many others did it too. I guess part of the problem was I never got but one or two random comments from people that I already knew.

My comment numbers and views are still pretty low. That’s ok. I follow who I want when I can and I assume others do the same.

I realized that I MIGHT want to work with a company someday if the right one comes along. I would LOVE to speak to other bloggers, some day, about why I blog, but I’m not going to make it my priority. I wouldn’t complain if I became as BIG as some of the BIG SHOTS, but that’s not what drives me to blog. It’s NOT the numbers.

My kids do. I don’t really want that to change because this is FOR THEM. It’s for my grandkids. It’s for me.

That’s it.

I don’t mind sharing it but the bottom line is that I do it for me.