just yesterday i realised that i hit my 5 years blogging anniversary in mid-may.five years.that's an awful lot of words.and a lot of images. of course.
1200 posts. twelve hundred.
what i do know is that, whilst i had no idea where blogging would take me - nor exactly what i would write about....,i do feel that it's taken me along a path that very possibly i would not have been on had i not done it.
london/new york city....where i live vs. where my inner 25 yr old single girl self livesit's been a positive, life enhancing, eye-opening joy of a ride....introducing me to things i've never heard ofmaking me question & think about so many things,i've met a lot of wonderful people....and i've moved from wanting a fairly traditional home to yearning for an all-white house....
thank you pinterest ;)
it seems very odd to think that when i started blogging 5 years ago, pinterest didn't even exist!!
a friend said to me recently that when she thought of my blog, she didn't think of writing, she thought of imagery....i think that my blog has enough of both.
of course it is full of images, it pretty much always has been....
but the beauty of blogging remains that "it's-your-blog-you-can-do-what-you-like-with-it" sometimes, it's all about the pictures, sometimes i write what's in my heart & on my mind.
one of the great things about having your own blog & a space to write, is that it allows you to process thoughts & opinions, allowing you discover what you really feel about something.
i believe that beautiful things both inspire & comfort...be they words, views, faces or a gorgeous home.
blogging has given me some really fun challenges & opportunities and, these days, it earns me some £££ too....i am a full-time mother/part-time blogger & i love the balance that gives me.
my blog gives me a space to try things out, share ideas & inspiration, run my thoughts past anyone kind enough to listen, get the stuff that's filling up my brain on to paper....it gives me clarityoften it simply enables me to exhale.
i am pretty careful regarding what i write about my children - but when my daughter was being bullied at school 18 months ago & we were really having the most terrible time at home, i shared it on my blog....it was the best thing that i could have done....i received truly the most wonderful & heartfelt responses....blog & facebook comments & emails from people i knew & from strangers.
i could go on & go on about the wonderfulness of having your own blog simply because it has been so good for me. it gave me an outlet to be me when i first began it as a mother of preschool toddler & now it continues to be just that, even though now my life is different in a multitude of ways.it says a lot about my blog that i still can't imagine not doing it, of it not being part of my day.
blogging has allowed me to grow, to learn more about myself....simply to be more of myself.and that has to be a good thing.
to everyone who reads my blog, a huge thank you.
to those who leave the most amazing/supportive/funny/ helpful comments....thank you, thank you, thank you.
i've only experienced kindness & positivity on my blog, not one negative comment ever....i hope my blog reflects that.
to those who have been there since the beginning, you probably know who you are....Cathi, Amanda, Jackie, Tracy, Lori, Kim, Ziz, Lara, Marisa, Liz, Debra, Millie....
to the bloggers that i have been lucky enough to meet....Jeanne, Vicki, Jackie, Lou, Melissa, Meredith, Ange - every single one them as wise & beautiful as i knew they would be.
and to Louise who i have to mention specifically....we met through blogging, have met up just once, have children of similar ages, text frequently & are so often on the same page in our lives, it's quite uncanny at times.i've met more than one blogger who has actually asked if we were the same person or if i wrote both blogs!!
immensely flattering for me, since she is the way way smarter, more eloquent, much better dressed, well read & more cerebral part of our friendship who encourages/listens/gets it & gives me a push when i need it.
i didn't plan for this to be such a long post....but that's blogging, sometimes stuff just needs to be said....and when i do write, i am seemingly unable to use 10 words where 100 will do ;)
thank you for reading.simone xo
