Posts Tagged ‘PB and Jazz’

A few days ago, the lovely Jennifer from The Psychobabble let me know she was tagging me for a Neno award.  I’m always flattered to receive any sort of recognition from my fellow bloggers.  But I sat on this one because the ‘rules’ of it state you have to post about why you blog.

I was struggling with answering that question.

Why do I blog?  I know it’s not for glory.  It’s certainly not for money.  I do use my blog as a place to vent, a place to update friends and family on my life.  But that’s still not the ‘why’ behind the blogging.

Well tonight it hit me full in the face.

PB and Jazz wrote this post:  Learning from others.

That right there.  That is why I blog, why I share, why I write.

Because if I can help one person expand their point of view, understand people a little more deeply, be not so quick to judge, then all the time I spend putting my words down is worth it.  If I can help one parent advocate for their child, find new ways of dealing with their issues, or offer them solace in the knowledge that they aren’t alone, then I will continue to write and share.

So back to the award.

A big thanks to The Psychobabble for giving it to me and making me pause to consider this.  Sometimes it’s good to stop and remember the why behind the what.

The aims of this award:

• As a dedication for those who love blogging activity and love to encourage friendships through blogging.
• To seek the reasons why we all love blogging!

Here are the rules of the award:

• Put the award in one post as soon as you receive it.
• Don’t forget to mention the person who gives you the award.
• Answer the award’s question by writing the reason why you love blogging.
• Tag and distribute the award to as many people as you like.
• Don’t forget to notify the award receivers and put their links in your post.

And so I am choosing to tag the following people:

• PB and Jazz for writing a post that warmed my heart (and made me cry a little)
• Messponential for being real and telling it like it is
• Heart My Chloe for being brave and strong. And hawt. Can’t forget hawt.
• The Mommy Tsunami for her Intentional Happiness 365 project. We should all be so inspired

And for everyone reading, what makes you blog?  What inspires your passion for writing?

Wow, is it Friday again already?  How did that happen.  Sheesh.  I really need to set aside more time to be on here updating.

This week’s Follow Friday are the friends on Twitter who are always there with a kind word, an offer of support, and help pick you back up when you’ve had a bad day.  I might not mention these people very often, but they’re the reason I love Twitter.

Don’t forget to head over to Ali’s blog, My Life With Them, and check out the other Follow Friday’s.  And make sure to add your Follow Friday post to her link so other people can find you!

• First off I’d like to give a big shout out to Micheal at UncorruptedHost.  I first met him when we were transferring Heather Spohr’s site over to our servers after the Bluehost debacle, when he helped us out with some issues we were having with the transfer.  After things calmed down, Heather’s webmaster moved the site to what we thought was a good host.  Ummm…yeah, we were wrong.  Surpass hosting shut The Spohrs Are Multiplying down without warning this week because of traffic.  Booooo.  So Micheal stepped up and within hours had Heather back up and running and is now building her a custom server so she will never, ever have this problem again.  I can’t say enough good things about this experience.  So if you’re looking for a good hosting provider, with great customer service, and really reasonable prices, go check out Uncorrupted Hosting.
• Hardly a day goes by when I don’t get a nice comment or something that makes me laugh from Laura (McCammon1).  I always look forward to seeing what she’ll have to say.
• I love TheMaggers.  She’s hilariously funny.  And I totally wish she lived closer because I would hire her as my nanny in a heartbeat.  In the mean time I’ll just drool over her Red Velvet Cupcakes
• Ashleigh (leighish) is my weight loss inspiration.  We totally have to find a way to get her to BlogHer10 in NYC.  Or someone needs to fly me down to Texas, cause just stalking her blog isn’t doing it for me anymore.
• And last, but not least, PB and Jazz.  Her and I have a standing date to hit the Mall of America together one day.  In the mean time, I keep up to date on her crazy life here.