This past week marked one year since I began blogging. That’s roughly 110 posts, 1400 comments, and 29,000 hits since I wrote my first post, How Starting a Blog Is Like Having Twins.
And, just like we considered lots of names for Vivian and William (such as Elizabeth, Eva, Acacia, Helen, as well as Isaac, Miles, Oscar, Jackson), I mulled over lots of names for my blog before settling on Ironic Mom. Some of the throw-aways were Mom on the Edge, Edgy Mama, Snarky Mom, and Moxie Mama.
There were also runners up for my blog’s motto. Before I settled on “If you can’t laugh at yourself, laugh at your children,” I considered several subtitles. These were my top five contenders:
- Ironic Mom: a non-pharmaceutical form of birth control
- Ironic Mom: if you can’t scrapbook, blog
- Ironic Mom: painfully funny truths about parenting
- Ironic Mom: celebrating mediocrity
- Ironic Mom: using laughter as an anti-depressant
For better or for worse, all these mottos still hold true.
But perhaps what I’ve learned from blogging this past year was expressed by Vivian earlier today when she was teaching me how to draw. “First,” she says, “you need to know all the details of the world.” Within that statement is a truth I’ve learned: blogging helps me to notice the details, whether funny, painful, or bizarre.
Thanks for coming along for the ride. But hold on, because it ain’t over yet.
Did the picture come with the blog? Hope you bought yourself a cake and ate all of it!
I regularly eat all the chocolate in my house…
Happy bloggoversary 😀
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YOU GO GIRL!!!!!!!
Thanks, ES!
It’s really true: blogging tunes you into the greater world so you notice the funny, the strange, the painful, etc…. You nailed it! It’s really an amazing thing.
Congrats!
Thanks, H!
Good for you for being able to stick with a motto – I can’t bear to commit! (And congrats on 1 year – it’s crazy how time flies, eh?)
I stick to things because I’m too lazy to change them… 😉
congrats on your one year blog-aversary! look forward to more posts! ♥
Thanks!
Congratulations! I love reading your blog, Keep writing! You rock.
How much linear feet of police tape have you used since starting your blog? Do you just buy in bulk at the law enforcement warehouse?
Congrats on a year. Glad I found Ironic Mom; a person can never smile or laugh too much (or read too much quality writing).
I look forward to the print edition…
Thanks, Chase. Regarding the police tape: I stole some off my neighbor’s lawn after Halloween. He’s a police officer… and my friend, thankfully. I’ve also robbed a bank (but the only thing I took was an outdated telephone book).
You picked everything just right. Love the police tape celebration. So true about noticing more when you’ve got yourself on deadline. Great job and looking forward to year #2!