Comments on: A title would be nice

By: Sarah @ BecomingSarah.com

Sarah @ BecomingSarah.com — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:48:47 +0000

I saw this the other day, but had trouble commenting, so here we go again! COME ON, COMPUTER, LET’S MAKE THIS WORK!

What I wanted to say was that I know, kind of, sort of, a little bit, how you feel. Although I’ve only had BecomingSarah.com since, I don’t know, March or so, I wrote a blog somewhere else for years. Years and years and years, and then somebody in my real life found it and suddenly it just didn’t hold the appeal it once did. I couldn’t be the same sort of honest and I felt bogged down by that little slice of the Internet, when it should have been freeing. I would look back through my archives and not recognize the stories I wrote down because I’d omitted so much information. So I stopped, closed up shop, called it quits.

It was a good two years before I started my current blog. And even though I have the same problem as before with my family and friends, I find that if I exaggerate to high heavens, I can write peripherally about the real stuff and just tell them not to take it too seriously. That really helps alot and it works for me.

Whatever you decide to do and whatever works for you and this blog, I wish you luck. Knowing how to go forward with blogging can sometimes be incredibly tough, but it will get better. Kudos to you for making the choice that you have, and I wish you all the strength in the world to stick to it =) It’s hard, but I’m sure it will be worth it.

By: Cameron

Cameron — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:39:31 +0000

have i ever directed you to mimismartypants.com? there’s a story in the october 5th entry you’ll appreciate.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:55:50 +0000

Good for you. And I do understand. I am completely crappy at posting lately. My depression has been getting the best of me, and instead of writing about it like I used to, I curl into a little ball and do nothing.

Hopefully that’s going to start getting better.

I’m proud of you though.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:31:35 +0000

Keep writing. Everyone knows life sucks and that its hard. We don’t expect everything to be perfect all the time. No matter what you have written in other posts; it is always a bright spot in my day. Its a connection that I can have with you since we don’t get to talk. I look forward to reading your blog and to read the shenanigans that Avelyn has been up to or to here what dumb yet sweet thing Kevin has done yet again. The days that you have a new blog up are normally the days that I enjoy quite a bit. You writing is very real in everyway. Even when you sugar coat it people can relate. Keep it up! There are alot of people out there that look forward to your blog and eat up the words just like you do for others blogs.

By: Futureblackmail

Futureblackmail — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:42:27 +0000

One of the hardest things for me to accept was that I make mistakes and people can learn from them.

I decided a long time ago that although my MIL and my Mom and my husband and DCS (yes, you read correctly, DCS-I volunteered it to them to help us get custody of my stepkids) read my blog, I will be honest. I will write what I feel because it’s my space and nobody can tell me how to feel or that what I feel is wrong.

It’s been liberating and scary but it’s honest.

Kudos to you for figuring it out!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:47:00 +0000

Oh Jennifer, one of my favorite posts. I’ve vented on here plenty about how I’m a better mom because I work. And how in the early days when Claire’s reflux was so bad that I cried and cried and literally could not take care of her and had to call my mom over to watch her. And how my husband is a complete idiot and helps me NONE unless I ask him, and then one day he’ll surprise the crap out of me and have all the laundry done and folded and put away – not the right way – but HIS way. And many a times I’ve hit publish and thought “what is the blog world going to think about me???” Then I realized that the ‘blog world’ are really strangers. And I really don’t CARE what they think about me. If you don’t like it, don’t read it. And my IRL readers, they are my best friends and they already know the ups and downs of my life.

Keep postin girl – I love your sarcasm and real life stories. And yes, the pictures of Avelyn can brighten a day when your own little Angel acted more like the devil this weekend than the Angel that we all know she is ( :

By: Clarissa

Clarissa — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:24:14 +0000

This is def in the top 5 best posts.

I too wish that I could write with no abandon and know that I don’t give a rip about what my mother or grandmother or whomever (I think that’s about the sum of my readership) is going to see. Good for you!

And p.s. baby pictures still totally rock my world!

P.s.s. I think you need to move to WF and work at URHCS with me at night. Oh my gracious the trouble we would get into!

By: Carla B.

Carla B. — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:58:58 +0000

Pretzels and brownies!?!? Tay and I are coming right over! Life is crazy, being a mom is a hell of a rollar coaster that is your life forever. I wish you and your family a great week!