So I started a blog...

I resisted initially. And really, it's only been recently that I've even been a reader of blogs. But I've stumbled across a few I've found very helpful & plugged them into one of my favorite apps- flipboard. It's the "mommy blogs" that I find the most helpful, but even as I read them occasionally I wonder "how does she do it?  How does this woman with many children homeschool, care for her husband & home, run her business from her home, grow all her own produce, spend negative amounts of money by using coupons AND find time to blog about it all?!?" Okay, I was being a bit sarcastic, but that's how it feels sometimes when I look at the beautiful blogs with their nice pictures and nifty tips. Then I look across at the couch almost hidden under the laundry and think how I'd like to get it all folded and put away and have supper ready to serve when my husband walks in the door, but the baby fusses every time I put him down and when he's asleep I spend the time meeting need after need of the other four children and that is just normal LIFE! I don't have a special Pinterest project to blog about today and I didn't make homemade laundry soap and I don't have any coupons (although I would love to be doing all those things). What do I have to blog about? And how can I justify blogging when I'm struggling to get my first priority responsibilities taken care of?

(Okay, that sounded pretty negative. I'm sorry. It gets better, I won't stop until it does. )

Well, my husband helped me out with this. He gave me quite a list of reasons it's a good thing to do. And I thought of a few to add to the list.

1. It's a way to encourage. Stay at home moms have found a voice through blogging. We can encourage each other, learn from & teach one another.  Moms from all over the world can fulfill the Titus 2 call without ever leaving their homes & -with discipline- without neglecting first priorities.

2. It's a way to have a community. Moms who may never meet face to face can be in a community together. Moms who have met can keep in touch. Motherhood can be lonely even when we are NEVER alone. It helps to know we aren't alone in the daily uphill battle that motherhood sometimes feels like. We are all facing similar days, or we have or we will.

3. It's a way to remember.

4. It's a way to share Christ and His story for the world. "For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him." 2 Corinthians 5:21 NKJV

Our youngest two-the "babies" (note the perpetual laundry couch in the background:-)

So those are some of the reasons I decided to take the plunge and start a blog.
 

My blogging friend Emily has a lot to do with it too:-)