I have been watching people promoting their blogs for the upcoming SA Blog awards with mixed feelings.
My first instinct is to scoff at the whole thing. To regard it as a popularity contest of sorts. Which, with my reputation for making unpopular (but true) statements, would put me right at the end of the line.
My second instinct is to feel utterly petrified. I know my blog is read by a number of people. Several people have actually subscribed to it, so it can’t be all that bad. (Fair enough, most of them are long-suffering friends, but still!) I really hate competing with other people in any shape or form. I suck at it. I have flashbacks of being in a sales job I was quite spectacularly bad at and cost me a whole lot of self-confidence and self-belief.
My last instinct was to re-examine my reasons for blogging and whether it has changed in the almost 2 years I have been exposing my failures and fears and all the love and fun we have. Oh, and the odd parenting win. My reasons are still the same: to document our children’s progression through life so we don’t forget a thing. So there is a legacy of sorts. Along the way it has become necessary for me to write on a daily basis, it’s cathartic. And I get to catch up with some new amazing friends I have made along the way.
So, this is my blog. This is my life as a Mom and a Wife. If it entertains you or makes you laugh or makes you feel better because you had a bad day, please nominate me?
There, I did it. A little bit of sucking up and a little bit of self-promotion.
Gulp.
You are worth promoting chickadee!
Now that wasn’t so hard was it? 🙂 I love your blog precisely because you are the genuine article, the real deal – a mum getting on with doing the best for her children and being fabulous. You’ve got my vote.
Oh that’s what those badges are about, now I get it! I’m completely uncompetitive so know where you’re coming from. Just enjoy your blog for the reasons you already said, and hey if you get nominated or whatever it’s a bonus. (Do you win a big prize? Think I’ll go find out more!)
lol 🙂 agree with LL! its because you are a real and honest mum that i love your blog too!
well, that and the fact that your kids are just too cute for words! 🙂
Awesome lady, well done. Funny how the self-promotion is so hard for some and so easy for others. Every day I look at my blog and must fight the urge to take the badge off cos I feel silly. But that’s dof. We do what we do because we love it, the rest is just icing.
Nice one! I do enjoy reading your posts and trying endlessly to tell your girls apart.
Suck up might have worked…
Yay, I’m a religious readers of your blog and you deserve to be nominated!
I read and look forward to your posts exactly because you tell it like it is. The fact that you have 3 very handsome/beautiful children helps of course! 😀 I nominated you. xx
Love you and your posts…advertise away…lol
I got an email from SA Blog Awards yesterday, asking me to confirm or something. When I tried to register, it told me my registration wasn’t successful 🙁
Oh well, I’m not competitive at all, so if I get in, I get in!
I love reading your blog because most days I feel as though I could have written it myself! Your experiences are so similar to mine some days, it’s scary. And you capture the whole thing like a ‘real’ mom 🙂
You deserve being nominated! And you’re right, it’s not about awards, it’s about sharing our days and eventually having a wonderful record of the things we would have forgotten by the time we’re 70!
You’ve got it right Tania!! I feel just the same!! By the way I value and love your opinions!!
Thanks 🙂
Mwah! And honored to be your friend 🙂
Thank you so much LL!
To be honest, I have no idea whether there are any prizes. But apparently there is some supper at the One and Only for the Top 10 in every category. That’s prize enough!
I agree, they are cute, thanks! (but I might be slightly biased 🙂
I’ll leave more clues in future 🙂
I knew you would completely understand thanks!
MWah mwah mwah, thank you so much!!
Love you madly Shazzie, thanks so much!
Thanks 🙂
I feel exactly the same about your blog!! I also got that email, must still check it out
Love your blog. A lot.
And of course I’ll nominate you..x
I agree!
I also love you. A Lot! And thank you!