My blog isn’t much of a “mommy blog”. I don’t really feel like I talk that much about my kids. My youngest is 8 and they up to 11 and 13 from there. They have long passed these milestones that people are recording in their blogs.
Sometimes I wish I had been blogging when they were little. I was on message boards, but I’m discovering that it’s not the same as carving out my own piece of the internet.
Random strangers congratulated me on the birth of my youngest. More strangers saw me through that first year, and my husband leaving for a travel job. I turned to the boards for adice, support, wisdom. I relayed funny stories. Now, all of that is gone. Message boards change and fall. Posts get deleted. Whole groups disapear. People come and go. And you really have no control over any of it.
My 11yr old daughter will ask me every now and then…”Remember when I….?” and some times I don’t. It would be great to have archives to read through and laugh and remember that funny story.
The current trend seems to be Down with Mommy Bloggers. The critics say that these moms are pimping out their kids for a paycheck. While it’s true that some moms make a good profit off their blogs, many more don’t make a dime, or make just enough to cover their domain costs. No, more so these women are leaving behind easily retrievable memories. When their kids say “Remember when….” not only can they say “yes I remember”, but they can take their kids to the computer and relive the event through their blog.
The Baby Book has found a new medium.
2 responses to “Baby Blogging”
LisaS
May 19th, 2008 at 23:10
i did the message board thing too, but luckily i had–and still have–a lovely group of ladies who moved from one bb to a private board, and we’re mostly still together 9+ years later. i printed the really momentous posts for baby books … not that i actually will ever get it put together!
it’s nice to find a mom with kids older than mine! i’ll be looking to you for advice!
Tiffany
June 14th, 2008 at 08:20
I too have older kids (ages 6, 11 and 13). I blog about my kids a lot, but that is because I blog about my life. I also belong to a message board, a couple of them actually. I started the message board life when my youngest was only a couple months old. I left that board and started a board of my own when she was almost a year and that board is still up and running. I have made wonderful friends that way. I spent a couple of hours going back and cut and pasting entries about my kids from 2002 through now into my current blog. This way I always have a diary of them. I wish I would have been able to do that for the first year of my youngest’s life, but that message board is closed down. I love my blog. Even though I don’t have many readers (I can probably count them on one hand) I will always have this to show how my life went way back when.