Here A Blog, There A Blog, Everywhere a Blog Blog

I just decided that I jumped on the Blog Wagon a bit to late. In the last 2 months, I have gotten emails from 4 people letting me know they have started Mommy blogs. I also got an email from a friend who likes my writing, suggesting I start a blog. Attached to his email was a video about a blogging mom who is now making money blogging, and getting cool free things, even a washer & dryer! (I should add, it was the front loading kind, AND the red model!) I couldn't help but wondering after seeing that video if maybe that is why everyone is suddenly getting so passionate about blogging.

I remember a few years ago an acquaintance showed me what was soon to be her blog. It was a computer screen with fluffy clouds in a bright happy sky, but that was it. I didn't even know what a blog was, and as she excitedly told me how she was going to blog about parenting & the life of a mother, I was thinking to myself " That's greeeeeeeeeat, uh ha, yeah!" I didn't get it, but that's me! Always a day late & dollar short picking up on the newest trends.

About a year ago, when I was on bed rest with my last pregnancy I decided I would keep a blog as a sort of journal, and managed to set it up. Then, it disappeared. I was never able to find it again after my first entry. Lost in cyberspace, or so I thought. I have to add that I am not computer illiterate, just blog illiterate, and I still am! That is why it is even more confusing to me that I am attempting to blog now. Once I decided to go for it again I set things up so I could start-a-blogging. After all, it could mean freebies for me, and my family..lol. After setting up my new blog, I noticed the most bizarre thing. Suddenly, my old blog, from September of 2008 appeared. I still haven't quite figured out how, or why, but here it is...linked to my new blog account.

That explains that.

What it doesn't explain is who is going to read all of our blogging if everyone is busy blogging themselves? Things have gotten complicated and there is a possibility that things could get ugly! How many blogs does the average person have time to follow? Can you blog, and follow blogs successfully? I am afraid I might subconsciously or accidentally steal someones blog idea if I read to many blogs and make me unoriginal.

Does anyone get together for coffee and donuts anymore, or is it just easier to sit in front of our computers and blog? After all, that doesn't require that we leave the house. We don't have to pack up every necessity that the baby's or kids might need, and everybody else's kids won't be a threat or a harm to our little angel while we snack on krispy cremes and increase the size of our rear ends.! We can just sit down while Jr. is napping & blow off steam by blogging away. I guess I'm not really sure about technology & what it is doing to our society and the "human" side of people. Do most people still have a human side? If they do, I'm sure I can read all about it in a blog somewhere.