Add it to my resume, I have become a Blogger….


I’m not sure how to even start this post. To state the obvious, I have decided to start a blog. Really a blog about nothing – yet everything at the same time. I, by no means will be the blogger that is famous, gets tweeted about or gets posts read on the Ellen show or shows up in the Huffington Post, but I hope that my ramblings will not only be an outlet for my own feelings and crazy emotions but also just may be a place where if anything other moms (or people in general) can go and read to feel better about themselves! Ha.

I do not know how to write “blog posts”, but I know that I love to write. Ever since I was a little girl, I secretly kept journals. I recently in the past year found them in my nightstand drawer; I revisited all my feelings of the past and then threw them all away. I guess I was worried someone would come across them (like my husband) and read them. There was nothing secret at all in them, nothing that he doesn’t know. If anyone knows us (my husband and I) they know we are brutally honest with one another. I’m sure there isn’t one secret we keep from each other – almost to a fault.  ESPECIALLY after three kids – he knows WAAAAY too much about me. But, for some reason, I am shy about my thoughts in the written form. So, it actually is so ironic that my husband and I had casual conversations and I suddenly perked up and said “I’m gonna write a blog”, and he quickly encouraged me, purchased the domain and website and now will have open access to my thoughts, feelings and emotions in the written form. He will, and the whole world potentially. With this said, I have given A LOT of thought about how to filter my thoughts and feelings not to offend people who read (such as my grandmother, mother, mother in law) yet, be completely raw, real and candid. Then, I snap out of the caring too much and realize I will probably offend someone at some time and that is okay, because my whole life I think I have given too much care and thought about other people’s feelings and neglected my own.

So, I wish I could tell you exactly what this blog will be about. I wish right now I could tell you, so you could figure out if during your late nights of social media scrolling and looking at my blog posts will be worth your time to read what I have to say or a waste of 3-5 minutes which you will never get back. But, I can’t, sorry. It will be completely random, as my thoughts and days are often nothing but chaos. I do hope, however, in my writing I will find my outlet and you perhaps as the reader and as a person will laugh at me, with me or even find comfort in reading that one thought that came to you ‘exactly when you needed it the most’.

Please feel free to share my site with friends or family too.

….One post down, a lifetime to go.


54 responses to “Add it to my resume, I have become a Blogger….”

  1. Kristen…this is perfect for you! Count me in as a regular, I’ve always been a fan of your sarcastic, honest and often funny way of saying things! You remind me of my own thoughts a long time ago and it has been so much fun to go back and visit the places I thought I would never want to remember!
    If this works for you let me know, I’d love to start one of my own (the Baby Boomer version)! As a women I think it’s important to share our thoughts, when I read what others are thinking I realize I’m not alone out here!

    • Ah! Jeanne Reed!
      I remember many a day working together and us saying we should host a talk show! Maybe this is just a fun different way to do so!