I read The Meanest Mom's blog every day. She is so dang funny! She was reviewed by another blog (an irreverent one, BTW) and they gave her props for being unorthodox, charming, and witty. In the review, they mentioned many different types of mommy bloggers and I got to thinking about which category I fit into.
"It really irks Miss Missives when every woman who has had humans spring forth from her loins is called a mommyblogger. There's a difference between being a woman who among other things has children and likes to blog and a mommyblogger.
By and large, mommy bloggers are those women for whom the better part of their blog is dedicated to the things we typically associate with motherhood. When people tell Miss Missives that mommy blogs are all the same, I emphatically correct them. There are many distinct types of mommy blogs. Here are just a few:
1.The Family Time Capsule Mom
2.The I Am An Aspiring MILF Look How Wild I Am Even Though I Have Kids(usually found on myspace)
3.The I Write About Other Stuff and Am Only Vaguely Aware that Somewhere I Think I May Have Some Children
4.The Moms that Would Like to Sit and Check Email all Day and Get Paid For It(recognizable by bad content and a profusity of ads, pay per posts and reviews for free swag they got and reviews for stuff they'd like to get)
5.The I Seriously Need an Outlet Mom because Nobody is Being Honest About How Hard This Is and I Think Maybe I Need Medicine, Help
6.The I Need to Complain About My Mate and Get Validated by Strangers because it's Easier and More Rewarding than Fixing My Problems
7.The I'm Funny and I Like to Write, and Yes, I Have Kids, but I Also Have [edit], and Dreams that Don't Include My Kids or Even My Husband (Wife, Mate, Etc.) Sometimes I'm up, sometimes I'm down but I'm honest and I'll write the way we all feel
8.The Snarky, Trashy, Loud(pick your adjective) Mom and Though I May Scare Off the Women in My Neighborhood, I'm Fun, and Interesting and Probably One of the Nicest People You'll Never Know"
I'm really hoping I'm number 7 or 8, but I know I tend toward number 1 a lot too. I know I'll never measure up to The Meanest Mom's ability to write or Simple Mom's ability to inspire. I personally love mommy bloggers in all their forms. Which one do you think you are?
5 comments:
I'm thinking a little 5, a little 7.... do you agree?
I think you are a 7. I am a 5. I always think that I need an out. I always wish I could handle spending more time creating and having fun with my children.
You know, one of the things that I dislike about "mommyblogging" is this idea that you have some kind of OBLIGATION to entertain other people... I mean heck, I don't honestly FEEL witty most days and certainly don't want to try to FAKE that... so I think I'm mostly a #1 too and I don't think there is anything wrong with that. I blog so that I can save some of our family's history... and SOMETIMES to amuse others... but by all means, none of us should feel PRESSURE to be a #7! :-)
L love taking a blog peek into the lives of the people I knew when they were little...you are all such awesome, talented people. You have grown and developed wonderful testimony, character and beautiful families! You can tell by my blog that I don't get to it very often and I have a pretty boring life next to the up and coming generation. Keep up the good work!
I think we are all one of each of those at one time or another. (Well, Not the Aspiring MILF :P) I want to complain somedays, I want to time Casule others. Most of all, I want to just write all our crazy lives down, and hope someone can relate.
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