Three years ago I sat down at my dining room table, exhausted, drained and desperate. Desperate for sleep. Desperate for relief. Desperate for help.Desperate to just be able to eat lunch without being interrupted. Everything seemed impossible. I was so unprepared for motherhood.
I questioned every decision I made. I wanted to know what to expect next. I brought books, I googled constantly and yet there were no answers. So I did what I do when I feel lost, I started to write. I wanted to write down all that I was experiencing, all that was happening, so that next time around I would know. I would have an idea, a clue how I made it through.
And those first few months of motherhood were lonely. A cold snowy winter much like this one, we were always at home.
Three years ago seems like a lifetime ago. I’m not the mother I was then, I’m more comfortable with it all. Three years ago when I started blogging I felt so alone. And blogging became my outlet, my resource, my community. It’s amazing what a little blog can do. It can connect you with old friends, it can help you make new ones, it can bring up conversations you never thought you would have. It can help you realize that you have much more in common than you every imagined. It led me to a group of moms, friends, and bloggers who I can go to for advice and who I can whine too and who I can share my joys with.
This space may still be small. It may never go viral. It may not be as novel and note-worthy as I thought it was when I started, before I realized that mommy-blogs were a dime a dozen. But three years ago this space became my outlet and continues to be a space of my own where I can write, remember and connect.
And I hope that it continues to grow, little by little. And I hope that each of you has found something here that has made you smile, laugh, cry or say “me too”. And I hope that you continue to follow me here, on this journey through motherhood. Cheers to 3 years of Wine in Mom.
I’m one like away from 100 on my Facebook fan page, it would make my day if I you would go over and like my page.
Happy 3rd blogiversary, Julia!! May you have many more fulfilling writing and blogging years ahead of you.
Thank you Alison!
Congrats on 3 years!!! We all come to blogging for different reasons- some the same, some different. I also know that the reasons we do it can be very fulfilling if you keep sight of your purpose and intent. That's how I feel. I will never be viral (that is a good thing) but I like my place on the internet. Just think of how much you've documented and kept track of to look at down the road. It's a gift that is priceless. Keep going!
You are right that is priceless I love being able to look back through my blog and come across pictures and posts that I had forgotten about.
Congrats on three years! 🙂 I have loved following your blog.
Thank you Shell! Your blog was one of the first I started reading when I got into blogging.
YAY Julia! Happy Blogiversary! I, too, started writing because I felt I needed something that was mine, and mine alone. And while it's hard work, I don't regret it for a second. Onwards and upwards, lady!
Thank you Gina! As moms we definitely need something that is our own.
Happy Blogiversary! I love blogging for the things you mentioned. So glad to know you through it too. 🙂
So glad to have met you through blogging too Elaine : )
Happy Blogiversary!!
Love your post & your blog! 🙂
Thank you Rach, and I love that I've gotten to know you through blogging.
Well, now you are at 101. Happy blogiversary. I am happy to call you my friend and one of my writers. 🙂 More success is on it's way to you. I'm sure.
Thank you so much Jenn, becoming one of your writers has been one of my happiest accomplishments that have come to me through blogging. I see big things for both of us.