Last year, I wrote a post called “Thank Your Fairy Blog Mother Day“…
This year, I’ve extended the holiday for the entire week.
You didn’t know that you had a Fairy Blog Mother ? Why, of course you do. You may have more than one. You may even have a male Fairy Blog Mother. Your Fairy Blog Mothers are those people who first inspired you to begin a blog of your own. Since today kicks off Thank Your Fairy Blog Mother Week 2006, I’d like to tell you a little about the ladies that pulled me into this wonderful world of blogging with their lovely words.
I have three:
1) Emzeedotes - This was the very first blog that I ever laid eyes on. My cousin began this blog during her pregnancy and as I slowly began reading it on a daily basis I became hooked. She is a very talented writer, so although I never missed an entry she posted, I did not really see myself beginning a blog of my own at that time. I did not think I would ever have anything that creative to say - or be able to say it as well as she does. Not having any blog surfing under my belt, I just assumed that this was some elite writers set that I was better to just observe and enjoy.
On the day my cousin delivered her sweet baby boy (or the day she posted about it) she was chosen as Michele’s site of the day. That is how I came to meet my next Fairy Blog Mother.
2) Michele- As I read all of the comments sent to my cousin by Michele’s readers, I thought…”who the heck is Michele??”. (I can’t even imagine saying that now.) I began reading her blog and many of the others that commented that day and in no time I was craving a blog of my own. I wanted to express myself in this wonderful and new way, with all of these cool & interesting people.
Michele sets such a fine example of charm, eloquence and grace on her blog. She is warm and welcoming and always friendly. I was thrilled to join this new club that I had happened into and I know that I could not have landed on a better doorstep than hers.
3) Short and Sweet (now “Running in Circles“
- I found Cori’s blog totally by accident. I read that she was a mom of kids around the age of my kids, she lived in an area that I used to live in and she made me smile every time I visited her. I loved her design and the fact that she always lists the exercise that she does each day. With Cori, it was the little personal touches that inspired me. I yearned for a blog where I could add some style and personality of my own.
I want to take the time this week to express my gratitude to these women for reaching out to me, making me laugh and introducing me to so many new & interesting people. Most importantly I want to thank them for showing me that we each have something unique and worth while to say.
I love my blog and truly value so many of the new friendships I have met through this medium. So today, I raise my glass to all of the Fairy Blog Mothers out there, especially to the 3 of my own and say many, many, many thanks.
Your turn:
Who are your Fairy Blog Mothers?
How did they inspire you to create your blog?
Answer here or post a personal Fairy Blog Mother thank you on your own blog and I’ll link you below.
If you played last year, leave the link to that entry and I will include it as well.
Others who are Thanking:
*Crazy MomCat
*Raehan
*Bluegrass Momma
*Heather
*Lisa
*Jen
*Renee
*Danielle
*Norma
*Courtney
*LazyDaisy
*Barbara
What? No way, I’m first. Cool! But, hey I don’t know if I am going to do the list thingy. I mean I blog because of my brother, he had one first and set up mine for me two and a half years ago. I have a Fairy Godfather. And hey, he IS a fairy! AHAHAHA! Ok not really. But he is gay :winking: That’s about it. I love all my blogging friends, present company included. Everyone on my blogroll inspires me one way or another. Thanks for sharing your story with us.
Funny you should ask —
You, my dear friend, are my Fairy Blogmother. I thank you so much for sending me your link - just once - in an email. It was a small PS…. it said PS — check out my blog. I did! I read! I was hooked!
I lurked around your blog and others for quite a while until I was ready to jump into the blogworld with both feet, When I did, you encouraged me. I appreciated that more than you know.
So, thanks so much MommaK for introducing me to this wonderful place!
LadyBug
I don’t have any fairy Blog Mothers…..but I have many cyberfriends and lots of interesting reading…thanks to bloggers like you.
I agree with you about reading blogs and finding it fasinating. But the private person I am…I never wanted to do one myself. I still like lurking.
Although yesterday I mentioned I didn’t like football and that was hard for me to come out with it. I know we are such a football society….but I did and I don’t like football that is.
Better Safe Than Sorry is my fairy Blog Mother. She reminds me when I’m doing something on my blog that could potentially reveal my top secret identity, thereby putting the safety of the entire world in jeopardy. :giggle:
lol to my fairy blogdaughter!
i guess my kids are my fairy blogmothers. they are the reason i started a blog, they have encouraged me to keep it going, even though they know i would much prefer not to and the things they do day to day inspire me to write some of my blogs.
I have a Fairy Blog Son, the Bloggy Award winner Guppyman. He gave me his link and I started lurking. Then I started lurking on his blogroll. Pretty soon I couldn’t help myself, I had to comment. Guppy offered several times to set up a blog for me, but I was convinced I had nothing to say that anyone would want to read. Finally, he just set the blog up for me and told me how to get to it. I had just been on vacation, had all these cool pictures, what else could I do but start blogging? And it’s been a really wonderful experience, with so many new friends I wouldn’t recognize in person, but I know their hearts, and they know mine.
Michele has always been the leader of a fine band. I have visited many excellent blogs as a result. I think yours was one, MommaK.
Ciera was the first commenter on my blog, and we have had a close friendship since then.
Fun! I’m adding mine right now!
Oh sweetie, you do not know how much this means to me - especially today. You have become a gloriously wonderful blogger and I am thrilled to be considered one of your blogfriends.
I know many others feel the same way about you.
Hugs from me.
http://gotnik.blogspot.com/2005/04/thank-you-fairy-blog-mothers-and.html
Here’s my link and I’m rededicating it to you and Michele who deserve very big awards for your blogging.
It’s funny to think that when we wrote these posts we had been blogging for such a short time.
I don’t have one. I have always kept a journal in one form or another and being geekish it whist its way in this direction.
My friend Misty at Soapbox.SUPERSTAR. I had been reading blogs for a couple of years, but most were news related. I knew a couple of people that had blogs, but thought it would take up too much of my time (which it does), and just wasn’t ready to take the plunge.
Ond day Misty told me I need to start one, and I did. She pushed me into it, and I’m glad she did.
I can’t remember. But I DO know that YOU inspire me.
And I was SO HAPPY when I saw the link to Emzeedotes today, because she was one of my favorites too. I thought maybe she had started up again. But, no, what a disappointment.
And I have enjoyed being at Unga’s side, too, infrequent poster that she is. (Nudge, nudge)
I was inspired to start blogging by my former roomy the Frano-American in the UK, hppt://laurenpoulin.blogspot.com. She is a talented writer and photographer, and through her blog, I am able to feel connected to her, even though she now lives across the pond.
Another great blog-spiration is definitely MommaK… Thank you!
I clearly remember. I found both my fairy blogmothers via the comments each week on the Babycenter.com column “Ben & Birdy” by Catherine Newman.
One week, Raehan commented and included a link to her blog. I had always thought she was super cool based on her comments, so I visited. I didn’t really know what a blog was, but I was hooked after reading her 100 things.
And my other blogmother, PK of SBFH, contacted me via the same comments. I found her blog, and was instantly enamored.
Both my fairyblogmothers were inspirations to get me going… and many others like yourself have helped to refine my own style and to keep this crazy addiction going!
I really don’t have one, I feel bereft now.
I have found the people I started the blog for don’t actually read it but I have met a lot of really great new people through having the blog
Morning MommaK. I am here from Michele, but actually, I was already here. My kids gave me the shove I think I secretly wanted into the blogoshere. My oldest has a wonderful blog here:http://www.sarcasmoscorner.com/
I remember doing this last year–for once I’m ahead of the crowd!
http://bluegrassmama.com/2005/04/19/thank-you-fairy-blog-mother-day/
I can’t say I honestly remember who actually inspired me to start a blog. I was reading a few at the time. If I had to pick one it would have to be Holly Lisle’s blog (www.hollylisle.com). She has inspired me as a writer and, I suppose, as a blogger too. She is inspirational and I love following her writing career.
Oh, and Michele sent me.
I started my very first blog because I wanted to try the world of blogging. But I only reached a good friend and my sister. Nobody else had time or interest in reading my “creations”. So much for the blog in Spanish. Switched to one in English just to join Michele’s M&G, I don’t remember (wish I did) how I found it, but I thought I was missing all the fun and I desperately needed a blog. And so I started. And some people even come on their own to leave a few comments. They make me sooo happy! I am comment addicted and also love to surf and leave comments… have a happy day.
There’s only one person that initially inspired me to begin a blog and that’s Megan (divinereality.com).
Some background: We met in 1997, on Talkcity, in a chat room called 30Something. Course, she wasn’t close to 30something, but she’s always liked older folks. We had fun together, but mainly, I think, cause of the age difference, we drifted apart.
Fast forward a few years.
I was exploring blogs, and found her old one. Didn’t know it was her at first, but as I read, I thought to myself…wow…this sounds like that girl Megan I used to know. I emailed her, we got to talking and renewed our friendship. As the saying goes, though, “the more things change the more they remain the same”, as, unfortunately, we’ve drifted apart.
As in most friendships, we’ve had some good times, some bad times, but overall it was fun!
So I’d very glad my fairy blog mother introducing me to blogging, because in turn it’s introduced me to some wonderful and interesting people, some of whom have become real life friends. It’s something I enjoy and I’m thankful I discovered it.
I don’t really know. I started blogging in 2003, and it was on a whim. I hadn’t really checked out any blogs for inspiration.
I am inspired, though, by Last Girl On Earth, Chatty B Tawkin, and sixeyes.
I already had my blog when I came across my fairy blogmother. She was teh reason I began posting so regularly. I want so much to be one tenth the writer she is. She is Sharon at http://perspectacles.blogspot.com.
I already wrote a post called “Blogging mentors” a few weeks ago where I talked about this. http://epnurse.blogspot.com/2006/01/blogging-mentors.html
every blogger is a fairy to me…I learn and am inspired by each site I read. Ya’ll rock!
I did thank mine http://shizzlinlisa.blogspot.com/2006/02/moving-on-from-my-rant-last-night.html but I bet each blog I read inspires me somehow.
Mine is up! http://jenanddavin.blogspot.com/2006/02/thank-your-fairy-blogmother-week-2006.html
Jen (from Jen’s Hoard) is my fairy blog mother!
She is actually a fairy blog mother to a bunch of gals from SE Denver… she did a whole class on it!
fefyfomanna: Thank Your Fairy Blogmother Week 2006
I blogged it too.
I honestly can’t remember how I got started. One day I just decided to install bblog on my server and away I went. I wanted to write. I wanted to prove that I could write and write and write every day, because I really wanted to write a novel. I never said anything about writing well, but well, I finally did write that novel!
Done and done… I posted my thank you to my Fairy Blogmother on my site, http://daniellegitkin.blogspot.com.
OK. I’ve thanked my Fairy Blog Mother, PJ.
http://collectingmythoughts.blogspot.com/2006/02/2134-thank-your-fairy-blog-mother-week.html
I have a fairy godfather. The first blogger I ever met and began to read because he’s from the same town as me is fragmentsfromfloyd.com. Also I’d have to say Sherry’s husband because he’s been such a help to me (I’m technologically challenged). I think of michele agnew as a fairy blog mother too and have refered to her that way. She picked my site as the site of the day early on and it felt like magic!
I wonder if you and I will be Sherry’s fairyblogmother’s some day!
I have posted a thank you to my Fairy Blog Mother on my blog:
http://snaphappymom.blogspot.com
I have two post….one for the person who actually got me started and another one who inspires me.
http://lazydaisylog.grrrlmeetsworld.com
Thanks for creating a wonderful reason to thank those who inspire us.
Trying to Catch Up: Fairy blog mother week
I love the idea! I don’t know if I have one though bc I didn’t really read blogs before I started writing. It’s nice to think someone is looking out for me though!