Ok so here’s my first post and I’gonna try and keep it short. I just want to explain a little bit about why I started the blog and also what I have run into while learning more about blogging and social media.

Since having kids I have been more conscious of the products I buy and use and I have noticed more natural and organic products becoming available which is great. I do see a lack of certain things that are available and affordable. From this, I decided to get into developing a new line of bedding and home products.

While in development, the general idea was to start building a following on social media so that I myself could survey and get real knowledge as to what people are looking for and what is important to them and at the same time, develop the right target market for my line of bedding. As I started to get into it, I noticed that I started meeting some incredible people and became attached to a lot of them and their families as well as noticing my compassion for so many others expand. It sounds funny because majority of people I have never met in person but have come to know them on social media and it almost expanded my realm of interest and responsibility outside of my circle of friends and acquaintances in “real life”.

I also noticed that I got sucked in, pretty hard for a minute, to all the politics of social media and also the odd concepts of having to impress a whole lot of people that I don’t know personally but feeling obligated to be interesting to them and accepted. For a minute it was worse than being in 8th grade as a young girl… that was just on Instagram.

As far as my blog is concerned, my first problem was that there are so many amazing profiles and bloggers out there and so much data available at everyone’s finger tips that I wondered why anyone would even care to have another blogger. Then I remembered why I was doing this in the first place. My first intention for blogging through the process of development was to do it for myself and then it expanded into this idea of writing it in such a way to keep people interested and somehow I got a little lost in that whole concept.

The truth is that I am not all that interesting. I don’t live in Bali or Australia, I am not a perfect mother and I don’t have the most perfect family and I suck at cooking when I even bother to cook. So back to the drawing board I decided that if I am going to do this blog and expand on social media, I am going to be 100% honest with it. I am probably going to write like someone who didn’t finish high school (because I didn’t) and I will post photos that aren’t always good quality or match my grid perfectly. My stories and snapchats might be great, they might be stupid or annoying or just be baby video after baby video once in a while, who knows? But I know that I will post and write what I am experiencing or have experienced and I’ll post about it in a way that I want to and not worry much about how it is criticized.

Don’t get me wrong, I loooooooove looking through pretty profiles and reading all about the great moms out there doing amazing stuff and killing it in the mom world. I WISH I could blog like them. Reality just is what it is and here’s me. So I hope you enjoy and I am fully open to comments and feedback!!

xox

Shannon