Blog It Out.

Good morning sweet peeps!

We've almost made it to the weekend. 

This week went really fast, so no complains here.

I want to share these 3 posts that if you have not seen in blog world yet, 
you should definitely read.

Raven, Kristen, and Erin touch on some important blog topics
 that got this brain to thinking. 

If you haven't read them or refuse to click those links above, 
then you probably won't understand why I'm writing all this. 
So you might as well go click on their links. 
Ready, go. :)

When I first started my blog, I did it to have a "journal" type of space where I could write and share things going on in my life. It was also started due to my Mom's love notes she left me when she passed away. I wanted to create my own love notes for my family, and for myself. At that point, I barely knew how to leave comments for others on their blog, more or less understand the concept of sponsoring, giveaways, link-ups, etc.

In fact, if you want the honest truth, Pink Lou Lou's blog was the very first blog I started following regularly. Poof's, makeup reviews, vlogs...what in the what? I had never seen such things. The day I saw her following MY blog, I literally shit my pants had my mouth open and called Billy and told him that 'the biggest blogger in the history of blog world' was now following my blog. Shut the front door. I couldn't believe it. This blog was officially real at that point. 

Moving on, I know how long it took my blog to grow and how fun, yet time consuming, the process was. I love blogging. It makes me happy. I've met some best friends from blogging. I find my greatest ideas through blogging (who can think of them all on their own nowadays, anyways? I'm looking at you Pinterest.) I promised myself I would never take my blog in a direction that wasn't true to myself and I know that I've followed through with that so far.

With time, my blog has grown and I can't tell you enough how thankful I am for you, my readers, and the comments I get on a daily basis. I do feel as though I do a pretty good job at replying to your comments, or answering emails. It does get difficult to reply to all of the emails and comments I receive, but I do try my best. With working full time and having a husband that surprisingly still enjoys hanging out with me after 9 years, I get busy. Just like I'm sure you do. However, I often go out of my way to visit new blogs and leave comments. Sure, I have a couple blogger ladies that I'm really close with (mainly because I've met them in real life and have been following them for over a year now), but I try my best to reach out to other bloggers as well. I may be old school here, but I don't really play into any blog drama, or blog "rules". I think everyone should just do what they want and have fun. Everyone and every blog is different.  Also, whenever I leave a comment on your blog, it is because I have something to say and I liked what I read. It's not because I need, want, or expect a reply. Unless I'm asking a specific question, then I'm usually leaving you the comment to let you know I was reading and agreed with what you said. Plain and simple. 

Let's wrap this up. 

The point: I LOVE and appreciate all of my readers, and I love getting comments pop up in my inbox. So THANK YOU ALL! I truly appreciate all the love you've shown me. I would never want you guys to feel neglected by me, so this is your chance to speak up and say "hey, you never reply to me!", so I can be aware of that and fix it. I hope that you know that it doesn't matter to me how big or small (I, too, had that 1 reader!) your blog is, I will follow you if I see that we have similar interests or just that I'm loving what you post!

By the way, some of my favorite posts I've ever written have less than 10 comments. 

Like this one, and especially- this one (and thank you for the recent comments on this!). 

If you haven't read those yet, go get to know to me a little more and why I first started my blog.

*In addition, please leave me a comment here with a post or 2 that you've written about you on your blog. I'd like to go read them!

If you take one thing away from this...I hope it is that you know how much I love and appreciate my readers (even those of you who have never introduced yourself!)  
and to STAY TRUE to yourself/why you started blogging in the first place. 
And if you are feeling worn out with blogging...take a break. 
No judgement here. 

let's all Keep Calm and Carry On.......

aaanddd...I'm cheesy.


{PS-Your comments on my Polka Dot Outfit post yesterday are so sweet. XOXO!}