Blogging it Mummy Style

I was reading an article in the SF Chronicle- a poor example of journalism at best- and there was an article about Mothers blogging. It will hardly come as a surprise that mothers are more likely than other demographics to blog as they wish to vent having spent time with the little darlings (I use the term advisedly). What surprised me was how much money was to be made from this venture.

OK I can be naive and rather dense at times but had thought that the blog was an arena to just communicate not profit. There I go sounding all bohemian. Other mothers' blogs have been entertaining but I just saw them as a a reflection rather than product. There were ladies who were raking it in and living comfortably off the income from their blog. As one lady wrote you get little respect when you don't earn any money. Try being a musician and writer !

Once again I thought a blog was something you wrote when you had a few moments as you wanted to just have time to gather your thoughts and put them out there in the hope that someone would read them and not a professional venture. Looks like I missed the point then.

I have not regaled the world with tales of breastfeeding partly because I gave up over a year ago and wondered who would find it interesting. There have been days when the girls have driven me to distraction and I have wanted to take up smoking or at least sit in a darkened room and tally the number of years until the little angels went to college.

How would I put this blog into a product? T-shirts- slogans- Mummy knows best? Memoirs- the trying years? Oh dear what next?

I just like rambling and have no head for business as is obvious but I love the idea that there is solidarity amongst stay-at-home mothers in whatever form. We need to support each other through good and bad times and raise a glass to something no matter how trivial.

Talking of trivial it is time to cook dinner, unsaddle and feed the high horse and keep the superhero cape hidden until it is really needed.