Mothering Many

I did. I said toys right at the end of the last post, before the PS. Specifically, I want to mention personalized toys. I was an only child, for my first decade, and I was always thrilled when a gift had my name written on it. After I got a sister my own age, that thrilled me even more, because it meant that whatever I had received was mine, all mine, no sharing required. That was …like, way cool.

These days, all my kids have colors, and I know that helps with ownership issues, but I also know that your color is not the same as your name, and they get a thrill out out of seeing their name or picture on something, just as I did. So, this year, I am looking at Personalized Gifts for Children. I already have a book for Drama (shhhh! don’t tell), but I’d like to get something for the others, too. Something so much their very own that it has their name all over it, yk? That just makes it “specialer” as some of mine say.

I thought I might make a few notes here about what I learned in Vegas, or at least how I plan to apply it to this blog.

*One thing I am considering is an email list, but I am not sure quite how that would work, considering the frequency with which I plan to update. I’ll look into Zookoda for that, as I think they offer a daily and weekly option. Also, they are an Izea product, and that makes me feel warm inside. I just have to stop for a moment and ponder the foresight of acquiring an email list provider. Over a year ago.

*Bring cooking and toys and school back into the Mothering Many fold. I had tried to split them out, but that’s not working so well for me, and I think it has made this a less …. sparkly and enthusiastic blog. I like sparkly. I like enthusiastic. When they belong to me, I like them even better. I actually gushed when I heard someone refer to me as “high energy” over the weekend.

*Publish on a schedule, one to three posts a day, 5 days a week.

*Rework the categories on this blog. Gosh, they are so ….. whatever it is that they are that I can’t figure out where to put stuff half the time.

*Readership. This is the one thing on my list that I cannot control. But I can do these other things, and trust that the readership will come. Right now, short stat reports that I have had between 315 and 411 uniques for this week. I’d like to see that up to 350 and 600 by a year from now, which is forever in internet life. But it’s also a traffic increase of 50% and I am pretty sure that won’t happen tomorrow. Unless each of you tell all your readers about me. What say you? <–shameless begging

Ok, I think that about covers it. Next up: toys.

PS, also to change the template to one that allows paragraph breaks, if I can find another one I love.