For my Cross Blog Conversation, I was lucky to catch Alaina Frederick, busy wife, mom of 3, and a blogger who shared how her blog and website have evolved over time. This is helpful info, as many of us new mom bloggers think we have to come up with a perfect focus before we even begin.
E: Alaina, you’ve been involved in blogging and online work for quite some time. How has your blog evolved and changed?
A: Erin, that is really an interesting question! I first started my blog as a way to let my customers know of specials for my then online boutique. It was first just something I update when I had something going on. Over time I ended up realizing that storing products, packing them up, dealing with returns, exchanges, and just all of those goodies was not for me. So I took a break and that is when I started journaling on a “mommy blog”. To me it was just a way for me to share funny moments and pictures with our family. I loved it–it was such a great release.
Quickly my drive for my online boutique came back, but I wanted more to have just an outlet to share the great natural products I came across. So Dinker & Giggles was back–but this time just as a blog. Over the past year my site has slowly grown with my children. At first I was writing a lot about cloth diapers, breastfeeding, and babywearing. It’s where I was in my life. Now that my youngest is over a year many of those things I’m just not excited about. Almost as if I’ve “been there, done that”. So today the site has grown with me.
My main focus right now in my personal life is being transparent- admitting that I have a problem with food and finding fun ways to solve it. So I started a Lifetime Challenge for myself. 100 lbs in 365 days – and to continue the healthy outlook for life!
Now, I’m not all about weight loss– that would just be boring to me! I’m still writing about natural parenting and home life but it’s with a giggle I call it. Taking things that we are struggling with in our own home and with our parenting techniques and finding fun ways to fix them.
To finish our conversation, go look at Alaina’s blog right now.
OH my, this helped me so much. Being a new blogger, I’ve had SO many shifts in what my ‘target’ blog would be… Thank you Alaina, for showing us our blogs grow with us if we let them!!
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