Blogging Recipe

I get asked all the time when people find out that I have a blog,

"how do you have the time to blog?"

It is usually followed by comments like, what a waste of time & why do you want everyone to know about your life. I never intended to set out to tell everyone about my life. It just kind of happened.

Tonight when I was putting the kids to bed a flood of posts and blogging memories came rushing to me and I thought this may be a good way to provide a recipe of why and how I blog.
I don't recommend doing all of the 18 steps if you don't have to

18 steps to start a blog

1. get a Christmas card from a friend from the dorms in college (which at the time was 16 years later) and call her, have a great time talking to her, remember that time of your life and be grateful you are friends.
   
2. find out that she has just started a blog and have her walk you through the steps of how to set it up, because you never think you will be able to figure it out.
3. have your husband work 2 1/2 full time jobs, every major holiday and weekends so that you have many lonely free nights of no one to talk to.
4. have a million ideas run though your head at all times and never be able to sleep because you wish you could just sit and sew all night long - then realize blogging helps get rid of the ideas and new ones come
   
5. have 2 kids 17 months apart and then kind of freak out and think, "what have I done" so you start reading other mom blogs and realize you are not the only one going crazy
6. live in New Orleans and make lots of friends, move away from them, miss them, get them to all start blogs so you can keep in touch.
7. suffer from depression and think having a blog called Everything Pink will help you get up every morning and look at life as a wonderful thing
   
8. prepare to move away from a place that you have lived for 6 years and absolutely love
9. move from that place and cry your heart out
10. move into a new town that costs twice as much money to live in and overwhelms you with all the traffic.
11. take awhile to make friends and feel lonely and even sometimes sorry for yourself.
    
12. make sure you don't get invited to birthday parties, baby showers and wedding receptions that everyone else is going to so you have lots of time to create and sew and then blog about it.
13. make up for 10 years of your husband being busy with school and now you get to see him every single night, go on vacation as a family and spend all of Christmas day together.
    
14. remember the time when you had a sewing business to help your husband through school and how you were desperate to sell anything that anyone would buy to make money. let those memories motivate you to brag about all the amazing creative women out there and promote their business on your blog
15. decide to do something really daring that you thought you could never do and keep it a secret just because you think it will be so fun to share it on your blog if you do all 26.2 miles of it
    
16. serve in your church and have it really touch your life to the point that you can't imagine keeping all these amazing experiences inside and feel like you have to shout them from the rooftops.
17. miss your college friends so bad you that it motivates you to make your first girlfriend trip cross country to see them.
    
18. have a great time. remember that wonderful time of your life and be grateful you are friends.

That's it. My simple recipe of why and how I blog