Interview with Jenny from “Home is where you start from”

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I started blogging as a way to keep family updated on our daily lives, so they could see the things we were doing, what kind of trips we had been on, what our homeschool is like. In person they tend to not ask us alot about ourselves, but then would seem hurt to be out of the loop. Now that I am blogging, I am surprised at how much I like to blog for an outlet, because I enjoy writing, and how much I enjoy the new blog-friends I am making.

Since July, 2006

What do you normally blog about? Our kids, our daily lives, trips we take, thoughts on the bible, what we do in our homeschool, sometimes whatever I find interesting or funny.

My list is growing! To name a few, At a hen’s pace, A Chelsea Morning, Enjoy the Journey… Actually, too many to list here - go to my blog and see the blog list in the margin.

Just jump right in, blogger is really easy to set up, I am extremely klutzy with the computer, but even I was able to do it.

Yes, I get to visit their blogs when they leave their url and after a while you get to know some of the people you chat with often. I really like it when people leave a comment because then I know who visited and I can visit back.

Only three regularly, and one of the three is my husband! It’s really kind of a bizarre situationI started blogging for our family and they rarely visit it, yet I have lots of new blogfriends who visit on a regular basis.

I usually blog at our computer in our front room (with a big window). In the morning while I have my breakfast and diet coke I read my bloglines, check my email, comments and sitemeter. I have to save actual blogging for late at night after my kids go to bed, I am just very busy during the day with them. I also will finish reading bloglines if there were alot of posts or deep posts that I couldn’t get to in the morning. I use our laptop when I want to post photos to my blog.

I try to post every day or two, as far as reading other blogs-I don’t really want to know how much time I really spend, probably alot of time. I stopped reading the newspaper in the morning to give that time to reading blogs.

No, I find blogs to read thru blogrolls on other blog sites I like, or through comments someone might leave on my site.

I had heard the term in the news for a while, I thought I knew what it was. My impression of blogging was an online ‘diary’ and I thought “why would anyone want to spill their personal guts online for the world to see?”

Enjoy the Journey. Someone on a homeschool forum linked a newspaper article written about her, out of curiosity I clicked over to her blog and I really liked what I saw. Instead of the online diary I had imagined, I saw more of a family “newsletter” with photos, book lists, all kinds of interesting things to share. I instantly thought of trying to connect with family through one. I like to scrapbook and this blog appealed to the scrapbooker in me.