Writing, for me, is a passion…and outlet of sorts for a bit of creative expression and unleashing of the thoughts and feelings I can’t verbally express.  When I’m struggling with the frustration of how to deal with my toddler’s strong will and independence…or how to comfort a friend who’s world was turned upside down just a few weeks ago by life…or how to change the way we’ve been shopping and eating our whole lives because of a food allergy…I write. I have “blog posts” in my head, waiting to be unleashed at the keyboard.  Time, children, work, and life are my priority.  But when the kids are asleep (my toddler and infant are napping at the same time as I write…a rarity these days)…and my husband wants to watch The Office (boo!)…I write.  If only one person read my blog (thanks hubby!)…I’d still write.  It’s therapeutic for me.

As a little girl, my mother used to encourage me to write in a journal.  She always thought I’d write a book (so far that hasn’t come to fruition…yet).  All through grade school, high school, college and into grad school…I’d hear the same thing over and over….Caryn writes so well (or something along those lines).  This blog of mine…is like a precious journal to me…it’s a written and visual account of my life over the past 2 and a half years.  One day, I want to print off all of my “personal” posts and bind them…or scrapbook them…or somehow preserve them (any ideas on how to do this?).

In just a few weeks, I will be on a panel with some amazing women at Child’s Play Communications’ Third Annual Blogger Brunch in Los Angeles.  The topic at hand…Connecting With Moms In Social Media.  Here are the women that I am so honored to be speaking with:

· Jill Asher, Silicon Valley Moms Blog
· Ciaran Blumenfeld, Momfluential
· Maryanne Conlin (MC) Milker, The Not Quite Crunchy Parent

The written word becomes spoken in just a few weeks!