On the one month Anniversary of my youngest Daughter's birthday, I deactivated my Facebook. I had been thinking about doing so ever since month 7 of my pregnancy, but I felt like I had more to say. No one was explicitly listening. My husband heard everything I had to say every single night at 11:00pm regardless. Not to mention, every thing I wanted to say, he had already seen, been apart of or experienced. I realized, after I deleted the app that I had been obsessive compulsively checking it every 20 or so minutes, and then spending hours on it. It was time to quit. However, Being a stay at home mom, you're virtually cut off from the entire world. Being a liberal, democrat voting, blue & purple haired, tattoo covered stay at home mom, in a conservative, heavily religious town- you basically don't exist. So, I decided to start this blog instead.
In 2020, before the pandemic shut down the world, I was trying to find a job I could stay at. I went to temp agencies, and never really found my footing anywhere. To, From, and at these jobs, I was binging podcasts. A friend of mine posted that he started a podcast about being gamers and nerdy dads. I listened, and I loved it. I messaged my friend about the games they were talking about and I was brought into their circle. I offered to help them market the podcast, since it was one of my best skills, and they accepted. From then on, damn near every free moment was spent learning WordPress, google analytics, SEOs and new topics to talk about. I wrote an article about "Toxic Fandoms" and shared it, and so many of my friends and other women chimed in about it. It felt good to have my stuff be read. After a while, we all got busy and schedules didn't align, so it petered off. But, I still felt like I had more I wanted to talk about and share.
In 2021, we decided we were going to brave "Post Covid" world and start taking our 2 year old places. Near us, there is a mall that has a Legoland, Aquarium & a Peppa Pig Play World. We bought 3 day tickets, and decided to go. However, the website was poorly designed, we didn't understand how the time windows worked, and in hindsight we should've just done Peppa Pig Play World and ignored the other two. I wrote about our experience on Facebook and the post got more likes and comments than anything I had posted in the past 5 years. More personal endorsements poured in. "You should start a blog for your reviews!" "I don't have kids, but my friend do and I shared your post!"
After my daughter was here, I was taking inventory of the things we bought and have used and not used. My husband and I started looking for replacements for a few things. I said "I should write about this." Again "You absolutely should." Another friend. "If you started a blog, I would read it." "You might be able to make money off of it."
So here we are, with my marketing skills, my not so silent mind, trapped in this house full of poopy diapers, being a toddler's snack bitch, and a husband who's too tired and already knows what I'm going to say, I start this blog today.
If you don't know me, Hi, my name is Jennifer (But everybody calls me Jenn-yes two Ns. No its not weird). I'm 32, a parent of two girls, married to my high school sweetheart. A year ago i dyed my hair blue, and over the past year it's become more purple than blue. Its the most "me" thing i've ever done. I have no intention of going back to my normal hair color. I'm a tattoo enthusiast, a bookworm, an amateur gardener, a former professional photographer, a foodie, a therapist for my friends, and a lazy stay at home mom. The goal of this blog is to either influence you to buy products or books I love, or to avoid at all costs books I disliked or products I felt I wasted my money on. Occasionally I may post a personal post here or there. (I have a few controversial opinions). I don't trash talk my spouse, I do trash talk myself though. (Working on it). I hope you'll follow along.
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