Howdy folks. My heart has not been into blogging at all lately and I wanted to let you know.
Yes, this is going to be one of those posts.
I’ve decided to go back to how I was blogging here in the beginning. For me. For my family. Not caring about how many followers or how much traffic I get. It gets consuming. It’s been about a year since I started Little Miss Nerd Girl and I’ve gone in the wrong direction. This was supposed to be a blog about our adventures for our family and friends in California to read.
I’ll still be blogging – just not as much. I’ll still participate in link ups here and there. I’m just not going to let it take up as much time as it has been. I have a family, school, and the design work that I need to concentrate on.
Since I have not been into posting as much, my sponsor spotlights will cease to exist. I will still complete them for April, but in May I will no longer be offering paid sponsorships. If you want to swap though, I am cool with that. If you purchased ad space from me for the month of May I am sending you a refund.
If there is one thing I have learned from blogging it is that you need to not lose yourself. I started this as a way to write and share our happenings with my family and friends and completely lost myself along the way. I’m so lost that all the people I started blogging for in the first place don’t even know about this blog because I was embarrassed by it.
I’ll still be on Twitter and Instagram but I probably won’t be on Facebook much at all. I need to do what’s right for my family and for my heart.
No more, friends. No more. I’m going back to my roots.
Latest posts by Lacey (see all)
- Fort Worth Moms Blog - May 17, 2013
- Favorite Date - May 16, 2013
- To Grayson on his Fourth Birthday - May 12, 2013
Love it. That is the way it should be! If you stop doing it for you then it stops being fun.
I know how you feel. I am right there with you. and I wrote this same post a month or so ago. I too am going back to my original ways of blogging. I will always be a fan and support your blog. You are my bloggy bff! so blessed to have met you. xoxo
I hear yah girl! I only blog about once or twice a month now, and only if it’s something really near and dear to me. All the joy was sucked out of it when I was forcing my posts a couple times a week, and it showed in my writing. Take care girlie, and we’ll see you around
Good for you! Looking forward to raw and ranty posts.
I feel the exact same way chica! I think that when you start your blog and start reading others you get caught up in the excitement of “Oh if I can make my blog marketable I can make money!” And then you join the circus of sponsors, linky parties, and crazy things that take up so much time and energy and you’re right, I did all that and lost what my blog meant to me in the process. I’ve lately been posting alot less and focusing on my family alot more, because I was neglecting my husband and my daughter. NO MORE!
I applaud you, and agree with you 100%. Lets go back to being REAL!! =)
Love you! And I will always read, I love your little family!
Rachael
Yep cannot agree with you more. I was blogging everyday because I got caught up. I need to remind myself that I am doing this for me and no one else if people do not like it go on to the next. Good for you.
I love this decision! Good for you—but don’t stop being my friend, okay?!?
OMG!..OMG!!…I have been feeling the same lately Lacey! You can notice if you go to my CuteCoconut that there are days when there are not any new post from me..despite for so many things I have had to blog about. Somehow lately I am just not feeling it and recently I have decided to take to that root too…Yes, sometimes I am just caught up with how to increase the traffic and so on, and not realizing I am losing my self and find out I am lost somewhere..funny feeling because unlike you I started blogging because it’s my hobby and I want to make money from it but still by having fun. When the fun is not there anymore, the excitement is also vanished all at once.
Thank you so much for sharing this in your post
XX