{"id":5149,"date":"2014-07-01T13:06:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T17:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=5149"},"modified":"2014-07-01T13:32:46","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T17:32:46","slug":"nablopomo-for-july-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/01\/nablopomo-for-july-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"NaBloPoMo for July 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NaBloPoMo_DECADE\"<\/a>This month I decided to join the NaBloPoMo<\/a> challenge on BlogHer<\/a>.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been active on BlogHer for a while and have even had a few of my posts featured (see which ones here<\/a>).\u00a0 It\u2019s a great community of other female bloggers who blog about anything and everything.<\/p>\n

NaBloPoMo is a monthly group that challenges bloggers to post every day for the entire month.\u00a0 I should have joined the challenge months and months ago since this has been my goal since starting Beyond Mommying (with the exception of my few months in the fall when I decided to take weekends off before beginning my \u201cWeekend Wisdom\u201d<\/a> series).<\/p>\n

I\u2019m really excited to accept the challenge because this month it will be easy for me to slack off with an eight day trip planned plus numerous birthdays, Honeybun home from school and our homeschooling trial-run (which so far is going pretty well!).\u00a0 I hope that the challenge will keep me motivated and introduce me to other motivated bloggers that are also taking the challenge and blogging every day in July!<\/p>\n

This month\u2019s theme is \u201cDecades,\u201d based on the fact that ten years ago blogging was just starting out and largely a man\u2019s world.\u00a0 Now the blogosphere is full with different people, ideas, passions and information and growing rapidly.<\/p>\n

Ten years ago I\u2019m not even sure I knew what a \u201cblog\u201d was.\u00a0 My early impressions of \u201cblogging\u201d were that it was a place for people to whine or complain about their lives or share their thoughts that no one would usually care about.\u00a0 So, obviously, I was wrong and blogging was so much more and has become a fantastic tool for sharing information, ideas and experiences.<\/p>\n

In July 2004, a decade ago, I was a busy college student in Jacksonville, Florida.\u00a0 Hubby and I (before he was hubby) had just moved into our own place off-campus.\u00a0 I was doing summer classes (Spanish 201 and 202) and working at Express.\u00a0 I was preparing for my last year of college when I would embark on my final course work and full-time student teaching on the journey of getting my teaching certificate (which I wish could say has come in really handy, but disappointingly it hasn\u2019t amounted to anything).<\/p>\n

It was 4 years before we would welcome our first daughter<\/a> and even before we adopted our first cat (Monk joined our family as our first baby<\/a> that September).\u00a0 I had no idea what the next ten years would bring.\u00a0 At that time I didn\u2019t know I wanted to go to grad school or that my goal would take us to Oklahoma <\/a>(where hubby went to grad school, not me).\u00a0 Or that we would end up back in Florida where I would take care of my Nana through her last days<\/a> and finally get my Master\u2019s Degree (in early childhood education, not dance as I had hoped).\u00a0 And I never would have imagined in my wildest dreams that we would spend two and a half years in Ireland<\/a> and undertaking a grand European Adventure<\/a>\u00a0(and oddly, today marks exactly two years since we returned to Florida).<\/p>\n

Ten years ago, I knew I was going to marry hubby someday (though I didn\u2019t expect to wait another 3+ years!) and I knew I wanted a family with beautiful little babies running around and filling our days with love and laughter.<\/p>\n

But one think I definitely never would have guessed 10 years down the line, in 2014, is that I would still feel \u201cfutureless\u201d<\/a>.\u00a0 Here I am, thirty years old, married with three beautiful (and mostly) wonderful children and I still don\u2019t know where I\u2019m going in life.\u00a0 After years of teaching preschool and teaching dance and choreographing for programs all over the country (and world) I still don\u2019t feel accomplished.\u00a0 I still don\u2019t feel like I have a clear path or goal in life.\u00a0 I still don\u2019t know what I will be when I \u201cgrow up\u201d but I do know that no matter where I go or what I do, my wonderful hubby and beautiful children will be right there with me and that is truly the greatest thing I\u2019ve accomplished in the past ten years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This month I decided to join the NaBloPoMo challenge on BlogHer.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been active on BlogHer for a while and have even had a few of my posts featured (see which ones here).\u00a0 It\u2019s a great community of other female bloggers who blog about anything and everything. NaBloPoMo is a monthly group that challenges bloggers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-mommys-life","category-mommy-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5149"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5153,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5149\/revisions\/5153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}