2 Year Blogging Anniversary & Reader Survey
You guys, I’m feeling a bit nostalgic this morning. This week marks 2 years since I started this piece of the internet. TWO YEARS! I am still absolutely amazed that you lovely ladies stop by my blog, read the posts, and then share your thoughts with me. When it comes to finding an absolutely fulfilling cause, I love sharing my passion with you, even 2 years later.
When I hit publish on my first post years ago, I was convinced only my mom & sister would see it. And thankfully, because it was SO BAD, that’s all who read it.
This past year was all about education and growing the blog into a community of helping other busy moms make their lives easier.
I only wrote about easy projects, simple recipes that anyone can complete. This blog has grown to be more about you and less about the DIY projects we do around the house. Originally, I just wanted to document what we’d been up to here in Michigan. After all, our families lived in other states and we didn’t get to see them regularly and for just a few dollars a month, I could upload photos of our latest projects.
and 2 years later…
Now, I’m only including projects that are easy, simple, and practical.
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The Best Things That Happened in Year # 2 of Blogging
- Enrolled (& completed!) in Elite Blog Academy
- Joined MediaVine for Ads (one of my best blogging choices)
- Released Your Life Made Easy
- Created a Shop Page
- Published 115 NEW POSTS
- Released 2 FREE eCourses / Challenges [ Simply Easy Meal Planning and The 6 Week Declutter Challenge]
- Created the Making Our Lives Easier Facebook Community
- Started earning a real income from this corner of the internet
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What’s Next for Year #3?
I am so excited to hear more about you in year #3! To kick things off, I’d love to hear about you, from you!
I created a quick reader survey to hear your thoughts and where next year will take us. As a token of thank you for completing the survey, I’m giving away one $100 gift card to Target (a prize chosen by the Making Our Lives Easier FB community)!!
I want to know more about what makes you happy or frustrated and how I can help. Usually, I share real-life experience as a working mom, but I’d love to hear your struggles and we can share stories over virtual wine together. Can we do that? Or is that weird?
And I’m also asking about blogging, too. I tend to shy away from sharing too many blogging posts because that isn’t the main focus of this ol’ blog. However, I am receiving more & more requests on how I find time to blog that I think I’ll sit down later this week and sharing some blogging knowledge.
I CANNOT WAIT TO HEAR YOUR IDEAS!
Hi Brittany! I really enjoy your blog! I am a fellow blogger and I really enjoyed this post. I joined EBA last year and launched my blog in June. It’s been growing steadily, but you know how it is. We always think we should be further along. What your post shows is that slow and steady wins the race.. I like how you posted what you did in year one, then achievements for year two and then goals for year three. Blogging is a slow process of building and we know that we shouldn’t compare our beginnings to someone else’s middle.
So thanks for laying out your processes, achievements and goals. It puts things in perspective and reminds me I’m where I should be…still in the early stages. I admire you, doing this with a full time job AND Little’s! I don’t have children at home any longer and I still struggle with trying to get everything done that I need to for the blog! That alone is a full time job! Keep up the great work!
Thank you SO MUCH for the kind words Kimberly!! Yes, blogging is definitely a full time job these days! I struggle with comparing myself, too. Have a lovely week 🙂 –Brittany