{"id":5,"date":"2009-05-07T15:28:45","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T15:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/theirbadmother\/2009\/05\/to-all-the-moms-that-blog-and-more-a-mothers-day-salute.html"},"modified":"2009-05-07T15:28:45","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T15:28:45","slug":"to-all-the-moms-that-blog-and-more-a-mothers-day-salute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/theirbadmother\/2009\/05\/to-all-the-moms-that-blog-and-more-a-mothers-day-salute.html","title":{"rendered":"To All The Moms That Blog, And More (A Mother’s Day Salute)"},"content":{"rendered":"

(If you haven’t already, you can read Part I of this post here<\/a>.)<\/i><\/p>\n

As I said yesterday, I came to blogging as Alice to a rabbit hole leading to Wonderland. All it took was one link to one mom-blog and I was tumbling, headfirst, into the momosphere. <\/p>\n

That one mom-blog was JezeWhiz<\/a>. And the first words of hers that I read, referring to the challenge of a new baby, were, “this gig is hard, dudes<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

I think that I gasped audibly. Somebody else knows. SOMEBODY ELSE KNOWS<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In
\nan instant, I realized that I was not alone. I spent the next hour –
\nhours – reading through her wonderful blog, laughing and wincing and
\nnodding and goggling at the pictures of her adorable baby boy.<\/a> Then I started following her links. I linked to Amalah<\/a>,
\nand discovered another new mother who was babbling hysterically,
\nbrilliantly, about having a new baby. And then I followed another link, and discovered that Dooce <\/a>was not a feminine hygiene product. And then I linked to another blog<\/a>, and another<\/a>, and another<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I was totally sucked in.<\/p>\n

Women – and men<\/a>, and men and women <\/a>–
\nwere writing about having babies. They were writing about how hard and
\namazing and exhilarating and painful and awe-inspiring and crazy-making
\nand wonderful it is to have babies. And their voices sounded like my own. They
\nsounded like me. Scared like me, amazed like me, bemused like me.
\nDetermined to suck every moment – good and bad – out of every day with
\nthe new little beings that had changed their lives. Like me.<\/p>\n

So I started my own blog. I called it ‘the first days of the rest of my life’<\/a><\/em> 
\n(Her Bad Mother came some weeks later, after I realized that my original name – with its twee lower-case letters – sucked.) It was just going to be an online diary. I hadn’t yet discovered
\ncomments or inter-blog communication; I was writing just for me and for
\nthe baby that I called WonderBaby and for my husband and for friends and family. But when,
\nduring one of my daily visits to Jezer’s blog, I realized that I could
\ncomment on her posts – on anyone’s posts – the rabbit hole opened up
\neven further. And when she came to my<\/i> site and left a comment on one of
\nmy<\/i> posts, I landed at the bottom of that hole and recognized this whole
\nnew world for what it is: a place to not only find joy and solace in
\none’s own words, but to find those things in the words of others.<\/p>\n

And
\nalthough Jezer was the first (thank you, Jana!<\/i>), there are so many
\nothers that I don’t even know where to begin – or end – in singing
\ntheir <\/em> praises. So I’m not going to start. I can’t. I
\ncan’t do each of them justice in one short post and I would almost
\ncertainly forget somebody and then I would wake up in the middle of the
\nnight in a fit of guilt and self-loathing. You know who you
\nare; I visit you whenever I can and when I’m done laughing or crying or
\ngasping or nodding my head so vigorously that my teeth rattle over what
\nyou’ve written, I tell you so. (And if it’s not every post, it’s not
\nthat I’m not reading; sometimes I have to play catch-up.) You all make
\na huge difference in my life as a new mother. An extraordinary<\/i>
\ndifference.<\/p>\n

So, moms of the Internet? I salute you. And all you other moms out there, who build your communities in real, live spaces, and support each other with casseroles and margaritas and hugs? I salute you, too.<\/p>\n

\"P1020334.JPG\"<\/a><\/span>Happy Mother’s Day. Have some ice cream.<\/p>\n

Revised and updated from Her Bad Mother, May 2006<\/a>.<\/i> Copyright Catherine Connors 2006 – 2009.<\/i><\/p>\n

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