My Blog – Not About Money

It’s been a very long time since I have posted anything on my blog.  I started this blog because I wanted to find a way to make money from home.  I also love to write, so I thought that it would be an excellent way to do both

Homeschooling is still my passion…

Homeschooling was and still is my passion, so of course I thought that I could write and help other homeschooling moms.  I looked all around the blogosphere for how to make a profitable blog.  What did I have to do get people to my blog and make money while at the same time help people?

I got lost in the mechanics of building a blog, trying to understand how it worked. Nevermind that most of it was way above my head and I would never really understand it.  I scoured the internet to find how to increase my presence, how to give advice that people would need, and how to create things that I could sell.

None of it worked.  And how in the world was I going to tell people how to figure out problems that they had when I have figured very little out for myself?  Who am I to give advice to other people about homeschooling?  Yes, I have many years of experience homeschooling.  Firelizard (previously SuperStuffy) is now 16.  But have I figured out homeschooling?  Not in the least little bit

I found myself trying to fabricate posts, trying to write something that people would like.  But every time I sat down to write, it was so hard to find what to write about.  Even when I could come up with something to write, then I would have to make sure that I edited it correctly, put it together with all kinds of lovely pictures, and take time to post it to Pinterest.  I lost interest in doing all of that.

It’s been so long…

It has been two years since I wrote a blog post.  My life has been crazy busy, and I just didn’t feel like I had anything to share that would help anyone

So why am I starting again, now?  At this point in time, (spring 2024), unless you have an established blog, there is pretty much no way that you will make money with just a blog.  I had been considering transferring my blog back to a free WordPress site, but there is no guarantee that my blog would transfer, no guarantee that WordPress even offers free websites anymore.  I didn’t want to lose everything that I have done, so I forked over the money to pay for hosting again.

But I think now I feel a little bit freer to write, knowing that I’m not trying to make money or to make my blog “work”.  I still want to write, and I think that there are a lot of things that I could say.  But I no longer want to write to please anybody else.  I’m just going to use my blog to express what’s in my mind and my heart, without trying to fit it into a category or to manufacture a blog post out of thin air

I honestly have no idea if there is anyone reading my blog.  I never figured out how to use analytics or understood how to follow my “followers”.  The only evidence that I know that someone is accessing my blog is that every few days I get an email from Blue Host telling me that a comment was marked as spam.  It’s annoying, but I am glad that I have that in place so that I can monitor those comments

Maybe someday I’ll try to sell my projects

Maybe someday I might try to sell my crochet projects from my website, but that’s not my main goal.  I’m just going to write.  If someone likes what I write, that will be icing on the cake.  So I’m not going to have a specific schedule, I’m not going to write about specific topics, I might not even write about homeschooling.  This is just going to be me, up close and personal

If anyone is reading this post, I’ll talk to you again soon!