Blogging with children

Even though my blog will focus on a lot of technical information, it is still my personal blog. Hopefully I can keep the signal to noise ratio reasonable within the categories, but it might be a bit low overall. I realize a blog is supposed to have some focused purpose, but I’m breaking the rules a bit. I guess I’ll just have to wait and see how it goes.

I’ve had this blog for roughly four months now and it is interesting what a challenge it has been. Between full time work and two young children it is difficult to find any free time. Creating content an hour here and there is difficult. To all those creating content my hat is off to you!

There seems to be a stigma about bloggers that they are just a bunch of lazy slackers sitting in pajamas all day lackadaisically creating posts. I’d like to challenge this stereotype! Creating content is work, and not easy work at that. It is time that could be spent doing something fun. World of Warcraft anyone? Or maybe SkiFree :-)

With kids, it is even tougher as the days are long. From early morning until late evening it is difficult to keep up with everything that needs to be done. Between a kid’s demand for attention, baths, hassles about bedtime, diaper changes, sickness, and all those things a parent has to do, free time is precious. Blogging with children is hard :-) Don’t get me wrong though, I love my kids beyond all else and enjoy every minute I have with them!

For some reason I’ve decided to do this on top of everything else. I just hope my wife won’t get sick of me too quickly. I’m hoping to get back into the swing of things after the holidays and make some more content. We’ll see if I can pull it off ;-)