I have fallen out of the habit of responding to Mama Kat prompts. Surprisingly, no search party or anything was sent to make sure I had not fallen into blogging oblivion. Oh well. Her prompts this week are irresistible and, plus, I have already written posts that sort of respond to them. Easy peasy.
For instance, number 1: Instead of a resolution, some people choose a theme word to live by for the year. Choose a word for 2013 and tell us why you chose it. I didn’t know I even had a word until I went to write a “closing out 2012” post last night. A few hundred words later, I did have a word: direction. You can read about it here.
Number 2 is: Share any blogging tips you picked up in 2012. I picked this one up before 2012, but the best piece of advice I was given was from Scott Ginsberg, The Nametag Guy. He advised me to “make a date with the page.” Pick a periodicity: twice a week, weekly, every 2nd and 4th Tuesday, every month. Write then, whether you feel like it or not. I don’t think I have missed a Sunday blog in about three years. In addition, I finally switched from BlogSpot to WordPress. That was a long overdue move and it has definitely had benefits.
Number 3 is: Do you “favorite” tweets you love? Share your favorite tweets from 2012. I do favorite tweets. I have finally given in to favoriting tweets to sort of “like” them as I would on Facebook. That means I do a lot more favoriting than I used to. But my all time favorite is the sequence below. Not to give him a big head or anything, but I think our local meteorologist, Sean Parker, rocks and I always try to give him a Twitter shout-out. So when he tweeted about a local traffic situation only miles away from me, I said, “I’ll never get this kind of personalized news from @samchampion.” (And it’s important to note that I am a HUGE Sam fan; I was just trying to point out the benefits of local news presence.) As you can see below, Sam took exception to that:
And I have been happy ever since. 🙂
Prompt #4 was: “Resolutions. Love’em? Hate’em? Tell us why. Make one? Talk about your resolutions or goals for 2013.” Mainly, I still want to achieve my 2012 (and 2011…and 2010) goal of running a 5K in less than 30 minutes. This will be the year.
Lastly, prompt #5 was: Share your top 10 favorite quotes from your kids in 2012. I have teenagers, so I got nothin’ here. Except this gem that was tweeted by my 16 year old daughter this fall. I can’t find the actual tweet, and she may not know I saw it, but I did. Oh yes I did. And memorized it:
“My parents made me the awkward child I am today, and I don’t know if I can ever forgive them. #SorryNotSorry”
These are the kinds of tweets that could make Sean and/or Sam predict stormy weather ahead……….
Wife of one, Mom of two, Friend of many. My pronouns are she/her/hers.
good post. Blog tip is right on.
Thank you!!
Sorry it took me so long to get over to your blog today. I loved your post. I have teens too. Your daughters tweet was perfect. I know my children think they are a little awkward, but they love themselves. One of the best gifts we can give our children is confidence. The confidence to be themselves at every turn.
Thanks for the “like” on Facebook too. I appreciate it, and will like you too. I hope we get to know each other better!
That’s a great way to look at it — the confidence to be themselves. Nice to get acquainted with you!!
Thank you for the comment!! I got annoyed when my kids were little and people would say, “Just wait till they’re teens.” It is harder than I ever anticipated, but I still don’t see why it’s necessary to ruin people’s enjoyment of their toddlers/grade schoolers/tweens! My blog page on FB isn’t active yet – something that’s on my to do list!!!!
All the best for 2013. I’m sure you will conquer all..
Oh my gosh, that tweet is hysterical!! I would have died!
So glad to see you back in the mix!!
Yep – that’s me – blazing the way for everyone with younger kids to see the fantastic enhancement to parent/child communication that social media brings!!!! Seriously, so great to be “back in the mix” – I have missed everyone!