As I talked about a few weeks ago, I have started blogging less. You can see all the reasons why here. This doesn’t mean I have anything less to write about. In fact, this morning, I sat down to write a blog post and got immediately overwhelmed because I have SO MANY TOPICS to tackle. Some of the topics seem downright ancient (Harlow and Mazzy finished kindergarten and third grade what seemed like eons ago) but writing about new things (like our week in the tiny house upstate) seems like jumping ahead in time, making it harder to jump back.
So. In the interest of catching up, I am going to post a list of things that have happened in my life that I’ve been meaning to write about. Some of them I might flesh out into a longer blog post and some them just might live and die on this list.
31 Potential Blog Post Titles
1. Harlow Kills it as a Cat in her Dance Recital
2. Mazzy Shocks Her Mom by Memorizing Lines on the Sly Before her Acting Class Performance
3. For our First Time as Parents, Vacation Actually Felt Like Vacation in Mexico
4. We Refinished the Attic in our Summer House and Now the Girls are Taking it Over
5. How My Lasik Surgery is Holding Up Nine Months Later
6. The Best Thing About Girl Scouts is the One on One Mother Daughter Trips
7. My Favorite Family Friendly Restaurants in NYC
8. Insta2yearold Should Be Everyone’s Preferred News Source
9. Mazzy’s Ongoing Investigation into Santa and the Tooth Fairy
10. Remember When I Said I was Writing this Blog to Show My Kids One Day? That Day is Here.
11. 10 Stories that Have Become Mazzy and Harlow Family Legends
12. I Joined a Gym for the first time in Five Years!
13. Is Mazzy Aging Out of Day Camp?
14. Harlow’s Transition from Shy Kid to Full On Extrovert
15. Mood Boards for My NYC Bedroom and Living Room
16. Mazzy and I Can’t Get it Together to Write our Children’s Book
17. 10 Things that are Totally Awesome about the Big Kid Years
18. Where Did My 8yo’s Attitude Come From and Is it Going Away Any Time Soon???
19. Harlow Learns to Swim!
20. The Day I Made Coffee on Good Morning America
21. Do Sibling Relationships get Harder as Your Kids Get Older?
22. Plane Travel with an 8 and 5-year-old is Amazing
23. 10 Books to Increase Confidence in Young Girls
24. Celebrating Our 11 Year Anniversary By Finally Writing About the Trip we Took on Our 10 Year Anniversary
25. Is Technology Ruining our Children Even More than We Thought it Would?
26. Watching TV Together as a Family is My New Favorite Thing
27. The Day I Screamed My Head Off and Then Felt Like a Shittiest Mom Ever
28. The Time I Went to Montreal to Speak on a Panel that was Cancelled
29. 20 Things You Can Do for Your Kids that Feel Special but are Super Easy to Pull Off
30. The World is Ending
31. How My Weekend Compares with Allie’s Weekend
32. Was My Israel Trip Part of a Cult Indoctrination or Were They Just Really Nice People?
33. Help! My Kids Can’t Go to Sleep without Me Lying Down Next to Them!
34. Are Pop-Up Experiences Destroying Instagram?
35. We Got Outdoor Furniture!
36. Where the Fuck are We Going to Live in September???
Okay. So after reading this list, which of these ideas would you guys like me to make into full blog posts most?
Honestly, the titles ALL grabbed my attention so I’m kind of hoping you will get to all of them (maybe, please??)
I vote for these: How your weekend compares with Allie’s weekend, sibling relationships getting harder, 10 stories that have become Mazzy and Harlow legend and the attic. Please and thank you. Also totally hanging out for the finished apartment makeover!! Wherever you actually live in September haha
I have sooo many I want to hear about but I’m partial to the one about the world ending, cuz I need help in how to process the dumpster fire that is our country and always enjoy your perspective, as well as #27 and what the hell is a pop up experience on Instagram? Am I this out of touch?!?!
Most of these sound really interesting! In order, the top 5 posts I’m most interested in are:
29, 25, 19, 26, 27
ALL OF THEM! But if I had to pick, here are my top 17:
#27, #5, #9, #10, #11, #14, #16, #18, #20, #24, #25, #28, #30, #31, #32, #33, #36
Last one
Here are my $0.02. Personally, I love your writing and would love to read all of those. But I thought of something. So your focus now is #thebigkidyears. Why not write those that most closely relate to that experience? You can include life stuff here and there, but as a mom of big kids, I love your perspective on big kid years topics. If they all relate and my advice doesn’t help… well then good luck with that. 😁
My favorites would be 9, 13, 14, 18, 21, 23, 27, 29
I know it’s a lot but it’s so hard to choose!
27. I am a quiet person by nature but this summer because lots of external stress (and my kids both being in two awful phases) I have actually screamed at my kids and it suuuuccccckkkks.
Oh my gosh. All of these posts sound awesome, and I have to say: This post form you makes me feel SO much better. I am a million posts behind, too. Just today I was thinking “Wow. I really need to blog about our spring break trip to Hawaii..since it happened in MARCH.” Then I realized: “OH CRAP.. I still need to blog about our spring break trip to Disney that happened in March…of 2017!!”
Help.
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These are the numbers I actually tried to click on before remembering the posts don’t exist…yet:
23, 27, 4, 5, 6, 31, 32, 33, 29, 36
This is a great list! I think I’m most drawn to the ones about you and the lense of being a fully realized person with kids (like the gym post) and the stuff about the whole family.
4 6 11 13 15 18 23 27 33 36
but the answer to 18 is No
i say it’s okay to stress about 36 but not 33
I would love to hear about 6 to know how Girl Scouts is different in NY than TX
and 15 because i love hearing about other people decorating ideas
23 and anything about how you have made your girls confident in them selves is awesome!!!
Just write! doesn’t matter what it is! You can do it!
Honestly, I really hope you write most of these, especially most of the 2nd half of the list
My big ones were
the 8 year old attitude (b/c I also have an 8 year old girl and whoa nelly, attitude!)
The attic one
The world is ending
Your weekend compared to allie’s
Watching TV together! (watching AFV or ninja warrior, or jeopardy with my 3 kids has become a favorite pastime)
Oh and the lying down one to get your kids to sleep!
But, again, I would read almost all of the topics you listed!
I enjoy the blog very much, so thank you!
I would love to read all of these, but when reading the list, it reminded me of Friend’s episode titiles – the one where they join a gym! The one where Mazzy ages out of day camp!
Thanks for making me smile 🙂
4, 9, 18, 21, 25, 27, 29 and 36. Good luck!
So the one about Allie is interesting because not to long ago I wondered if you knew her family and how close your relationship has gotten with her since starting to work together. Anyway here is what grabbed my attention. 6, 9, 10, 13, 14, 17, 18, 21, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31, 33.
9-12, 17, and 29
My thought. . . Break them into categories. The girls, Personal, vacations/travel, House.
Rotate. Pick one from each category and work your way through the every growing list.
So many great topics. But definitely #4,14,31. Love reading your posts. Thanks for still making your presence here.
I started writing a list and then I realised I was writing numbers consecutively. All the numbers. I would be so interested to read about the big kid issues though – the changes in relationships and attitudes (oh my goodness the attitudes) as well as the activities they grow out of and the fun stuff you guys do and how vacation changes. My children are similar ages to yours (plus a bonus one) and I’m veering between celebrating and appreciating the awesomeness of these little humans and wanting to sit in a darkened room weeping over their baby pictures because I don’t recognise them at all at the height of their vile moments. I feel like we have journeyed with you sharing so many experiences and I love the humor but heartfelt validity of your observations and insights.
I was pregnant with #3 during Harlow’s first year and her off the charts adorableness made me excited to go through that again when I was internally freaking out that I would never cope with three. I guess I’m kinda hoping this space can do that now we’re fully in #thebigkidyears with all the highs and lows. This is a place we can breathe out knowing it’s not just our kids!
I’m sure I would enjoy all of them but here are the ones that caught my interest!:
9, 10, 11, 15, 18, 21, 23, 24, 29, 31
So many interesting topics! But because I told myself that I would limit my choices to five, here they are: 4, 9, 27, 31, and 36. Good luck!
I’d love to hear about “Where the F you’re going to live!” and well, actually all of them. 🙂
1. Harlow Kills it as a Cat in her Dance Recital
2. Mazzy Shocks Her Mom by Memorizing Lines on the Sly Before her Acting Class Performance
4. We Refinished the Attic in our Summer House and Now the Girls are Taking it Over
9. Mazzy’s Ongoing Investigation into Santa and the Tooth Fairy
14. Harlow’s Transition from Shy Kid to Full On Extrovert
18. Where Did My 8yo’s Attitude Come From and Is it Going Away Any Time Soon???
32. Was My Israel Trip Part of a Cult Indoctrination or Were They Just Really Nice People?
36. Where the Fuck are We Going to Live in September???
My vote is for:
9, 18, 21, 23, 29
7, 9, 23, 25, 30….but they all sound great! Thank you!
Most of these sound interesting, but my vote goes to the ones that are most relatable as a momma to 2 little girls (5.5 yrs and 5 mo) and make us feel like we are all in it together – 17, 21, 23, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31.
I also think 6, 9, 15, and 36 are great topics 🙂
These are the ones I wouldn’t miss!! Specially the investigation into Santa!!!:
7. My Favorite Family Friendly Restaurants in NYC
9. Mazzy’s Ongoing Investigation into Santa and the Tooth Fairy
11. 10 Stories that Have Become Mazzy and Harlow Family Legends
17. 10 Things that are Totally Awesome about the Big Kid Years
21. Do Sibling Relationships get Harder as Your Kids Get Older?
9, 13, 17, 26, 33 – all relatable to me:) I have a 4 1/2 year old and an 8 year old. Love reading your posts about transitioning to Big Kid Years because I’m beginning that phase as well.
Voting may be closed, but I circled 9, 26 & 27 as my top 3.
Also interested in – 3, 5, 10, 15, 17, 21, 22, 25, 31, 35.
I do feel guilty that I dropped off reading for awhile, but these topics get me excited to “tune in” I do love following you on Instagram!
#36 hahahahahaha!