Since I started on my blogging journey just a few months ago, I have become completely infatuated with it.   Just ask my husband.  He probably thinks I’m having an affair.   My reply ”No honey, it’s not another man…I’m just blogging”  He constantly complains that he wants his wife back.   (Right here is where the photo of me hugging the computer monitor and my blog goes)

How infatuated am I?  I secretly go online to blog while working at my full-time job at a loading dock equipment company.  They probably wonder why my productivity is down.   But blogging is my little desert oasis in the land of semi trucks, construction equipment and steel toed boots.

So while trying to balance my family and my job, I’m also going back to school.   Even that’s been taken over by blogging….hmmmm….what class should I take…”oh I need html web design for my blog”….  

Blogging has touched every part of my life.   It’s my social outlet when the kids are driving me nuts.   It’s my sounding board for ideas.    It’s my journal when I just can’t say things out loud but need to get them off my chest.    It’s my Friday night in.   Blogging is driving me to finally finish my college degree.  It’s also driving me to finally pursue other options so I can be home with my children and blog.   

I feel that attending BlogHer would be an eye opening experience.   It’s a chance to focus on one thing I love.   I honestly can’t remember the last time I had time away just for myself.   It must have been over 7 years ago before I got married.    By attending BlogHer it would be great to learn from the best without all the distractions of work and home. 

I also love interacting online with other bloggers, but it would be great to meet these women in person.   You can put names with faces from pictures, but there is something about sitting down and having a face to face.  

I realize I am fortunate that this year BlogHer is within driving distance for me.   But it still seems so far away.   I’m from Detroit and a majority of our business is automotive.   I recently took a pay cut and a couple people were laid off.  So I don’t know what going to happen in the next few months.   I am constantly weight the opportunity of BlogHer and our finances.    It would be great to have that weight lifted off my shoulders!

So pretty please Extraordinary Mothers with a cherry on top – Pick Me!

P.S.  I just thought of one more reason I want to go to BlogHer in Chicago…because since my one and only visit to Chicago developed in to a love/hate relationship, I really want to give it another shot.   For my bachelorette party, we tried to keep it cheap and ended up staying at the Cass Hotel figuring we would only be at the hotel to sleep…the regular rooms were nasty, everyone hated it, we got moved up to the suites on the top floor, the hotel caught fire, I was crying on the street in front of the fire engine, we switched hotels, the first rooms we were given were occupied, then we didnt know you needed reservations for the piano bar we planned to go to, one girl busted her knee when she tripped.   It was just an up and down emotional rollarcoaster.   So I’d love to give Chicago another shot…please send me to BlogHer!

P.S.S.   Our computer is in our basement.   Its freezing…I need a Slanket!

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