I do know I have started a dozen things and here I am starting a blog now. Creative spontaneity sparks, and I follow unless The Lord points me elsewhere.

5 Reasons I’m starting a blog

  1. The amount of editing hours YouTube takes is not attainable for our current season of life!
  2. We still want to share things. Tutorials, lists, photos, family rhythms, etc. I have a starting place of ideas to go off of and I will start there. We know demands don’t always need to be met. But we do enjoy the demand of questions “Will you make extra and sell a few?” “”Can you share how you learned how to make those, I’d love to learn for my family!” “Would love if you shared details of xyz”. Sorting out the desire to share & what we have time for has landed us to try a blog. There is value I hope mothers and fathers can take away as we share (mostly I, unless max is showing a build).
  3. I want to be able to have a place to drop galleries of photos when I get film developed, and instagram is more of a 24 hour drop to consume quickly and be done with it. If you don’t see it in 24-48 hours during its algorithm spike then it’s gone. Blogs are full of images ready to be pinned on Pinterest (with keywords) ready to be searched by people looking for just the thing you’re posting about. Granted, I have pinned instagram photos directly for a few years as well…. I just find they work differently with key words, and description when pinned. This might not make sense and that’s okay. Basically I cannot get behind the constant content creation of instagram. Where as Pinterest is content creation and then searchable and usable forever. Instagram and FB and Tiktok is constant production.
  4. Saving How-To’s to an instagram highlight is only useful for the people who have already seen it and plan to refer back to it. Or people visiting your profile and happen to want to look through your highlights. Where as on a blog I can pin things on Pinterest and since Pinterest is a search engine it is wayyy more helpful to people. How to make a mud kitchen? How to make an herbal extract? Family snack ideas? Family photos on film inspo? Pinterest is the answer! Instagram is more of “look what we did”, and then only your current followers benefit or consume it. And they may not even want to consume it. Pinterest is a gold mine of searching and saving and skimming though websites and blogs that YOU searched for.
  5. Explaining “How-To’s” or any of the other ideas I plan to share with beautiful images comes way more naturally for me than explaining in a video.

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