Showing posts with label blogs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blogs. Show all posts

favorite bloggers.

day 19 might be a favorite.  top five favorite blogs.

here's my routine, when i set down at my computer in the AM, i automatically go to these five blogs.
lisa is my friend. we met in the blogosphere, and have met once but i just really like her.  we often exchange texts throughout the day from everything to working out to kid stuff...lately she has overhauled my blog design which a love.  she always has a different hair color, her little girl has the best name and i feel really blessed to know her.  i think she's pretty great.
amanda and danny had a hard time carrying a baby to term and after three losses, she started writing about her latest pregnancy which resulted in sweet arlo.  she has a great eye for design [check out arlo's nursery!] and is just funny.  when i read her writing, i imagine myself just talking to her and she telling me about whatever she happens to be writing.
lisa is my go to for presents for anyone really special in my life, her jewelry is beautiful. she shares her family and life throughout instagram and her blog.  she has two sweet boys and has an eye for all things creative and fashion.  oh my.  i think i read somewhere that she gets dressed every day, like dressed, put together and make up.  i mean, that's a reason to like [or hate!] her in itself!
because her pictures and family and everything she does is pretty much amazing.  i wanna move into her house.  or at least lie to people and tell them i live there.  she's always got a project up her sleeve and recently built a chicken coop.  did i mention she has five kids?  five kids and chickens.  and some days i don't have enough time to blog.  chickens?  i can't imagine.  
if her photos aren't enough to draw you in, you will be mesmerized by her words.  she is creative and a mama of three.  i think she shines such a positive light on things that are really hard and puts an optimistic spin on things that we all need to hear and read.  her pictures tell stories and we could all learn a lot from her words.  her blog is more than a blog to me, it is a story unfolding that i drink in.

of course, there are a TON more i love, but these five are my favorites [lately] for so many reasons, many of which i listed above.

tell me more.  tell me more!
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on tuesday i lost my mind.

my word.  for some reason, i lost my mind last weekend and thought i could redesign my blog in new, fun colors.  an hour later, i shut the computer, had no header (and left it that way all week) and wanted to cry.  that superb attitude carried on throughout the week, hence the lack of post.

i was mad at my blog.  we almost broke up.
then we had a comin' to jesus.
i decided to change my attitude, and what you see is the new result.
(after five + hours of labor)

if you charge a fortune for blog design...GOOD.  you are worth every penny (i say, go higher!), because this girl who has no clue what in the heck she is doing...thinks you are really really smart.  i didn't get your brain, but i could babysit your baby with the best of them.

i promise to improve my mood (and my blog) by monday and then the world (or morrison lane, rather) will be a happier place.

p.s.  i also am going on less than three hours of sleep and no coffee and am blogging to you from inside in a bathing suit.
see, told you = lost my mind.

thank you LORD, it's friday.

have a good weekend, friends.
what do you think of the new design so far?
i thrive on input.  talk to me.
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posting with meaning dot com.

i would like my blog to be huge.  to grow.  and to be lovely.  


a blog where readers come early with their coffee and scour over every word from any post that i have posted.


where readers come from far and wide and no matter where you are at that moment in your life, you can find something that i have written that you can feel in your bones.

i want my words to inspire, to make you laugh and make your time spent while while here at morrison lane heart happy.  that's what i want.

so this means, nonsense post where i feel like i am posting to just keep up and post to just post -
are not going to happen anymore.  

i want to live my life with more meaning.
i want everything that i do mean something.
especially here.

i have a ton on my plate, just like you.  we all have way too much going on, and between being a wife, working, taking care of me (more on this later)
i need to not 
just set behind the computer for the sake of feeling like i need to post.  
does that make any sense?  

i need to be connected for real more.  like not connected on line.
like send my friends real mail.

Source: google.com via Alicia on Pinterest

a letter with a stamp.
tell them how much they mean to me. 
tell them that they mean so much to me that i sat down, closed the computer and told them 
and then followed through and mailed the darn thing.


when brad and i are hanging out, i want to be all in.  
 no computer, no cell phone.  
just me and him and time.
same with my girlfriends.

do you know how i feel?
do you feel like me?
am i making any sense in 2012?
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discouragment; then ENcouragment.

so i have been having some blog discouragement lately.  i feel like i am so close to having "IT" but then i don't.  then i read those that write perfectly and i hang on every word and i want to be just like them...and then there are those blogs that are the most creative ever and i want to be more talented.  and then there are some with everything and then i think, "well dang, i just need to shut this here puppy down, because who cares really?"  but then i remind myself i do this for me and if no one reads, it really is for me...

but i want to reach out.

i want to inspire.

by my words.  by my pictures.  by me.

but then i get discouraged and have a poor blog-attitude and NOTHING good ever comes out of that.

but here's the great things about being a blogger and being a part of something bigger than myself.  (you hear that jessica?  bigger than YOURSELF.  its not all about YOU.)  just when i was having the urge to "shut her down" and just go back to my preblogging days...

i get on twitter and get all encouraged and inspired by these girls kind words:

melissa at {pineapple lily}.
twitter:  pineapplelily

liz at [behing the scenes 2009].
twitter:  lizbedwards


ashlyn at .
twitter:  loveashlyn

hollie ann at (hollie takes notes).

and then i really felt better.

and then sunday i read this sweet blog by gussy sews.
twitter:  gussysews

and i felt encouraged and not alone in this little blogosphere that can be kinda lonely at times.

and


girls, 
i just wanted to say thank you.  really.  i mean it from the bottom of my heart.  it's funny how life works...just when you need "it" life has a way of working itself out and then you get what you need.  and i am thankful for many things, but today on this monday...i am especially thankful for you girls.  your words.  your blogs.  you.  i feel more blessed today because of each and every one of you.  it's nice to be told you are great every once in a while.  and i think just that...you are all great.
love,
morrisonlane
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