Category: blogging

So happy to be back! 13 Lessons from When My Website Crashed

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13 Lessons from When My Website Crashed for 11 Days

If you visited this website in the past eleven days, you might have seen a disaster scene, a blank website, a ghost town. But I have good news. As you can see, I am back in business. When my website crashed, I learned quite a few lessons through the process of trying to get storiesofourboys.com back up. I am going to tell you all about it. For eleven whole days, storiesofourboys.com was wiped off the face of the internet. It […]

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My Sixth and Most Successful Year of Blogging

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My Sixth and Most Successful Year of Blogging

2020 was my sixth year on storiesofourboys.com. I blogged privately for seven years before that. This was my most successful year ever, in terms of how many people visited, read, and returned to my blog. Why though? Did I work harder on it? Write more? Get the word out better? No no. I worked on blogging a thousand times less over the past three years than I did in 2014, 2015, 2016, or 2017. Those were my hard working blog […]

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So this is the problem with blogging..

4 kids, blogging, stay-at-home mom

It turned out my life as a mom was actually the reason I loved writing. Mostly, I just love being a mom. Thanks to our current sky-high cultural expectations, I’m constantly feeling inferior because I am a house-keeping mom instead of a working mom, and I tried to find ways

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Day 3 of Jumping Into Fall: Shopping Deals We’re Loving This Week

being frugal, big family life, blogging, parenting

***When you purchase through links on my webpage, I do earn advertising fees.*** 12 Days of Jumping Into Fall & Recovering From Summer Day 3: Shopping, Creating, & Learning Online (In case you missed the first 2 days, here are the links: Day 1 House Cleaning Playlist and Day 2 Tackling Low Self Esteem.) Do you know what else you tend to do when you get your days back to yourself? Well, personally, I pop open my laptop and go gallivanting […]

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Why I’m Such a Crystal Paine Fan Girl

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Why I'm Such a Crystal Paine Fan Girl

******Disclosure: This post does contain affiliate links. When you purchase through these links, I will be paid advertising fees. All opinions are my own.******* When I started my blog, in 2008, I was only in it to provide news of our family to my husband while he was in Iraq for 15 months straight. Blogs provide the perfect spot for photos, stories, and videos, without bombarding your Facebook friends with such a vast amount of footage! It wasn’t until 2013 […]

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Mommy Moments Link-Up

blog hop, blogging, faith, family, parenting, stay-at-home mom
Mommy Moments

It’s no secret that motherhood has its seriousness and frustration as well as its joys. That’s why we are here. Life is much easier when traveled with companions! So mamas, let’s join together in the spirit of motherhood and share our moments together. We want to hear the happy, sad, tough, terrible, hilarious moments that make being a mother the best job in the world! Today I’m partnering with Faith of Life of Faith, as her guest co-host to bring you […]

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Stories is Included in 10exposed.com’s List of Top Mummy Blogs

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I just wanted to let you all know that I was so excited to be included in a new list of “Top Mummy Blogs to Follow in 2017” Wahoo! Who doesn’t want in on a list like that? Fun! There are a good number of mom bloggers on there who I truly admire. The best part was looking around at the pictures of the front pages, and wondering why mine looked so…..bare. Granted, you can’t see my sidebar or header in […]

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All the Articles I’ve Ever Written About Blogging

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Lately I’ve had a few different friends email me with questions about starting their own blog, setting up a blog Facebook page, and making all sorts of blogging decisions. I am certainly no blogging expert, but with 3 years of public blogging now under my belt, there are a few good tips that I’ve picked up on. So whether you are a brand new blogger or an experienced one looking for new ideas, here is a list of all the […]

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Hot Mess Blog Hop Week 2

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The Hot Mess blog hop is for all bloggers, even if you don’t actually think you are a hot mess. But you gotta be a hot mess at SOMETHING. No one is good at EVERYTHING. Right? Link up your messies! We are all a hot mess sometimes, in need of God’s grace. Only 1 Rule!!!  It’s a family show here. If it’s not PG or G, I’ll have to delete ya from the hop. Bonus points if you follow me […]

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How I Used Crowdfire to Gain 50 New, Legit Followers/Month

blog, blogging, social media

Oh, I remember the simpler times back when social media was just a way to catch up with old friends. I poured over old photos and baby stories and shook my head at the crazies. Then I became a blogger, and I realized that social media is actually a prime place to reach people. If you are interested in reaching more people via social media for your blog or business, be sure to check out this article that I wrote […]

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