VOTE FOR ME!

It's election day! Or at least that's what it looks like to me...

You know how Election time rolls around in your city/county/state/country and it's like the world explodes in red, white and blue. There are signs every where and all of a sudden your city is the perfect poster board for a campaign and by day three you're already wishing all the signage and personal advertisements were down? Lately, that's the way the mommy blogosphere has looked to me. It's plastered in pastels and ads all screaming the same ad-age, "VOTE FOR US!" Now I give the mommies one thing and one thing only here, props for remembering the fact that your blog is about being a mommy and the life that comes with it, so the 'me' to 'us' switch, total kudos. But that's about it.

See when MF got into blogging in general, it was (and still remains) to be able to bond with other moms, to listen and look into their lives, have a sense of "it happens to someone else too", and maybe most importantly to help mold her sense of how she does and doesn't want to parent. Taking and leaving whatever advice, rules, and style she wants from her ever widening set of mommy bloggy friends. But as I dink around the the mommy blogosphere lately it's really started to bother me. Maybe it's the Christmas spirit getting into me, but holy moly blogging has gone commercial and I'm thinking that it's a train I don't want to catch. It's a whole hierarchy thing and it blows my mind. Everyone is competing to be the best mommy blog, have the cutest kid, get the raddest giveaways. Pardon the Not-A-Mommy for a moment but where did the kids go? Your kiddos are the reason I look at your blogs, and so are your trials and triumphs of mommyhood. I read your blogs because I connect with you on some level even without having given birth myself. I see what I will and won't try and yes sometimes make the large realization that I am not ready for the plunge with kids that you brave women have already taken. No siree I'm still ok with handing them back at the end of the day. And now here you are campaigning to be the BEST mommy blog around. I'm not sure that's how it works though, in my honest opinion it's a total word of mouth thing, one friend reads your little (or not little) blog for the first time and then one of two things happen: either they give a little shrug and the word meh barely passes their lips or their brain goes OMGmustreadeverypostthiswomanisamazing/hysterical/brilliant and then when they are done they tell a friend who has the same one or other moment and the cycle continues. It's one or the other but campaigning, all it does is give someone the option. But you know what some of the top mommy blogs, I bet they didn't campaign much, in fact most of them probably rose to the top on accident, and would probably tell you they never thought it would go so far. For example, Single Dad Laughing ok ok ok so he isn't a mommy but maybe it should be the parenting blogosphere instead, because this guy shot his little star to fame in a heart beat. How? He accidentally went viral. Like the Black Plague viral, and well if you have no idea what I'm talking about then just think about it like this, you've just been introduced to someone who falls into the same category as George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Ryan Reynolds, we're talking Top 100 sexy men, and this guy is on the list or at least he should be and in the mommy bloggy world, he would be. Point is people, campaign or not your blog will go where it goes and do what it do.