Welcome to the first day of our Back to Blogging event! This week is all about getting you back into a posting and commenting routine now that summer is over. And, as added incentive, one of our lucky participants will walk away with Thelma and Louise, our fabulous washer and dryer set.
To recap, here is how you can participate:
Play along! Write a post using the daily prompts we described here and then link your post on SITS each day this week. All posts should mention and link to our sponsors, Standards of Excellence, Westar Kitchen and Bath, and Florida Builder Appliances, somewhere in the text.
Discusss! Join the daily discussion happening in the SITS Girls Community in BlogFrog.
Like! Click the Like button on our sponsor’s Facebook pages: Standards of Excellence, Westar Kitchen and Bath, and Florida Builder Appliances.
Follow! Follow Standards of Excellence on Twitter.
Tweet! Send out the following message on Twitter:
I’m getting #Back2Blogging w/ the @SITSGirls. And thanks to @SOESupply, maybe Thelma & Louise can come live w/ me! http://bit.ly/aad1L5
Our Back to Blogging event will remain open until this Sunday, September 19 at midnight PST. This means that you have the next 7 days to tweet, Facebook, BlogFrog, and link up your posts. Contest entries can be left on any of the daily posts this week. Just be sure to leave a separate comment whenever you Like our sponsors on Facebook, follow them on Twitter, or tweet the giveaway. Each of these qualifies as one entry into the sweepstakes.
So let’s get started! Mama Kat is going to kick off today’s task and re-publish the very first post she ever wrote:
The first post I ever wrote is called “Mother Hen” and was originally published on August 7th, 2007:
Maile has surprised me at how nurturing she is with Kainoa.
When we pack up to leave she double and triple checks to make sure he’s coming with us and not staying home alone.
When scary old Uncle Bad Ass offered to adopt him, Maile was the only one who did NOT think it sounded like a good idea.
When Kainoa had his heel pricked to draw blood for his jaundice she nearly started cried.
She calls him “little guy” and can’t keep her hands off him. Who knew she had it in her? Such a sweetheart!!
I love this post because:
- The pictures are cute and OHMYGOODNESS my kids were so little!
- It’s short and sweet.
- It tells a story.
- It still sounds like me and it makes me happy to see I have not lost my voice.
What I would change about this post:
- Today I would round the corners on the pictures and make them bigger, though I think they look fine without being overly edited with effects.
- I would mix the text in between the photos instead of having all of the photos first and all of text last.
- I wish it was an actual first post that talks about why I’m started blogging. It doesn’t feel like a true beginning to me.
- I would change the title to something a little more SEO friendly.
Altogether I absolutely treasure posts like these. I’m glad I started blogging so soon after Kainoa was born. I only wish I’d had the foresight to begin blogging when I was pregnant with Maile.
Now it’s your turn! Re-publish your very first post and share your thoughts on it. Then, come back and link below for a chance to take Thelma & Louise home with you.
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Sunday from Adventures in Extreme Parenthood is helping us to kick off Day 1 of the Back To Blogging Challenge in BlogFrog. Join her and our entire community as we discuss the evolution of our blogs.
I began blogging in December of 2008 after talking with a number of friends from my church who had also began blogging. They all encouraged me to make the leap into blogging after insisting that my humorous and touching stories I would often share with them would also be a help to other mothers like myself raising children with special needs. As it turns out they could not have been more right…
To continue reading more of Sunday’s discussion, click here.
Happy Back to Blogging all!
Thank you girls for these tips & all of your hard work!
It is such a cute post! You have beautiful children
I am not playing, but I had a look at my first post too (http://mauzziemuses.blogspot.com/2010/04/journey-to-another-life.html); and it does not sound like a beginning either.
Happy Monday, everyone!
Hi! I’m not interested in the giveaway, but I am doing the Back to Blogging! I had a blast looking at my first post!
I enjoyed reading Mama Kat’s post!
Here is mine: http://littlebitquirky.blogspot.com/2010/09/get-back-to-blogging-my-first-post.html
I am so excited to be participating in this event.
And I too wish that I had started blogging long before I actually did. So many things happened to me, that I wish were documented.
Awesome!!! This is SO great! Off to go check out some firsts posts!
-CK
This is going to be so much fun! Happy Monday Ladies!
Good Morning, All. Recovering from a leg injury today.
Hope you all had a great weekend!
So looking forward to the black to blogging week!
Awesome initiative! You ladies rock!!
And as always, if you need any help increasing your blog’s traffic or easy HTML tutorials, you know where to come!
Don’t forget to sign up to BMBF while it lasts..(just a few more hours open).. and also check out our blog tutorial for today!
happy Monday!
Twitter: greatfun4kids
says:
My first post was a Fairy Party. Boom. Straight in.
I wanted to have a “website” to share all my party ideas. So I started a blog. I had no idea about blogging, no clue how to attract readers or even how to comment!
My blog idea was to just be all about the fun stuff, parties and games and family fun ideas.
I look at this post now and I want to fiddle with it. I have a permanent link to all my parties in my sidebar, as my blog still has a lot of fun stuff going on (I called it greatfun4kids, duh!)
But very early on I started sharing my journey with depression, so my blog took on a more grounded real-life edge.
I can’t be SouleMama. I’m just too lazy and crazy.
But I have other stuff to share that is valuable. So I think my blog started pretty much on the right foot, and keeps evolving all the time. I might go back and reload those photos tho!
Hello Ladies!! Hope you all had a great weekend! And hope the week starts out well for you!
Yeah!! I really am excited about this!
Twitter: untypicallyjia
says:
Awesome challenge! I honestly didn’t even know which of my posts came first!
Alright, here’s the dealio. I’m totally up for this challenge. TOTALLY want to do it. Want the washer and dryer to, but that’s beside the point.
Here’s my Problem!! I have NO IDEA how to re-upload my first post so all the pics and such show up. I’m a total technology dumbass. (not mentioning that my first month of posts were NOTHING to write home about).
Anyway, anyone wanna love me enough to help a sister out? K, thanks! You’re the best!
Happy Monday, hopefully I’ll be joinging this party sooner than later.
You can just repost it as a new post. Just copy and paste it into a new one.
You can copy and paste the HTML if you want the formatting the same too.
In Blogger just go to Edit Posts and go to the first post then select edit post and then you can copy and then paste into a new post.
I’m sure there are so many ways to do this but that’s on suggestion!
Happy Back to Blogging everyone! Off to meet new bloggy peeps!
Looks like fun! Happy Monday, everyone!
Love the idea of back to blogging week!!
Awesome idea.
http://captivusliving.blogspot.com/2010/09/paris-2010.html
Love the post. My first was not wordy at all. Boy I have changed!
YOu kids are adorable!
Twitter: geezees
says:
Happy Monday everyone!!
Feeling a little grumpy this morning, so please forgive my grounchiness…but…
I really like the idea of taking part in some of the days of this challenge. But having to link to 3 sponsors in each post is quite a lot, especially when you’re not eligable to win the competition.
Can we still link up without the links in every post and just not be entered into the competition?
It’s an awesome competition I agree and well done to the SITS girls for getting such great sponsors and the oppotunity to win for the US participants.
Oh yeah and Happy Monday (or grumpy Monday depending on how much coffee you’ve had – I obviously need some more!)
Have a lovely day all,
Jade
PS I’ve posted lots of photos of men in kilts today!
Twitter: SITSGirls
says:
Mondays are sometimes all about being grumpy. Never apologize, Jade!
As for the Back to Blogging event, you can absolutely participate and not link to the sponsors. We’d rather have you blogging with us, rather than just sitting out on the sidelines.
I haven’t reposted it but my first post was about wine. Mt second post was about why I was blogging. Hmmmmm…. wonder what that says about me?
Hope you week starts off on the best foot!
Happy Back to blogging – it’s been fun remembering which bloggy friends I’ve made through SITS – many of whom are participating in this week. It’s great getting to know more about them in this way! I really hope people will take the time to stop by
I can’t seem to make the link to my flashback post show up on the commentluv thin. So, here it is http://akissandapeck.blogspot.com/2010/09/sits-back-to-blogging-my-first-post.html
Off to read the others!
Hope everyone has a great Monday – I’m off and running already. Another week begins…
Twitter: BlondeDuckie
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Have a magical Monday!
Twitter: itrocks2bmom
says:
Come check out my totally awesome recap on my first post. Well, maybe not totally awesome. It’s comical though. I promise, you’ll get a kick out it for a Monday morning read
Woo hoo let the challenge begin!
http://itrocks2bmom.blogspot.com/2010/09/back2blogging-challenge-day-1.html
So fun and a great way to start the week! Just finished posting on the BlogFrog Community, and it looks like this is going to be awesome.
Now those really are cute pics
Have a great week everyone!
Best wishes, Carla.
Hope everybody had a great weekend! Happy Monday!
BC’s last post: My Ten Dollar Dress
What a great idea! Happy Monday everyone!
I’m not participating in the Back-to-Blogging event in honor of my birthday and wedding (too much going on!)
BUT! I DO have an awesome giveaway today! Pajamas!!!!!
Check out my first blog post:http://www.decoybetty.com/2010/09/my-very-first-blog-post-titled-i-suck.html
I’m a day late and a $ short as usual, since I wrote today’s post over the weekend and it’s already up. I’ll try to join in later this week!
Twitter: xtremeparnthood
says:
I can’t wait to get the Back 2 Blogging party started today with all my SITStahs!
Please be sure to come link up your first post with me at the SITS BlogFrog Community!
Ooh. I love me some me some appliances. Pitter patter.
This sounds interesting. Off to hit some first posts.
Happy monday, ladies. It feels so good to be home on mondays =D yes, I’m home today!
My first post didn’t have any pictures or anything like that, and it’s kind of a downer… But it’s where I was in my life.
I Tweeted about the event! Looking forward to this week.
http://twitter.com/mommyboots/status/24374254911
That’s a great idea. I looked up my first post. I republished once but I never actually edited and made it better. That’s next because the post inspired me to blog.
Here is is from 2007: righteousness and justice.
http://tinyurl.com/2ftqbha
I had to post about the conference I attended this weekend today, but you can find my first post here: http://mommiecooks.com/2010/02/24/pizza-with-whatevers-in-the-fridge/
I definitely feel like I’ve come a long way from day one!
This seems really fun! I so remember the frost blog post I ever wrote…and from time to time I will go back to my first blog to pick up a craft I did to post on my current blog…like today!
http://monkednfifed.blogspot.com/2010/09/t-shirt-printing.html
T shirt printing!
Happy Monday!
alison
thanks for hosting back to blogging! i am super excited to be a part of this journey! i think i am continually growing as a person, blogger, friend, mother due to blogs i read. i love making new friends and there are so many amazing people out in blog land! here is my post:
http://dessertordiet.blogspot.com/2010/09/back-to-blogging.html
have a great day everyone! happy happy monday!!! xo
Good morning! I hope everyone had a great weekend!
I really wish I had started blogging sooner. Though, my family blog has been around longer than my Things I Can’t Say blog. Hmmm, I wonder what that post looked like.
Oooh, fun stuff! I’ve got mine up! Happy Monday, all!