BlogHer '07: What you shared with us!
Margalit of Out of My Mind with Worry is dealing with changes in her family, and blogging about the world of difference it makes. She wrote:
So here's the deal. The Boy is feeling very down and suicidal. So much so that he asked to go to the hospital. He's never done that before, but this is a huge, monumental step in the right direction, and I'm very proud of him. But that doesn't change the fact that he's in a very depressive time and he needs to be safe and he doesn't feel that he can be safe at home. Hence my complete lack of sleep. I've been watching him 24/7 until we find him a bed in an adolescent psych unit. Sounds fairly easy, but it is not. It is a complicated ballet of talking and forms and waiting and hoping.
On the site Believer in Balance, the author had a lot to tell us about a World of Difference:
I’m proud to be part of the mommy blogger community. It is a community that supports one another, in good times and bad, with humor and compassion. It is a community where I feel a sense of belonging and camaraderie. It is a community of friendship and being a part of it has made A World of Difference to me.
Jenny of Absolutely Bananas expressed her desire to go with this:
I would like to go. I really think I would enjoy going. There are so many cool people who are going. Plus there's the getting away for a weekend of chica-time sans family that is rather appealing.
Jeana of Days to Come had a great take on a World of Difference conjuring up images we hadn't thought of:
The first thing I thought of was my feed reader. If you were to look at the list of blogs I read regularly, you would find fundamental Christians, emergent believers and atheists. You would see some blogs from the USA and some from countries I had to look up on the map. You would see mothers of eight or more and women with no children. People who homeschool, private school and public school; people who bottle feed, breast feed or just graze at will. What they do all have in common (with the exception of one, out of sixty) is that they are all women. But from one woman to the next there is...well, a world of difference.
Lisse of @ Home in the World shared with us this bit of difference:
All my travel these days is virtual. I read travel books and I vist with moms and others through their blogs. Like travel, being a mother changes how I see the world and colors my writing. Blogging started as a way to force myself to write every day, but became a way to gain insights into others who dare to share their stories. It has shown me that regardless of the differences in our parenting styles or our politics, we all want the same basic things out of life. It has shown me a group of women who can support each other despite the differences in lifestyle and geography.
Lani of The Wooden Porch had this to say about a World of Difference:
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The conference is titled "A World of Difference" and I think it sounds like a wonderful theme. One of the biggest eye openers I have experienced since I began blogging is the diversity of women out there. This really should be a no brainer, but you have to remember I come from a rural area where everyone is pretty much just like the next guy down the road. I hole up in my home for six days where I spend my time picking tomato worms off the plants, painting my toes, making up my own dances moves to county music, and eating granola bars on the front porch while actually trying to see what's going on at the neighbor's. I just can't believe that other people don't do the same thing all day long too
Melissa, author of Mejojac's Memo's really wants to go and learn. She wrote that:
There is a conference this summer in Chicago and I want to go! :) It would be so fun to meet other bloggers and heaven knows I have TONS to learn still.
Jessica of Kerflop entered, but then told us to pull her out of the running because she found another means to get to BlogHer. However, since she so kindly shared with us her thoughts, we wanted to share them with you. She says:
I admire so many of you out there. Those of you who have the courage and strength to be honest about who you really are, what you really want. You dare to say, “This is me. No holds barred.” You make an effort that has and should be awarded with all the dorky badges you can fit in your side columns. I only dare to half hope. To prepare for the worst, to protect myself, and sit, guarded, back here in the corner. Watching the rest of you do the hokey pokey. You look beautiful.
Such great entries! We're thrilled that so many of you want to attend BlogHer this year! We're asking last year's winner, Daring Young Mom's Kathryn to randomly pick a winner...we'll update this entry with a winner as soon as we have her pick!
***Updated below - we have a winner!***
Hi there contest entrants! We want to let you know that if we got or found your entry for the Send A Blogger to BlogHer '07 entry, you should have either received a comment on it or an email. IF you have NOT, please email us at mommybloggers@gmail.com or comment here so we know that we missed yours! We want to make sure that we saw everyone's entry. With two of us working to find them and neither at full speed ahead at the moment (KIDS!), we may have overlooked one or two.
As many of you know the three of us-- Jenn, Jenny and Meghan-- met up at BlogHer '05. The entire conference meant so much to each one of us. After talking about it, we decided we wanted to send a blogger to BlogHer '06 who otherwise might not be able to attend. Now is the time to let us know if you are interested in giving it a shot.