I am a firm believer of what comes around goes around and have to say that I am exceptionally thankful for the opportunities this blog has brought me over the years.  I started writing way back when my boys were two and three after a double mastectomy.  I wanted to have a record of the things we did together as a family, in case anything happened to me.  Back then I didn’t know of the community of parent blogs in the UK and had no idea about sites such as the Tots100.
As time went on I started to comment on UK blogs that I came across and people started to comment on my blog.  I joined the Tots100 and then after a year I was asked to review my first product and invited to my first event.  Over the following years I have been to numerous blogging conferences and made some firm friends through blogging.  I discovered that Cass from Frugal Family lived down the road from me and our children were similar ages.  I would have scoffed at the thought you could make such close friends through such things as blogging.  Now I know different!
Me and Cass at an event together
I still enjoy blogging, maybe even more than I did then and I love the interaction and opportunities it brings me.  I love reviewing products and I love sharing that love too.  Recently I was asked to review a steam mop and for all sorts of reasons I ended up with more than one and the company said I could keep them as it was their error, so when I read that Vicki had slipped with babe in arms on a just mopped floor I knew exactly what I needed to do.  So I arranged for Parcelforce to deliver the spare mop.
Even writing this post has made me smile so much. Â Just looking back at my achieves for that first post and the picture of me and Cass. Â It has made me realised that I am doing what I set out to do. Â I am creating an online diary of life in The Mad House. Â The good, the bad and the ugly and this makes me very happy indeed.
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