There are a few universal truths about people, one being our need to relate to one another. We search for commonalities and things about ourselves that we share and thus connect over. Sometimes these are awful things, sometimes they are wonderful things. Becoming a Mother was one that allowed me to strike up a conversation with any woman at the park with spit up on her shoulder and a saggy diapered preschooler climbing up the slide. "Your's won't go in the potty for you either huh?" and just like that we can talk for an hour about our toilet resistant sons and feel like we aren't totally inept at raising human beings. Connection over commonalities is also why I facebook friended everyone with the same name as me, and why they accepted. Obviously we should be friends, right? Obviously.
This fact is also why I love blogs. I can follow others with the same trials, triumphs, thoughts and ideas as me. I can also develop my own thoughts and ideals through their suggestions, ideas and- oh the joy...tutorials! I can get lost in the blogsphere if I start linking to links of links of links. Two hours can go by so quickly when I really just needed a recipe for slow cooker butternut squash soup. How can I help it if the window turned picture frame and cowboy party favors and painted mural playroom wall cropped up in the meantime.
There are a few blogs that I read religiously- you know, if blogging were a religion. Since it isn't, my religion is Latter Day Saint although I would still choose this first even if I could blog my way to heaven...This is a status I share with many other bloggers, quite accidentally, Mormons like to blog it seems. Anyhow Courtney of C Jane Enjoy it blogger fame wrote a guest blog today on another site that made me smile as I read because I could relate so much. I felt like she was writing it about me and that made me smile some more. I thought, "that C jane...she gets me!". Or maybe I get her... either way I enjoyed. Enough to share it some more...because that is really what blogging is about.
