What Inspires Me to Blog

This is The Binondo Mommy's official entry to Moomy Musings "What Inspires You?" Blog Inc. Book Giveaway Contest.

The Binondo Mommy is a fairly new blog that started only last June 8, 2013, almost four months running in the blogging world. It was born to serve as a medium to document my life as a mom, to record the happiness of having a baby, to improve on my skills, to open new opportunities, and to meet new friends along the way.

I got inspired from those mommy bloggers who constantly share their personal stories, learnings and mishaps to help fellow moms avoid falling into the same problem or to hear out another mom's point of view. Reading blogs is fun because you can easily get a glimpse of somebody else's life and get to learn many new things. To my supportive friends and readers who took time to read my blog posts and left comments, they are the ones that kept me inspired to blog more.

I can better express myself through writing than talking face to face that's why I think blogging is for me. I love to document things especially through photographs and videos and all those memorabilia that I would come across with. As of now, I don't have any field of expertise or specialty that I can mention yet because I am still finding my life's purpose. And because of that, the topics that I blog still varies. I have a dream to travel around the world, to dine in different restaurants, to start my own business, to be financially stable, to be able to help and give back to society. And I am very hopeful that blogging could, one way or another, take me to achieve my dreams in life. I learned from a seminar that the more you declare your dreams to the universe, the faster they will come to you. I know it would take time to create a successful blog but I am willing to take the small steps. I strongly believe that knowledge and power is achieved through time.

Got this image from: http://www.beckybedbug.com/2013/06/book-review-blog-inc.html

After reading the review by Moomy Musings on the book entitled Blog Inc. by Joy Cho, the whole book's content got my interest. I'm interested to read Chapter 1: Introduction to Blogging since it best fits my current status in this blogosphere. I want to better understand the blogging terms, blogging purposes and different types of blogs. The second interesting chapter for me is Chapter 4: Blogging Community Etiquette.

I hope to get a copy of this Blog Inc. book by Joy Cho as I really want to see how far my blog would go. If you are interested to create your own blog, you might want to check Moomy Musings' blog for inspiration: http://www.moomymusings.com/2013/09/blog-inc-book-review.html

Special thanks to Moomy Musings for helping me put up my blog and serving as my inspiration. May you inspire many more people to blog with purpose.

Mommy Sally

Blogging Time is Me Time

This is an official entry to Dainty Mom's guest post challenge on "How to Find the Time to Write or Blog."

Even if I am at home most of the time, I find it hard to have a "me" time especially that I am exclusively breastfeeding my baby. As we all know it, taking on a mommy job requires so much responsibility and time. You won't be able to master the drift in one sitting or mere researching. We eventually get used to it as we go along with our daily routines, getting in tune with the various situations, and learning from our hits and misses. We gain credibility from our own personal experience.

I am a hands-on mom to my seven months old baby and I'm loving it. Although it's quite exhaustive at times but once I see my child hitting her milestones, all my efforts and sleepless nights are paid off. My love for Baby A grows deeper each day especially now that she is learning to respond by babbling and smiling back to us. One time, both me and the yaya tried to extend our arms to baby to see whom she would follow. And to my surprise, she chose me to carry her! That moment made my heart jumped out with joy. She can already recognize people.

This little baby wants to blog too!

Entering into this Motherhood phase brings about so much emotions and drama to our life. Aside from the photos and videos I have been taking day by day, another way to better document this wonderful memories is through blogging. However, blogging needs a certain amount of time, a "me" time, to be able to compose a cohesive blog post. I am a newbie mom blogger and here is how I find time to write for my blog.

 
1. Work within a Schedule
It has been a month since I started working at home. Having this set up allows me to carefully look into the daily routine of my baby such as her waking/sleeping time, bath time, meal time, play/reading time, nappy change and other baby caring roles. My usual day-to-day routine would go like this:
      7:00-9:00am    - breakfast, pump, supervise baby bath
      10:00-12:00nn - do some household errands or "me" time, lunch, supervise baby eat via baby led weaning
      1:00-5:30pm    - do my work-at-home job, pump, check out baby when yaya has merienda
 or takes a bath, have my snacks
      5:30-7:00pm    - take a bath, exercise, rest, play with baby, "me" time
      7:00-9:00pm    - dinner, supervise baby eat, pump
      9:00-10:30pm  - reading time with baby, put baby to sleep via direct feeding until the next morning
      10:30pm onwards - "me" time or blogging time
Getting familiarize with my mommy routines enabled me to identify when I could set a time for blogging and other online activities. The key here is to stick to a certain schedule.

2. Make Good Use of Waiting Time
Even if it's not yet my "me" time, I have started to mull over the topics and stories that I wanted to write about. Waiting time or idle time for me is when riding an LRT, on a jeepney, inside the car, taking a bath, while eating, while pumping, while direct feeding or just before I fall asleep. I jot down keywords into a piece of paper, notebook or type them on my cellphone for me to look back during my "me" time. I just keep my thoughts and ideas flowing at any time of the day. Moms are good at multi-tasking.

3. Challenge a Goal
Despite my busy schedule as a work-at-home mom (WAHM), I challenge myself to compose at least one blog post a week or four posts a month for now. It made me feel good and proud every time I am able to publish a blog post because I know I used up my precious time in doing it. This way, I will be sure that I find time to write even if it means being grounded at home.

4. Start it Now
Nothing will happen if I don't start it now. I would start composing even if I just have a little extra time left vacant. I don't expect to finish it in one sitting. I would continue it for days until before the week ends. I abide by this secret formula which I have learned in a leadership seminar:

Intention + Action = Results

I just started blogging last month the moment I became a WAHM. And following these four easy steps allowed me to find my passion. Blogging time is now my "me" time. If you are really passionate with blogging, you will surely make time for it. Try blogging too! It's liberating! See you! :)

Mommy Sally