Powerful Posting (or not...)

How do you start the first sentence of the first paragraph of the first blog entry on your first blog?

As a language arts teacher, I teach my students about the power of that first sentence. Your first chance to hook your reader. Yet, here I sit staring at a blank screen searching the back of my mind for that perfect hook. Clearly, I’m failing so let’s just jump in…  

I’ve thought about having a blog for a while now. After all, I’ve been avid blog reader for quite some time. I check in daily with family fun blogs, entertaining blogs like Skinny Meg, connected educator blogs like Technically yours, Teamann, and my favorite guilty pleasure, Mama Laughlin. So while reading and browsing others, I’ve had the thought of “Hey, maybe I should do that!” cross my mind. But then doubt creeps in and I think that no one except my own parents will probably want to read my blog (Hi Mom & Dad!). And I’m also reminded of my strong dislike for writing. Short story…

You see, I majored in History at Texas A&M University. The last semester of my final year I was required to take a senior seminar covering military history. The entire semester was spent writing and preparing a research presentation. The topic I chose was about the history of the media during times of war. I spent five long months preparing an 83 page research paper to present to the class. {Well, maybe in reality it was only a 25 page research paper, but when you’re 22 and the only thing standing between you and graduation is that one dreaded paper, it feels like 83 pages.} After that class, I avoided writing like the plague. Sure, I would write small 100 word essays with my fifth grade class, but other than that you wouldn’t find me jumping in any further than that.  

Now that’s it’s been almost 6 (SIX?!) years since that tedious research paper, I think I’m finally able to move on and find a love of writing.

Enter: The McGregor Method

Like I said, I’ve been reading blogs for over a year and one of the other hesitations I’ve had with starting my own is that I wasn’t sure where I would fit in to this blogging world. Am I lifestyle blogger? An educational blogger? A mommy blogger? A healthy living blogger? Then one day, I realized it didn’t matter. I could be all of those things because I AM all of those things!

I like do crazy things like meal prep once a week, color coordinate my closet, complete lesson plans up to 9 weeks in advance and all kinds of other fun things {insert eye rolling here}. My husband and daughter are no different, we all have our own methods.  I often get asked how we do it all, so I’ll be sharing The McGregor Method with you in all sorts of ways.  Join me for:

Meal Makin’ Mondays
Teachin’ Tuesdays
Wordless Wednesdays
Tiny Tot Thursdays
Freestyle Fridays

{Can you tell I like alliteration?}

Some of our methods are practical, some of our methods are hilarious, and some border on obsessive-compulsive. But they’re our methods and they make our life better and maybe they’ll make your life easier too. Read ‘em! And if you love ‘em, pin ‘em and share ‘em!