Why I Started My Blog

Recently I've been getting asked why I started up this blog, why now, and how has it been going. My answer, in typical blogger fashion, is long but it was ya'll that asked so let's take it from the top!

So, as for why I started my blog up now. My first response is, WHY NOT now! My second, more kind and more adult response is that I've wanted to blog and eventually create vlogs and videos for years! I've had friends and even my sister tell me I need to start an Instagram or a Youtube or something. Then about two years ago I even created an account on I believe Weebly and I was in the process of creating a domain name but I just didn't feel confident in myself and just like most unattended dreams, it faded into the background. This past winter I fell back into love with blogging. I started following more bloggers, and not just their instagrams but their actual sites. I caught the blogging bug and before I lost my nerve, I made it a reality and not just another thing I put off because I feel inadequate or under prepared. I needed to start somewhere and that place is here and now. It's never too late to try something new or invest in yourself.

Now into why I started this blog. I'm the type of person that has a variety of small passions and blogging opens an avenue for me to explore all of them. My blog is an extension of me, it has a little bit of everything I love. Once I knew my areas of focus and what I knew I actually would have fun talking about, I literally researched sites and came across Wix, I spent a whole day creating my domain name and bought it that day and became determined to try this for a year. To dedicate some of my time to fulfilling my creative need inside of me. I sold my older Canon camera to put down money for my new Canon and Marc, my adorable husband, bought me my first iPhone ( I was an Android girl for life until I got an iPhone and now I'm like new phone who dis). I invested in presets and bought a refurbished MacBook and your girl got to work!

In all honesty this has been the most trying and frustrating experience but also rewarding and therapeutic and fun. Getting to race around Atlanta with my husband and eat and explore different places, having endless coffee dates and highly anticipated Sunday dinners has been so fun! On the other hand, researching how to shoot with both my camera and my iPhone and then teaching Marc has been frustrating, sometimes I get all mad at my camera but it's not the camera it's me and my limited knowledge trying to explain to my husband and getting mad because I'm not a professional and still learning myself. That part is not so fun. Some days we get it right and other days we struggle with content, because if I don't like the content, I won't post it. I hate to miss a day but I can't just throw anything up on Instagram. I want consistency but quality too.

Then there's the days we get it right and it feels so good! When I figure out a setting or Marc takes a bomb image that I know will be easy to edit! I could scream with happiness! As a couple we feel proud. I'm probably going to have to eventually take a real class not just Youtube lessons but for now baby steps! I'll make it to video and audio and all that jazz but it's not going to be soon and I'm oddly okay with that. I'm learning and loving it.

Then when it comes to cooking. I'm blogging my recipes because it's fun. I didn't start measuring until a few months ago, I eyeball and estimate everything when it comes to cooking. I taste as I go and I rely heavily on my strong sense of smell. It actually takes me longer to write recipes than any other post because I have to keep making sure I'm giving accurate measurements and that I'm recording literally everything I am doing. Sometimes I think I'm doing something small or insignificant but it plays a big role in the meal I am making! When I'm in the kitchen, I own it like no one's business but now I can pretend I'm Julia Childs, Rachel Ray, and Bobby Flay and when I'm particularly sassy Gordon Ramsay and I play music and I write as I go. I'm a different person in the kitchen and I love how I feel when I cook and bake.

Blogging is a multiple areas of challenges and degrees of comfort and discomfort. Writing or typing, I should say is the one of those in betweens. I will never be that philosophical thought provoking blogger. I also am not horrible. I type how I talk and I like that, it works for me! I do at times feel like I sound too young but I AM young. I'm young and in love and I've been thru some real tough stuff and I am a whole person trying to fit her self into a few paragraphs. With typing I find better ways to word things, better words, and better way to express my voice in the most honest and true way. My heart is out there on the internet, my voice, my words, my life and it can be overwhelming if you think too much about it. I watched this Ted Talk back in my college English class about vulnerability one time and the way the lady explained it, made me feel vulnerability is a strength. When I blog I feel strong but some parts of vulnerability leave you feeling some kind of way.

For example,I have to force myself not to look at is my follower count. My follower count does not define me as a person. It does however uproot my confidence in the quality of my content. I'm working on making my feed more aesthetically pleasing but I bounce around creatively because I'm still trying to find my niche and see how I want my feed to look. My follower count despite being low, hasn't stopped me from engaging with people. People follow my stories and send me DMs, and read my blog and we talk honestly! I love that. I love engaging with people and I love that my voice matters and that something I say could shape someones perspective and open it wide! I love that I can share parts of my life and what I've learned. When I look back on this blog in a year, I want to see how far I've come. This blog is a small scrapbook of my life and I love recording all I've done in the life I share with my amazing husband. The precious moments I've had in the short time I've had since I started this are substantial.

Lastly, my blog is giving me confidence. The confidence to pose for a pic in public and make a fool of myself to create the movement I want. It's giving me more confidence to speak up. No, I won't let people steal my ideas and no, I won't let Random Regina (not a real person) staring stop me from getting that picture or having that experience ( still working on this because sometimes Regina is staring hard and isn't blinking and is whispering and I punk out but sometimes I stare back and say, forget you Regina, you ain't nobody!). I have the confidence to take as many pictures as I need. I have the confidence to try a new style of editing or posts because I want to see people's response and see where my audience is. I have confidence and it's growing each day.

Bottom line: I blog because it's fun. I blog to challenge myself. I blog to express my feelings. I blog to make memories. I blog because it makes me happy and if a few hours of my week are set aside for something ultimately benefiting me and helping me learn skills and increase my confidence why wouldn't I?

Anyways, thats all folks, I hope you enjoyed. If you need me, you know where to find me. Instagram because I live on there now.

Do what makes you happy, Morgs.