Packing Up (for Vacation and) My SVMOMS Blogs
It's the end of an era - I'm packing up for vacation, and at the same time this is my last blog EVER as a contributing writer to the Silicon Valley Moms Blog. It's not my last blog because I'm packing up and leaving the team. Au contraire. It's due to the startling announcement from the SVMOMS executive board that they have decided to "end this journey as a company and as a mom blogging community".
When I received news from co-founder Jill, along with the rest of the writers for this wonderful national blog, I was startled. I've enjoyed blogging for them for the past year and a half. So much of my heart is poured into each entry; my blogs are pieces of my soul captured in writing. Hearing this news is like a death - of everyone's heartfelt, amusing, entertaining, educational and sometimes bitter, but always honest essays about life as a parent. It provides a release to put meaning to our lives in these regular blogs. They are all tid bits about life, observations, memories.
Now, all of our blog posts will be preserved in the blogosphere; packed up like a time capsule, to be read for all Internet eternity. Or when someone pulls the life out of our blog posts, whichever comes first.
I am packing up copies of my posts so I have them preserved for my children. These are my journal entries about my past year and a half as a parent. I've packed them neatly into chronological order, into a nice MS-Word document, and tucked it away into a folder in case SVMOMS ever gets lost in Internet time travel.
And as I do this I also pack my clothes and travel items as we get ready for vacation. I'll be away when Silicon Valley Moms Blog official shuts down. The last post will be uploaded and release on July 1st from someone's laptop onto a server that houses svmoms.com - and then all of our blogs will be tucked away, but hopefully read, by moms from all walks of life. Four years and thousands of blogs ready to set sail.
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