Blog vs. Baby

Well, today is August 4th.  My due date is September 4th.  That’s only ONE month away.  I didn’t realize how little time is left until this morning, when Christopher and I had a mini-freakout about it.  When we were preparing for Sarah’s birthday party, I kept saying, “Once this party is over, I’m going to start getting everything set up for the baby to arrive.”  Since then, I’ve bought a diaper pail, and that wasn’t even planned.  I just happened to be passing a Toys ‘R Us that was closing, so they had people holding signs outside advertising “40%-60% off EVERYTHING.”  Well, being the bargain hunter I am, I had to go see what deals I might be missing out on.  So, I got a diaper pail for $9. 

So, why haven’t I been doing my “nesting.”  Honestly, it’s because I’ve been trying to figure out this whole social media marketing thing: how to blog, how to Tweet, how to Facebook, and I haven’t even touched YouTube, yet!  When I told Christopher that my time has been spent on the computer and research instead of preparing for Baby Pucci’s arrival, he told me that as much as he loves business, the baby’s a little more important right now, or as we economists like to say, “on the margin.” He is right.  (By the way, Pucci is in no way related to the baby’s actual name.  It is simply a nickname for “Poochie-Mama”–which is what Christopher named my belly when it got large enough to be it’s own entity.)  As I’ve thought about this today, though, I realized that a blog is sort of like a baby.  Many business owners equate their businesses to their babies, and a blog can be the same way.  Let’s explore the similarities between blogs and babies:

• Both can keep you up late at night
• It’s exciting to see both develop and mature
• Both require attention and nurturing
• You have a hand in creating both
• Friends, family, and colleagues enjoy keeping up with, and commenting on, both
• Neither will ever be completely independent of you
• Although there are several articles and books instructing you how to properly shape both babies and blogs, each baby and blog is unique and you ultimately have to use your own judgment to make the best decisions on how to proceed

Of course, the differences are very obvious, but I shall go ahead and name a few for you:

• Blogs do not require diaper changes!  Though I suppose you may have to clean up some of the comments every once in a while.
• Blogs don’t cry (but you might when you realize that no one is actually reading your posts)
• Blogs can’t snuggle or smile
• Blogs won’t beg to share your ice cream cones
• Blogs will never say anything that you don’t type for them–no impromptu “secrets”, “jokes”, or “I love you”s.

With that being written, I should really head to bed.  I’ve got a long day of “nesting” ahead of me tomorrow.  Of course, before I can nest, I have to “hunt” — hunt for my handy dandy ziploc bag of manuals for all our baby gear.  Some of that stuff is pretty complicated to put together!