Things I Can't Say

Tips and Tales from an Introverted Mom

You Know You Have Blogger Kids When…

It’s true that you can tell a child has a blogger for a mom when their lives are typed out in (sometimes embarrassing) detail. But there are other tell-tale signs that you can pick up, even if you don’t actually know that mom has a blog.

Like when the kids do not understand why both FedEx and UPS drove past the house without stopping(which could also be a sign of a child of a shopaholic, but it’s a blogging thing, too!).

Or when they make mess and mom has to take a pic before cleaning it up because it will make a great blog post.

Or maybe you have a conversation like this:

Hubs(on the the drive home from picking me up at the airport after a blogging conference): Your hair looks really wavy. (his way of saying “Did you do something permanently weird to your hair, because I really don’t like it, but it’s different enough that you’ll probably get cranky if I don’t say something about it.)
Me: I had it curled by V05 yesterday. They were doing hair in one of the suites.
8 year old: Does that mean you have to write about your hair now?

Um, no.

Except that I just did. But not because I felt I had to. But thinking that way is a sign of being a child of a blogger!

wavy hair

What I look like with wavy hair. Which I would do more often… if I always had someone else to do it! Instead, I’ll stick with a messy bun.

How else can you tell that someone is a blogger’s kid?

Comments

  4. That’s awesome! Your hair does look great! 
    My kids haven’t started asking me if I’m gonna blog about something, yet. I’m still new to the blogging game. 

  5. I love the wavy hair. My son always asks me to “take my picture” which i think is a sign of a blogger mom cause I”m always photographing everything.

  7. My kids know I am up to blogging because I take photos everywhere.  Then they go, “Are you going to blog about this?” 
    You’re hair looks AWESOME. 

    • Thank you! I needed to take those V05 girls home in my suitcase so I could have nice hair. LOL

  10. Every time we go somewhere to do something fun my daughter asks, “is this a blog thing?” No sweetie, sometimes momma actually has to PAY for you to go to the movies. Most times actually.

    • Unfortunately, yes, most times we’re paying! 

      I think I started it with my kids by explaining different things we’ve been able to do or get are b/c of blogging- to try to get them to understand part of why I’m on the computer!

  12. My kids always try and think of things to do so that I can “Put it on my website!”

    They like being the stars of my little internet show. 🙂

  14. Lol!  That is so so true!  My kids will even sometimes ask for me to take funny videos of them and ask if I am going to put them on the blog, so yea they totally know. 

      • Oh yes – Instagram too! Although now the girls are teens and they and their friends are on Instagram, Pinterest etc they find it embarrassing having a mum who blogs, instragrams, pins etc!

  16. LMBO yeah so true. My boys are always MOM you are not putting this on the blog are you??? BWhahahaha.. I love your hair like that. I wish mine would do that but nooooo I get the unruly white girl with a fro curls all the time..

  17. Always having the cellphone camera ready to catch a blog worthy moment or a blog-spiration (this is extra true if that mom blogger doubles as a /diy blogger).

  20. Your hair looks gorgeous. (And P.S. I totally would’ve driven out to see you at Blissdom but I know you all had such a hectic schedule.)

    You know I’m blogger b/c when I talk about my friends, they all have online names, usually their blog names. I must sound crazy to people outside the blog world!

    • I wish you could have! It was crazy busy, but I would have loved to get to meet you! 

  21. With my kids it’s not so much the blog part of it…but every time I take a picture, my youngest is always saying, “Are you putting this on Facebook?? I don’t want to be on Facebook!”

    Your hair looks great, by the way 🙂

    • I imagine my kids saying that to me as they get older- and telling me not to tag them! 

  23. ROFL! One of my twins just asked me why the brown truck didn’t bring me a package when it drove by earlier today!

  24. Yes! The UPS/FedEx thing is a big deal here. The other day we got a box of cereal via FedEx. Oh the excitement. LOL My youngest has no been dodging the cameras, and begging me NOT to write about little happening in his life. “Mom, You cannot blog about this!”

  26. I love that your son asked if you have to write about your hair now. My son isn’t yet old enough to understand the whole blogging thing, but you’ve given me something new to look forward to. P.S. I think your hair looks great with waves!