I made it.

So, what was with all this blogging in November?

November is, in fact, National Blog Posting Month, a.k.a. NaBloPoMo. Last year my sister successfully participated in National Novel Writing Month, a.k.a. NaNoWriMo. While the thought of writing a 50,000-word novel in a month sounds exhilarating to me, let's face it. It's a little ambitious for me at this point. (And when she first told me, I thought it had something to do with rhymes and science -- nanos and rhyme-ohs -- and I was seriously confused.)

Yes, my dear sister, blogging has definitely grown on me since I started out in secret less than two years ago. This is the first month I have posted every day. And, by the way, all of these stories are true. I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried.

So, since I'm insecure like that and only want to do things I know I can actually succeed at, (please don't psycho-analyze me. I've got Dr. Laura for that.) I've been participating in NaBloPoMo unofficially. Of course, now that I actually look at their website to get the link for this post and see that there are prizes, I'm kicking myself for not signing up and doing it officially.

But I do have one confession to make. I schedule my posts. Is that cheating? Instead of actually sitting down and writing every day, I sit down and write several posts and schedule them to appear at future dates and times. Thank you, blogger. I actually LOVE this feature. But. . . do I have to make time to write and post every single day for it to actually count? Because I'm a mom of three small children, and I have not yet achieved any sense of structure in my life, at least on a daily basis. That's such a short period of time in my life.

So, since I'm not going to win a prize, and that's no fun, how about if you win a prize? Leave a comment, and I will randomly pick someone to win a random prize. How's that for fun?