The challenge is complete – Mummascribbles

I’ve done it.

With this post, I have completed the January 31 day blog challenge. I have managed to write a post every day for the last month. I am so impressed with myself.

It hasn’t been easy. Trying to get round to writing a blog post while working full time and being a mummy is incredibly difficult. There were times when I literally had nothing to write about. The day would be disappearing and I had no content. Then suddenly out of nowhere, something would happen that would give me a subject for a post and I’d quickly grab my phone out and type away while the thought was in my mind.

I did lots of blogging on the train. Lots of blogging from the sofa. Anywhere I could do it, I blogged.

I connected those blogs to linky’s. I Tweeted them. I Face-booked them. I got them out there into the big wide world.

People read them. People clicked the like button. People commented on them. People shared them with their own followers.

There are people that do this for a living. Successful blogs require time and effort. The lovely Aby at You Baby Me Mummy wrote a wonderful post on blogging being a full time job here and I can completely see how this can be the case, even when it’s not supposed to be. Having a successful blog is all about publicising yourself over and over again. Having spent the past 31 days writing, I’ve had to do a lot of publicising. But through this I have met some very lovely people, discovered some rather fabulous blogs and have loved every minute of it.

There have certainly been some posts I have written that have been less good than others. There have been some that I have been incredibly proud of. Ones that not only have I loved writing but that I look back, read and think, I did a pretty good job there. I’m not a professional writer. I love to write but it’s not something I have done on a regular basis since I was a student. Doing this over the last 31 days has really increased my level of writing and it’s really helped me point my blog in the direction that I wanted it to go in. And so, I look back, and share a few of my favourite posts from the last month with you.

I’d like to say that I will continue writing every day but the likelihood of that happening is slim. It’s been quite stressful knowing that I really want to complete this challenge and therefore have been trying to fit posts in when sometimes I really don’t have the time. That said, in my head, I am going to try at least every other day. As long as I have something to write about, I will keep on writing regularly and you never know, it just might be more often than planned!

For now though, I end my challenge with a thank you. To all of those who have read the posts I’ve written over the last 31 days (and before). To all the people who have commented on my posts, who have shared and liked, and to all my new followers wherever you are following me, whether it be on here, Bloglovin, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and Google +.

Thank you all.