Mommy Daddy Blog

I have been very, very unhappy blogging here. I’m not going to lie, this blog has helped our finances tremendously, but I am tired, oh so tired of sticking around just for the opportunities. I’m am very sorry for letting this blog flatline. I have just been very disgusted with this blog. Why?

1. Our blog title is very parenting flavored. When you see the name you know what to expect, right? Parenting related posts written by a mom and dad. Well, most of the time I don’t feel like giving my two cents on parenting. I have lots of opinions, but I am just not ready to turn them into posts. Without that content, all I have are cutesy pictures of Jayden. The guy dubbed Daddy has moved on. I think things were more enjoyable with him around and since he’s lost his mojo, I’ve lost mine too. We have so many ideas for this blog. With this blog, we wanted to share our experiences as parents, young parents, African-American parents. We wanted to set an example. But with life’s bumps, we cannot execute those ideas at this time. We just need some time to focus on US.

2. This blog is tightly niched as a parenting blog and as a personal blogger I don’t want to clash the two. Before joining the online parenting community, I was a personal blogger for 6 years. I loved blogging about my life, as boring as it was at times. Knowing that I still have a personal blog, there’s absolutely no way I can blog personal here. This is a parenting blog. How weird would it be if I started talking about my love for video games, nail polish, plants and gadgets? Some people can do it. I cannot. Some people don’t like their greens to touch their cornbread. I don’t like to let my niches touch.

I invite you all to join me in the next chapter of my blogging career. There, I’ve written about the trouble I’ve had with “mommy blogging” and now I’m committed to keeping it real from now on. There, I will still write about Jayden and life as a mommy, but the blog will be more focused around me, the person I’ve put to the side for far too long. I have a few things to wrap up here. Any remaining reviews will be candidly posted at my new spot. We will not be shutting Mommy Daddy Blog down, but we will no longer be posting here. Maybe in a year, we will be able to make a come back together. We thank our readers and sponsors who have been with us since day one. Remember those days? When we return, that’s how it will be.

By moving on, I am gaining more than what I’m losing. I have established relationships with great people. Traffic can be easily obtained organically at my new spot. I renamed my @mommydaddyblog Twitter handle to @sheenatatum to prepare for our upcoming nuptials. I still have my followers. If you were following me at @mommydaddyblog, you should automatically be following my new handle. I renamed another account of mine to @mommydaddyblog to reserve the handle and direct any new comers to the new handle. I can continue to be reached at any email addresses of mine that you have. If you don’t have my email address, you can fill out my contact form.

I hope that bloggers and pr marketers get the big picture here. It’s not about the stats of the blog, it’s about the blogger behind the blog! If the blogger is not happy or in complete control of their blog, their blog will not shine. I don’t say this to bash pr marketers because bloggers including myself have responsibility over their actions.

I am definitely not saying goodbye, I am saying HELLO. Moving on will help me better reach my goals. You’ll see.

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