The Blogging World--Title and Website

We are sisters and we are both external processors. Do you know what that means? Lots of long phone conversations. :)

So last night, we brainstormed in search of a content-appropriate blog title and website domain name.



Since our content will be organized via the ABC's, we thought it would be appropriate to have ABC's or alphabet in the title. But what else? The branch of motherhood that we want to tap into is regarding the kids education and what a parent's role could be with it. So we started looking for ABCseducation, educationabcs, abcsforparents, etc. Nothing available.



Then we had a light bulb moment....what about something with the word "schoolhouse" in it? The word schoolhouse sounds quaint, old-fashioned (which goes w/ our morals), it implies a more intimate setting for school than an institutional setting, positive attitude, and on and on. So when we searched for schoolhouseabcs , sure enough--it was available!! So wahoo-we have a blog title and a website/domain name!

http://www.schoolhouseabcs.com/



Now the real work starts! Content, content, content...

The next job is to nail down the 5 "A" words that we will explore on our first week. So far some of our ideas are, being an ADVOCATE for your child at their school, having a successful year with your AUTISTIC child, school options for ASPERGER'S, and a couple more are still floating around in our heads....

See you tomorrow!

The Blogging World--What's our point of view?

Now we sisters have decided upon what we have in common--motherhood! But what aspect of motherhood should be our point of view? Toddlerhood? Parenting tips? Entertaining children? Meal-making? Coupon saving? Crafting? What?

There seems to be many different sites that cover those aspects very well. One thing we kept going back to was schooling. Our kind of schooling. Even though we are both Christians and raising Christian kids, and have multiple kids each, we are both choosing at this point to send our kids to public school. The trend seems to be to home-school, so there are many sites on that topic. But that's not what we feel led to do with our families (at least not at this point). So since, we are choosing to send our kids to public school, we want to be as prepared as possible, build strong relationships with the staff and faculty at the school and be advocates for our children in any way that they need. We also want to help other parents join us in creating successful school years for their children.

So how will we organize these thoughts?

We are toying with the idea of going through the alphabet--one letter per week and explore words/concepts that begin w/ that letter during the week. But we've got to get busy because school starts...soon!!!



So tonight's homework....brainstorm blog titles and website/domain name ideas! We need to find one that is catchy, content appropriate and most importantly, available!

The Blogging World!

We sisters have been talking for a couple months about what we have to contribute to the world via blogging.
Thankfully, the best thing we have going for us is the fact that we are two very different people with different interests and different strengths/weaknesses.
Margie is very, very tech savvy. She has been designing websites for more than 12 years. She can surf the net faster than anyone, and has a keen eye for efficient and asthetic flow. She is a full time working mom of 3 and lives in the civilian world.
Audrey is not tech savvy. She hasn't even had consistent internet for the last 12 years! But she is a networker, a kitchen savvy mother of 4 who lives in the military world.

Between the two of us, we have a 12 yr, 11 yr, 10 yr, 9 yr, 7 yr, 4 yr and 1 yr olds. Since motherhood is the constant factor, that is what we are going to work on contributing to the blogging world.
But now the search continues....the search for a specific and original point of view, catchy title, available website address, contributors and content (lots and lots of content).

So today's task is to brainstorm on what our point of view is. What part of motherhood do we want to talk about???
Off to go brainstorm!! Let you know tomorrow what we decide on!