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Mabel’s Labels Full Ride BlogHer Scholarship!

The search is on for THE blogger who will serve as the chief BlogHer blogospondent for Mabel’s Labels!

The Chosen One will score an airplane ticket, 2 day conference pass, and a 2 night stay in the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, with Mabel’s Labels footing the bill!

In order to get the details so that you can have a chance to be awarded the Mabel’s Labels BlogHer Scholarship, visit www.blogcontest.mabel.ca to make sure you follow all of the rules.

Blogging started out as a way for me to journal. It is more fun to blog than journal, because with blogging, you actually get some feedback!

I started blogging in 2000 and have kept it up ever since. When I worked in China during 2002-2003 my blog was a wonderful way to keep in touch with friends back home by sharing pictures and stories of my daily adventures.

When my first child was born in 2004, blogging took on a whole new significance for me as I connected deeply with several other moms who had children the same age as Jojo. I still read the blogs of two of these women, Jenn and Megan. (I lost the password to a third, but I know she is out there!). I have literally watched their children grow up and their families expand, without ever having met them in real life!

During this time, I was working as an English teacher, but I never felt like teaching allowed me to use all of my talents, or even pursue the things I loved doing.

Have a degree in Mass Communications. That means I studied journalism, public relations, radio, and TV production at university. I also minored in photography and have a great love of writing.

I thought the only way for me to do the things I loved (like reading and writing) was to return to school. So I got a master’s degree.

Meanwhile, my blog continued to be essentially an online baby book, until one night about a year ago.

Struggling with my usual insomnia, I drifted off one night around 2 am while vacationing at the beach with my family. I was awoken suddenly with some kind of strange, seemingly mundane epiphany.

This sounds totally crazy, but I don’t know how else to explain it; it was as if God was telling me that I should start writing for other moms, to empower them to have the confidence to live their dreams of traveling the world, even as parents.

I worked in China before I had my first child, and I have always known that I want to see as much of the world as possible. There is no place that I wouldn’t be excited to visit.

Well, except maybe those unpopulated parts of Antarctica.

I have traveled with at least one child to parts of the US like LA, California, the panhandle of Florida, and Chattanooga, TN.

As a family, we have explored Malaysia, Beijing, China, Xi’an, China, Singapore, Bangkok, Thailand, Chiang Mai, Thailand, Luang Prabang Laos, and Vientiane, Laos, with more adventures to come!

Many people have said to me, “I wish I could do that. I wish I were that brave.”

I wanted them to know, “YOU CAN!”

I started working hard on my blog, and I have been so blown away by all of the bloggers, PR reps, mompreneurs, social media aficionados, and small business owners who have partnered with me, inspired me, encouraged me, and befriended me as I have traveled THIS road.

I started out wanting to help others by sharing what I have learned about family travel by experience.

In the process, I have made FRIENDS. I have found a sense of PURPOSE and EXCITEMENT as I reach out and collaborate with others professionally and personally.

I can only imagine (and hope) what kind of doors might be opened to me as I continue to blog and the world keeps changing, recognizing the power that blogging gives us “nameless” ones.

We are quietly changing the world, in our pajamas, while the kids are asleep.

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