My Weekend.

If someone would have told me four plus years ago when I sat down and typed in my name and email address to create an account on blogger that down the road, four plus years down the road, I would spend five hours in a car to meet twenty eight perfect strangers, I mean, other Midwest Mommy Bloggers, I would have laughed.

I'm still laughing. Because I did. And it was lovely. And inspiring. And really, really neat.

I was so busy last week getting ready and now this week catching up but I went into it a tad bit nervous. How would this go. Who had read my words before. Who had not. Who had I read or heard of and who was new to me.

I fear my words wouldn't do the event justice but I met some very neat women with neat stories that tied us together and made us different at the same time. Some who've blogged forever, others who are newbies.

We ate, we drank, we laughed and talked about every possible thing we could in a beautiful lodge. But we especially talked about motherhood and the important little people in our lives.

We talked about why we blog, our goals, where it started and where we're going. Who we are without our blogs. And it was thought provoking to listen to others and also ask myself within the same questions I don't linger on too often.

And while it was a blogging event, it was something more and something else. Realizing and meeting people as people and not just as some other blogger on the internet.

While I'd love to tell you about each and every woman I encountered and what I thought of them, that might get old quick here. So please, if you're interested and have some more time to add to your blog reading repertoire, click over here and take a wander through some of the other bloggers sites.

And just so you know, I came home to a happy, albeit tired, husband, two bigs who had laundry lists of feedback to give me on the weekend and especially their younger brother. A freshly bathed superhero pajama clad little who asked me never to leave him again and my babe, who waited for me.

Sorry for the low quality picture. It was a quick cell phone shot.

She did not walk without me. But did you really think she would?