Um, holy crap you guys – this is my 100th post!  That snuck up on me!

As so often with milestones, achieving this blogging benchmark makes me feel pretty reflective.  First, a look back at the most popular posts:

1. “You blogged about what?!”; or, How do you draw the line?
2. A dog’s bucket list; or, dogs shouldn’t die
3. Mother Anger – In the Beginning
4. Let’s be honest: not all parenting choices are “just as good”
5. Sexist Toys: On Becoming a Feminist

Those are some of my favorites as well, so it warms my heart to see that so many other people liked them.  Some of my other favorites:

• Writing: telling the truth in the dark
• The Last Time
• Monday you can fall apart
• Finding Out
• Things my daughter has taught me about human nature
• I may be a mom but that doesn’t mean I have to look like one
• The moment she was born
• Do babies need love or a “Baby Einstein” video? Or both? Or neither?

OK, that was a lot, but it’s my party and I’ll pat myself on the back if I want to!

I started this blog a little over four months ago, and I have to say, it’s been an amazing experience so far!  I might even say: life-changing. I’ve discovered that there’s an entire community of “mom bloggers” out there, and I’ve been lucky enough to find a little corner of that community for myself.  I’ve made friends and become close with women I’ve never met but that I have so much in common with.  I’ve read their blogs and followed their journeys, just as they have done for me.  It makes me feel a little less isolated, and that’s a wonderful thing.

In the last four months I’ve tried to post almost every weekday.  That’s a lot of writing.  It’s been amazing!  This exercise has helped me open myself up to my potential as a writer.  It’s also helped me stop fretting over getting everything perfect.  When you’re publishing that often, you have to just go with it.  Of course, a little editing is always good.  But better to just write and get something down than to constantly second-guess and never end up completing anything at all.  (Which is where I was before I started blogging.)  I feel much freer as a writer, and much more confident.  I want to keep trying, I want to keep writing.

Here’s to 100 more posts. I can’t wait to see where I am when I get there!