For most of the world who do not know what this adorable abbreviation means, NaBloPoMo is short for National Blog Posting Month and was inspired by NaNoWriteMo, or National Novel Writing Month, and what THAT means is that every day in November you are challenged to put up a blog post every day.  It’s supposed to make you a better writer, motivate you, and test the limits of your creativity, and maybe even your patience.

This year BlogHer, the largest association for women bloggers, has decided to become the sponsor of NaBloPoMo.  While I adore this organization and have just become a member of the BlogHer Ads Publishing Network, I just have one question for them and one statement.

Why, BlogHer, why would you put yet another task onto the already broken backs of the woman blogger?  

I did not succumb to NaBloPoMo and I am proud of it!

Aren’t we women bloggers already busy enough trying to fit just blogging into our lives? Whether we are working in the home or outside of the home, aren’t we finding balancing our lives almost impossible?

There goes the quality time with our children that we try to fit in, in the hopes of not driving our kids into therapy. “My mom…just wasn’t…THERE for me.  Whenever we read or did a project together or went to a place that was supposed to be fun, mommy was always taking pictures of us for her BLOG!  Whenever I said, anything, my mother had to stop everything and write it down so she could BLOG about it later because she thought it was cute! I felt so…used!”

There goes time spent at the gym, skipped as we sit, trying to think up a post every single day. Here comes the weight we will gain while polishing off the remaining Halloween candy as we sit at our computers trying to get some inspiration.

There goes whatever “ME” time we had.

Even more pictures will sit in our smartphones and digital cameras, waiting to be shared with God and Facebook.

There goes any understanding by our husbands of while we feel the need to blog or any respect they may have for us as bloggers as we force them to put the kids to bed every night because we need to stare at our computers.

And why in God’s name would someone think of November as the perfect month to put up a blog post every day? November, the start of the holiday season?  How are we supposed to take advantage of Black Friday AND Black Thursday and Cyber Monday?  Don’t we bloggers have enough contests, pictures to post and Thanksgiving memories to write about this month?

Why not do this in January, in the dead of Winter, when none of us have anything better to do except to hole up in our homes as snowstorm after snowstorm hits us, looking ahead to when Punxsutawny Phil tells us how far off Spring is?

And if you are sitting here thinking that I am one of those jealous bloggers that lack for inspiration, that I am just not doing NaBloPoMo because I have enough trouble thinking up topics, you can just get that thought right out of your head.  I have about over 100 ideas to write about, that I have maniacally put into my smartphone just waiting to be written…except I just don’t have the time.

Oh Eden Kennedy,  who admits that she started NaBloPoMo as a “goof”, what madness hath thou wrought?

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