Ugh. Not another family blog. I admit that I have one of my own burried on the web, but that doesn’t mean I want to read them. After all, the point of a family blog is to write for your family and close friends, not for the general public. This is like pulling out your wallet and showing your children’s pictures to complete strangers.
Drooling over super stars, complaining about Martha Stewart, daughter goes through puberty, cats, rain, husband, neighbor stories, online quizzes, yadda yadda yadda. Boring. Boring. Boring.
Even after reading through three months of archives, I’ve yet to know anything about the author that doesn’t relate to one of her children, her husband, or some other person in her daily life. Even her About Me section is lacking and doesn’t really give you much depth into the author. There was little more than basic information presented. The blog content reads like the diary of “what I did today…”
Her attempts at humor fail, she never scratches below the surface of any subject, and her entries seem never ending. And I mean NEVER ENDING. Her lack of interesting subject matter is not helped by the general look or design of the site.
The design is a typical Typepad layout, with the three column layout everyone is always complaining about. The main entry information tends to look squashed in between the two side columns, as if that material is nothing but an after-thought. The text is easy to read (dark green on beige) and the header is unique, but that’s it.
The lacking content could be made more readable if the author were to focus inward and share with us who she is behind who she presents to us. She needs to cut more to the point and not drag the reader through endless unimportant information while getting her point across. There is nothing that makes this blog stand out. This is your typical Mom Blog and even I (a mother who blogs) didn’t care for it.
The author is a bit older than the “typical” blog author and I admire that she has undertaken this task. The world needs more experienced bloggers to help us fill the corners of the Internet left vacant by the teen drama blogs that we encounter all too often. However, she needs to work on what she says and how she says it. This is not a site I would be interested in revisiting any time soon.
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