What can you expect from IABYA?

I suppose the majority of my CMM readers have always been those close to my journey TTC, personally or following a similar path, but my goal with IABYA is to be a bit more broad in scope and reach a larger audience. I am not looking to take over the world wide web and become an empire, just a little slice!

I will continue to keep this as a personal journal of sorts, but I also hope to share guest posts and curated content as well (in other words - if you have something to say... please message me, I want to hear from you). There is so much information out there regarding our health, parenting, relationships and anything else you can think of, but sometimes a story jumps out at me and I just feel like it is something I need to share! So, I will try and post a list of interesting reads from time to time alongside my own story. Some may be correlated or intertwined, others may just be an interesting read. I may even dig something up from my old blog!

Being a new mom as well as a frequently work-widowed, part-time "single mother" (in quotes as I know this term offends some people) has certainly been a huge learning experience! So, I also plan to share what I have learned in my short time as a mom, and I also hope to continue learning from my friends and followers as well. I have some amazing, A-M-A-Z-I-N-G, people in my mom-tribe and I wish to honor them and their wealth of knowledge as they all mean the world to me. I have always said that while it takes a village to raise a child, it also takes one to support, teach and nurture a mother too! Tips, tricks, a shoulder to cry on or a funny story? I will share everything that I can!

Also, I have finally gotten back into reading thanks to my "book-club-of-two" and found some time to binge on Netflix and go to the movies once in a while. If I see or read anything fantastic I will definitely share my thoughts with all of you. So far so good, except for the last read... it was so.freaking.slow!

I hope to include both memories and milestones here too; for my daughter and for myself, either in writing or with photos. I am at odds with myself about oversharing my child's photos on the internet but I will think of something creative to solve the problem. Her privacy is the most important thing to me. But we enjoy traveling, playing tourist within our own city, going away for a weekend and so much more and I want to share these experiences.

I won't necessarily be posting on a specific schedule just yet, because I tried to come up with one and got overwhelmed, but I do plan to be more consistent with this new space. This is why I needed a break; time to sort some things out in life and find my focus again. Just a reminder, for those who may have forgotten, that while you are subscribed to my written content there is always more on the blog itself. I have even set up a separate Instagram account to accompany this project and I have featured a number of other blogs I frequent that you may be interested in too. I will feature these bloggers from time to time, but for now they are yours to discover!

And last but not least... I am working on getting some giveaways together, yay! I have been involved with a number of product testing opportunities during the summer and I really enjoyed the experience (despite some leaky diapers - meh). I am working out the details and waiting to hear back from a couple of places but I don't expect to have anything too soon so please stay tuned!

That's it for now! Have a great weekend everyone!