There are lots of mommy blogs out there. (That’s mommy, not mummy, since the vast majority are American.) Some are well written, others are self-centred rants, but most of them are really very similar to each other and try to convince the readers that this baby is the wackiest one out there. I haven’t found any that make for interesting long-term reading, unless the reader knows the mommy or the baby.
One thing almost all of them have in common is that they post regular letters to the baby. I too have my monthly updates, but they are for myself in the future, and for my friends and family: this is what is Ingrid is up to right now. I do not pretend that I am talking to her.
If the post is not a letter to the baby, why pretend it is? And if it is, why post it publicly?
I used to read dooce but then the quality went downhill. She had a long period when she posted nothing but pictures of her dog and that got old fast. I went back for another look recently but the posts I saw were not as interesting as the old ones.
I tried this ‘dear Oskar’ thing once and it didn’t feel right. He doesn’t give a toss whether I blog or not and being a boy will probably be embarrassed one day that I do…
On mommybloggers, I really like dooce and girlsgonechild. Probably in the other order actually.