Welcome to another interview! This is one of my favorite parts of the week, I just LOVE hearing from each of you, and hearing about your blogs!!! Today we’re introducing Jenny!!!
Hi, I’m Jenny. Even though I may not be shyly waving from the corner, I am an introvert at heart. I have been married to Chris for 21 years and we are raising 7 precious gifts on 365 acres. I have been blogging for about 6 years. I closed my original blog, A Minute Captured in 2012. It had run its course. That same year, I felt the Lord urging me to create a new blog, a place on the web to raise up, support, maintain and accept the Catholic woman. He placed in my heart the word “Suscipio” which means exactly that. I also casually blog at Big Family Small Farm which is supposed to be our family blog. And The Littlest Way, which is supposed to be my personal blog. They both suffer from occasional bouts of neglect.
- How do you balance blogging time & Family Time?
This is a tough one. That’s why I am so happy to see a website like Blogging on the Side which encourages women by focusing on “…keeping your faith and family in balance with your blogging work.” I recently moved my desk top computer into our office area to help me in this. Before, it was in the main part of the house, the dining room. Although great for computer safety for our children, it was way too easy for me to sit down and check “just one thing” while they ate breakfast or popped into my email during lunch or wandered around the web while the baby nursed. This was a scattered approach to my blog business and a disservice to my children’s time. Since moving the computer, my time is more focused and more productive whether I’m with my children or working on my business.
- Do you have a blogging schedule? or just write as you feel inspired? Share what works for you and why!
I am so much more productive and relaxed when I use an editorial calendar. I don’t necessarily plan out posts, but I plug in posts. If I want to discuss a book, I’ll write up a post and plug it into the calendar. If I want to write a “Letter of Encouragement” I plug that into the calendar as well. It keeps a consistency to my blog. Suscipio also posts guest posts regularly. Again, using the editorial calendar to fill the calendar is very efficient. When I put this in practice, it saves me from sitting in front of the computer trying to think of something to write while my children need breakfast.
- Do you have any pieces of advice for other bloggers?
Remember what serves who. Your blog is meant to serve you. You were not meant to serve your blog. If your blog begins to interfere with your life and drain you, it’s time to step back and re-evaluate. Let your readers know the balance you are trying to maintain and they will respect you and your work. If you need a season of posting only once or twice a week, explain that time and then enjoy that time. You’ll come back to your blog and your readers will still be there. If you start throwing junk up just to get a daily post, or if you disappear, you will lose readers. This may seem like a slow way to grow, but blogging, like most good things in life, is a marathon, not a sprint.
Great advice from Jenny at Suscipio blog! I hope you hop on over and visit her blog! Be sure to let her know that you are visiting from BOTS!
A pleasure to make your acquaintance, Jenny! =D I love your advice about remembering that blogging is meant to serve us, and not the other way around! I find myself apologizing far too often for not meeting my own deadlines, but I’m learning that I set those expectations in the first place! =D
Just saw this Yvonne. I’ve already visited with you at your place and Suscipio though. It’s so nice to meet up once more on the comments here.
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