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10 Things I Learned in My First Year of Blogging

1. WordPress.com and WordPress.org are Two Completely Different Things - I started blogging on Blogger and shortly decided to switch to WordPress after reading multiple posts about how WordPress is the place to be.  What I didn't realize is that there is the .com and the .org version.  So, I picked the free version.  I eventually realized the difference and had to transfer everything over again. 2. Branding and Consistency is Important Across All Social Platforms - Your viewers need to be able to recognize your work whether it's on your blog, Facebook, Pinterest, or any other social media outlet.  Making a ...

Summer Breakfast Favs

It's beginning to feel a lot like SUMMER!  I am so excited about summer breakfasts!  Of course, we eat breakfast year round but in the summer it just seems a lot more fun and like there's a lot more energy involved in making breakfast.  Here are four of my favorite breakfasts to make in the summer. Sausage, Egg, and Cheese Muffin This one is great for when you're craving the fast food breakfast but decide against it.  All you do is toast the English muffin, fry up an egg, and microwave some pre-cooked breakfast sausage and throw it all together ...

May 2016 Blog Income Report

This Month’s Top Post: The Ultimate List of Blogging Groups on Facebook – 554 Views – 37 Comments This Month’s Runner Up: Soft Chocolate Cookies – 409 Views – 10 Comments May was a great month for me for growth.  Even with taking a week off from promoting the blog, I still gained over 450 followers between all of my social platforms.  This month I also focused on using Pinterest to gain page views and began to see a decent increase.  I had about 100 views that were referred from Pinterest. I also have an unofficial goal of reaching around 3000 views per ...

Say Goodbye to Living Paycheck to Paycheck: Creating the Roots

This post is part of a series.  To start the series from the beginning, click here.  To browse through the series, click here. The value of money is something so exciting to your young child.  The smallest amount of money seems so large and can be extremely motivating to them.  Around first grade or six years old, schools begin to teach students all about the value of money.  Children learn about pennies and nickels and dimes and quarters and all kinds of bills.  They also lean about dollar bills, face values, and how to add and subtract with all of ...

The Ultimate List of Blogging Groups on Facebook

I've been blogging for a little under a year and the tool that has been the best referrer for me is Facebook.  When I first started my blog, I joined three Facebook blogging groups and shared very regularly in all of them.  Over time, I've discovered many other groups.  It has since become too difficult to try to remember which groups have which type of threads each day so I've created this list of groups and thread types. I know the images below are hard to read, so I've added a download link for the excel file.   I find myself ...

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