Dreams To Do

My 1st wordpress post + thoughts on this here blog…

Two years ago I was in a rut. I was feeling down on myself for not doing more with my life. Sure, I had a job that I liked, a wonderful husband, and a beautiful baby, but in terms of myself, I wasn’t satisfied. I wanted to start holding myself accountable for doing more - for going for my little dreams. Enter blogging. Dreams To Do was born and a new, improved version of me was born along with it. This new me isn’t as lazy, or as scared to try new things. She’s still a dreamer who struggles with procrastination, but she’s also much more of a do-er.

This blog has brought me so much happiness. It’s my place to just be me – the place where I can just “write it out” and put all of my hopes, and thoughts, and life’s little moments out there into the universe. It’s a place where hopefully someday my children will be able to get an outsider’s perspective on who mommy really is. It’s where I’ve met new friends and joined a community of awesomeness beyond my wildest dreams. It may all sound cheesy, but at this point I can’t imagine my life without blogging.

So what’s next for my little corner of the web? Well, first of all she has a new home and a new look. I’ve made the switch from Blogger to a self-hosted WordPress blog. Why? I’m planning for the future. I want my blog to live somewhere where I own EVERY aspect of it – where I have complete control over every little detail. Someday I would love to launch a business off of this blog. Maybe a jewelry line. Maybe an ebook (or two). Maybe something else. So, I might as well have my little ole blog living somewhere that I can grow and change easily in the future.

Bye-bye cute little Blogger blog…
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So, since I’m on WordPress now, I won’t be using GFC for my blog any more. If that’s how you followed along with me before, I’m not sure how this will affect you. I hope that if needed, you will consider subscribing to my RSS feed (HERE) or choose to get my posts delivered by email (HERE). I really don’t want to lose any of you loyal readers! Let me know if you need any help. I would also love your feedback if you are having trouble connecting to my blog, seeing any posts, or if you run into any broken links. Switching blog hosts is not an easy task!

Thank you so much to all of my bloggy supporters out there! LOVES!

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  • http://alazycrazylife.blogspot.com/ beckyj

    LOVE the new site and header!! Makes me want to refresh mine a bit (although I really don’t like change, lol). I follow you in my Google reader via GFC, and this post showed up like normal. Hopefully that’ll continue to be the case, but if not, it’s easy enough to just manually bookmark you in there :)

    • http://www.dreamstodo.com Ariel

      Thanks for letting me know Becky! The switch was such a headache!!

      • http://alazycrazylife.blogspot.com/ beckyj

        The only bummer is that now I don’t think I get automatically get notified of comments, and I didn’t see a way to opt in. Do you know of any way to change this? That was definitely one thing I like about disqus.

  • http://thememoirsofmegan.com Megan

    Yayyyyyyyy!! I love the new look! It looks amazing!

    • http://www.dreamstodo.com Ariel

      Thanks Megan! So far I’m loving WordPress but I’m getting a ton more spam comments than I did on blogger. Do you get a ton of spam??

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  • http://asortafairytaleblog.com Mandy@ a sorta fairytale

    Looks wonderful!!! I really like it!

    • http://www.dreamstodo.com/ Ariel @ Dreams To Do

      Thanks so much Mandy – this means a lot!

  • http://palmtreemama.wordpress.com Fiona (palmtreemama)

    Yay!!! I love the new look!!! :) I also switched to WordPress (as you know) and am really happy with it so hopefully you like your switch too. I see above that you have been getting more spam. That’s a shame. I wonder why? I haven’t gotten any so far.

    • http://www.dreamstodo.com/ Ariel @ Dreams To Do

      Seriously, it is SO bad! I’ve gotten like 50 spam comments so far. :-( I just re-installed the Disqus commenting platform, so I’m hoping that may help. If not, I’ll have to explore other options. Only had a handful of spam comments in all my time on blogger!

      • Lindy Coops

        Check Antispam Bee plugin, it’s said to be great!

        • http://www.dreamstodo.com/ Ariel @ Dreams To Do

          Thanks Lindy! Haven’t been spammed since adding Disqus, but if it starts up again, I’ll check this out! Talk to you soon!

  • http://www.pecklife.com/ Emily @ PeckLife.com

    Congrats on your beautiful new blog. I LOVE the layout and design!! :D

    • http://www.dreamstodo.com/ Ariel @ Dreams To Do

      Thanks Emily! It feels so much cleaner and more current. :) I am SO jealous of your Alt adventures! Maybe next year…