Err ... well ... um ... this is a little weird.
Yesterday, concerned that my blog post earlier in the week had unintentionally sparked a heated and potentially divisive debate within the mummy blogging community, I decided that, for the time being at least, I did not want to write a blog.
Now, as a result of a rather unexpected turn of events, I have a ticket for the forthcoming CyberMummy conference in my hand after winning a scholarship to attend; the ticket was kindly donated by an anonymous blogger.
What a difference a day makes.
I'd like to say that to win the ticket I wrote an award-winning report on the evolution of mummy blogging in the UK highlighting key future trends and potential development opportunities. That would be a lie of course and I could write no such report anyway. Instead, my name was pulled out of a hat. The timing, quite frankly, could not be better.
Today started with a sense of grief that this was the end of the blogging road for me, which also meant that I would lose all the blogging friends I have made over the last year.
Then one email notifying me of my win changed everything. Together with the wonderful support I received as a result of my post yesterday, this has given me the motivation to continue and I am grateful. Very grateful.
I am exhausted after the emotion on the last couple of days. I will be taking a short break to relax and refocus, but I am relieved that this isn't the end of the road. I'm just stopped to refuel and then I'll be carrying on along this rather unpredictable blogging journey and who knows where it may lead. I certainly have no idea!
