Should We Be Called "Mommy Bloggers"?

Mommy [Mom] Blogger is what most of us are called, but is that a complimentary or derogatory term?  

It really depends on who you ask.  Personally, I embrace the term Mommy Blogger because that's just what I am.  My blog doesn't specifically have a niche, I post about anything that I feel passionate about and I am a mommy of two wonderful girls.  I don't know why I would want to be called anything else.  To me, a creative mind, the term blogger just sounds and feels so flat.  (Yes, that "Mommy" before it really spruces it up!) However many journalists and writers that "just don't understand" give mommy bloggers a bad name; that's why many want to be known strictly as bloggers or writers.  

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What Makes a Mommy Blogger Popular?

I love reading other blogs and Domestic Diva was one of the first blogs that actually inspired me to write more about my kids, my life and to become a mommy blogger. However, I think about some of these other mommy bloggers that are considered among the most popular of the "mommy bloggerdom" (Yes, I made up a new word. It's cool dammit!!) and I wonder just why they're so popular. Don't get me wrong, I love some of these very popular mommy bloggers, I love to read their blogs and follow them daily, but what makes them any different than the rest of us? They have good designs, but so do a lot of other blogs, some of the little known ones. Sure they write well, but other blogs do as well. Some of these very popular blogs haven't been around for too long -- how do they skyrocket to bloggy fame?

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