Dat Be Nice #4 and a wondering about link parties

Last week in the comment section of Dat Be Nice #3, my old blogging friend Mark asked me, "What are you doing?" And I thought about that for a good, long while.

The simple answer is that the link up party website had a sale, and I have a hard time passing up a bargain when it's been something I've been considering anyway.

The long answer is this:

I've gotten to know a ton of people in the blogging world over the past almost-decade.  But most of my oldest blogging friends are no longer around for one reason or another.

Blogs have niches.   For my own blog reading, my only real prerequisites are that a blogger is either funny OR nice.  I don't even come close to requesting both.  And for whatever reason, my old "niche" tended toward expats living in places far, far away.

But SJ moved to Facebook and Instagram.  Ms. Q dropped off of the face of the blogging earth.  A Free Man stopped blogging.  Who even knows what happened to Total Spender?  If even an 1/8th of his blog posts were true, he's probably in jail or dead.

Oren.  What can I say about Oren?  Except that we should all still be helping him break the internet with this post.

Once I got pregnant with She-Who-Destroys-All-In-Her-Path, I ended up meeting a lot of blogging moms.  Some of them are funny and all of them are nice, and some of them are even funny AND nice.

But I thought with my very own link party, I could attract stuff I enjoy in real life: healthy food/health/diet/exercise stuff, photography/art/DIY/Crafts/basically anything with a glue gun, education/learning/children/books, and humor (of course)

In all honesty,  an entire link party all on my own is probably going to end up to be more internets than I can really handle.  I don't want to do it if I can't do right by people who take the time to come by.  Still, I got the service, so I'm going to give it a try for a few more weeks and see how it goes.

Mark, if you are still reading, I offer you a picture of my kid licking a beer bottle.  Because.

And if you are not still reading...what can I really do?  It's on to the link party, at least for the time being.

This week (and particularly because my party day falls on Christmas - Merry Christmas all!), I'm not going to really worry about "rules".

What would I do to enforce them anyway?  If you like it around here, I'm thinking you'll probably follow and if you don't, you probably won't be back much whether you follow or not.

Please enjoy how last week panned out:

The most clicked post this week was Skye's post about Dragon books (that adults can love too) -

The most pinned was Elizabeth's from All Kinds of Things:

I really loved Menucha's post on naptime tips, mostly because I got to read about babies who ACTUALLY SLEEP, rather than spending the entire sleep time asking for feet to be tucked back in or the CD to be turned louder, softer, on or off.  Plus, look at these cutsey little fingers!

And, if you're featured, here's a button. One day I'll make a prettier one:

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So have fun and link up people! But only if you want to.

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