TMC welcomes Joanna, author of the blog Raising Madison. Joanna is a fantastic blogger I found through TMC and she is another blogger who tells it like it is with tons of sheer honesty. She also has quite a story to share especially being a cancer survivor. She isn’t afraid to speak her mind and she often blogs about her adorable little girl and the journey they are on together. Here is how she describes her blog in her own words:
“Hey y’all, I’m Joanna, wife to Clint & mother to Madison. I hate wearing pants to bed, sometimes curse like a sailor & frequently steal my daughter’s hair clips to wear as accessories. I’m hot-headed (I am a natural red head, it is in our DNA), opinionated & fiercely loyal.
I actually started blogging in 2001, back in the age of LiveJournal. I would wax poetic about partying, following Blue October around the state of Texas (yes, I hung out with them) and all of the artsy/Indy things that I was doing in Austin, Texas (the greatest city in the world).
And then I got cancer. And my live journal became about chemotherapy, losing my hair and the unfortunate predicament of being bald and bloated for steroids but still having the desire to be wanted & get laid. I wish I could tell you it was good reading, but I deleted my live journal account a few years ago and I still want to kick myself for it.
I started Raising Madison {life with our hip-baby} (originally titled: Team Osborne) as a project post-wedding. We were newlyweds in our new house and I had this great idea of writing all about how in love we were, house projects and just musings from being a young married couple. And THEN I got knocked up. So I wrote about puking and pink rooms.
Madison was born and I abandoned the blog for a few weeks until we found out she had hip dysplasia. I started doing lots of internet research and realized that there weren’t all that many resources out there that weren’t medical related. I wanted the real stuff like what you do when poop explodes into the cast and how on earth you entertain a child that doesn’t fit into anything. I decided that if I wrote about what we were going through that maybe some other parents would come across my blog and realize that our life hasn’t stopped since her cast and things aren’t bad at all.
Now Madison is cast-free and still is “hip as ever.” The blog will continue as we continue on our road to recovery and start catching up on all of her milestones. I hope you’ll join us on the journey!”
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