TMC welcomes Tracy, author of the blog Sellabit Mum. She is one awesome blogger and one hell of a vlogger, too! She’s totally got her act together staying authentic with a touch of sarcasm – the perfect mix for a mom blog. She’s one of the most supportive tweeps I know so be sure to get to know her better! Here is how she describes herself and her blogging journey in her own words:
“My name is Tracy and I blog at Sellabit Mum. No worries as I am neither celibate nor British. I like to say I am just Midwestern and have a headache, but I do have three daughters to prove my “I am not celibate” point. Ahem. If you want to know how my unusual blog name came about – you can watch my vlog.
I have been blogging for over three years. I started my blog after my last miscarriage as a way to celebrate my then two beautiful daughters and to find joy again. Also blogging is much cheaper than counseling. I’ve always been a very sarcastic person and found that my blog brought out my funny again. I need to laugh at myself and also laugh at my kids, because oh my word kids do strange things.
One day I hope my kids will understand my brilliant sarcasm and not give me blank stares as they are my main audience and are a very tough crowd.
I came by motherhood quite by accident. I mean, I know how it physically happened (wink wink) but never planned it to happen. I was a Marketing Manager for a Fortune 100 company for fifteen years and lived and traveled all over the world and assumed that would be my life until retirement. And then one day I found myself married and pregnant and BOOM my world shifted. I quit my job when my second daughter was six months old – that was six years ago and I never looked back. I love being at home.
Also after four losses, I found myself pregnant and 40 with our third daughter. She will be two shortly – which makes me 33 if I do my math correctly – and she is the icing on the cake for us.
Besides blogging, motherhood, and of course gourmet cooking (cough), my husband and I own a small business and I am an independent rep for an incredibly fast growing children’s clothing company which feeds my passion for fashion.
I mainly write humor and love to self-depreciate, vlog off-key songs, and have fun, but I am also intensely into photography – so I tend to get serious when showing pictures of my kids and their emotions that come out in those shots. They speak to me and at times bring me to tears as I never knew how amazing motherhood could be.
I hope you will come over and say hi and laugh a bit or tell me how awesome my skin looks for my age. I am so excited to be here today. Thank you, Heather – you have such an incredible community!”
Be sure to check out the blog and follow her on Twitter! New to TMC? Join us! We LOVE new members! *To be considered as a Featured TMC Blogger, be sure to comment and visit this week’s feature! Have a great weekend ladies!
Thank you Heather! So thrilled to be here today! xoxo
Couldn’t pick a better feature, love Tracy more than I can express in this little comment box!
You always know how to make my day, sweet friend. xoxo
I love people with a sarcastic sense of humor. I’ll def stop by to check out your blog.
Yes, it gets us through. Off to visit you also. Thank you so much!
Love Sellabit Mum! Great choice.
I can’t wait to go check her out I love a good sense of humor!
Hooray! Tracy is pure fabulous!
Ahhh…sarcasm and motherhood, two of my favorite things!
Looking forward to checking your blog out!
Thank you for the sweet visit today. Sarcasm is a lost art at times isn’t it? xo
Absolutely! I just wish someone would tell that to my husband. He doesn’t seem to appreciate that special “talent”
She bring so much joy and fun to her posts.
I was hoping there’d be a mention of your awesome vlogging prowess!
HA! Now I wish I had done a vlog for today!
I LOVE Tracy and her vlogs and her pictures! She is awesome!
Congrats, Tracy for getting your Theta moment!! You deserve it
Congratulations on your TMC day Tracy!
You do not look a day over 33, sweetie. 😉
You are just fabulous, love ya! xoxo
It’s so great to get to know you better. I’m happy to have found your blog.
Fantastic feature – I love Tracy! I never knew we knew how to do the same type of math. 😉
It’s the “new math” – it’s all the rage. xo
Tracy is one of my new favorites! Congrats on the feature.
Hi Tracy, just stopped by and joined your blog. Can’t wait to check it out but…I hear little feet coming down the stairs.
I think those same little feet are at my house..Thank you so much for the visit!
Even though I read Sellabit Mum religiously and already knew most of this, I still read the entire profile anyway. ‘Cuz I lurves me some Tracy.
So glad they featured you!!
I’m familiar with your amazing vlogs and adorable daughters, but I didn’t realize EVERYTHING you do. My goodness, girl, I got exhausted just reading that. Tone it down for the rest of us, will ya?
She’s not at all sarcastic, what a liar.
[love her, lots and lots]
Sorry for the backlog in commenting chickie, I totally never responded to your question from last week! Would *love* to have you “join” us! I have a green box on the site that says Community and when you click on that page, the deets are there. Basically, it’s adding a fabulous profile letting others know where you are! Easy peasy!
Hope to finally get to meet you at a conference soon! xo
No biggie, I’d have figured it out eventually. Thanks!!
Tracy and I have tweeted a bit and I’m embarrassed to say I thought she was a Brit! Yeay for Tracy and her Theta Mom day! The photo of her + daughters on her home page is gorgeous. Stalking – I mean – following sellabitmum’s blog now.
yay, tracy!!! love you!!
oh shoot – just realized how i was supposed to do this. tracy rocks – she’s who inspired me to “revamp” my own blog. love you, t!
I am so thankful to Theta and Tracy for putting together this post. I follow you both on twitter, however when I would see Sellabitmum tweet I was often, like what ? After receiving my email of this post, I was interested in learning more about Tracy and went to her blog, and also watched her VLOG on the name.
Thank Goodness the puzzle is solved! Great post.
As a new blogger, I appreciate all the great blogs & out of there. Keep them coming! 😉
I absolutely adore Tracy! She is the vlogging queen.
I love sarcasm! I’m off to check out your blog now!
Sarcasm makes the world go ’round, so I think you’re golden.
Also, you take pretty pictures, so if they don’t inherit your sarcasm gene, you can just distract them with how cute they are
SO glad you didn’t do a vlog. I mean, I’m sure it’d be super-awesome, but, well… 😉
Anyway, awesome to see you here! And Heather, you picked a great one. Tracy is one of my favorites – as a blogger, but more important, as a person. I’m thrilled more bloggers will get a chance to know her!
xoxo
Tracy is one of my favorite “New friends” in blogland. She is so pretty and funny and her pictures are PHENOMENAL. She is just “right” in every respect.
I loved seeing her here.
Wonderful feature, as always. This is the best place to go when you want to know where to start your weekly blog reading frenzy!
I’m so late to this party, but I love me some Tracy! Congrats on being featured here!
It’s my favorite Vlogtalk-er!
Being new to the blogging scene I LOVE learning about fantastic blogs! This is absolutely one of them! Tracy, you’re a HOOT!!!
Tracy is one of those bloggers who always catch my eye but I haven’t connected with her on her blog. Will fix that, STAT!