TMC welcomes Katie, author of the blog Sluiter Nation. She is without a doubt one of those supportive bloggers who has been with me from the launch of TMC and I’m honored to feature her today! She’s also a fun tweep to get to know on Twitter, so be sure to connect with her and check her out! Here is how she describes her blog in her own words:
“Sluiter Nation started four years ago as a little blog that I referred to as our “family website.” I had no idea that there was such a thing as a blogging community. I just knew that Blogger let you set up your own page where you could write and upload pictures, and I thought that seemed like a pretty good idea. We had lost my husband’s dad and I had suffered a miscarriage and we had gone on trips in our first two years of marriage, so we thought we needed some way to keep everyone updated with things all at once.
The first three years I just updated maybe once or twice a week with my mom and a handful of friends reading. Then I reconnected with a friend from high school who knows a thing or two about blogging and I joined Twitter. The next thing I knew I was a blogger. Not just someone with a blog.
Four years after sitting down and signing up with Blogger, I have moved to WordPress with my own domain, I started a book review blog and a memoir/creative writing blogging space, and I joined the lovely leadership team at The Red Dress Club.
Before, my blog was for family updates. Now my blog is a safe harbor for my words. It’s where I tell my stories just hoping to find my place in this crazy world. It’s where I find other people who get me…who have been through what I have been through…who can relate.
It’s where I find you.
And it’s where we can laugh and cry and then laugh some more.
It’s Sluiter Nation.
It’s my home.”
Be sure to check out the blog and follower 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 on this week’s feature! Have a great weekend ladies!
I LOVE Katie! She is definitely supportive and also does about a million things gracefully.
I hope one day to be able to say, “I’m a blogger & not just someone who has a blog,” too
I realize I’ve been remiss in visiting my Theta Mom girls, what with being away last week! Off to visit Katie and get to know her blog!
Katie – one of my favorite people and bloggers. Her words always touch me in some way – it makes me laugh, cry, blubber, smile. Love her. Congratulations on your TMC day, Katie!
Her blog is so cute! Love her 50 before 50 bucket list. Off to comment on her blog.
I love Sluiter Nation and TRDC so much. Katie, thanks for everything you do for the blog community!
Ahh! Katie is awesome!! Love her millions!
Congrats on your Friday Feature day, e-bestie! Can’t wait to meet you!
Awesome Katie! So happy for you!
Love the new TMC look too!
Oh, I feel the same as Katie! I had no idea about the blogging community until I started my blog. It was always a bit of a mystery to me. Now, what a gift it has been!
Hooray for Katie!
And Heather? Hooray for your new digs!
XO
’round these parts, we love Sluiter Nation! Nice feature…
Katie and her blog are one of my favorites! Awesome feature and congrats to Katie!
I have read the fabulous Sluiter Nation blog before and I’m so happy to see Katie featured today! Congrats!
There isn’t enough space in this little box for me to tell you just how much I adore Katie.
She has such strength, vulnerability, tenacity, compassion, intelligence, and wit, that when bundled together, make for the most amazing human being.
Her writing mirrors those qualities and she is just magic.
So happy to see you featured here, Katie. Love you.
I am such a HUGE fan of Katie & thrilled to see her featured. She rocks my heart.
Huge fan of Katie, and can’t wait to meet her at BlogHer next month!
Oh, I love me some Katie! She captured my heart with her enthusiasm and her brutally honest way of approaching life. Her tweets crack me up, sometimes make me immediately reach out to her, and sometimes just make me smile.
And her blog? She pours her soul out to share with us all. And I love visiting her there.
Katie, I can’t wait to hug you at BlogHer!
Katie was one of the first people I found in the blog world. Yay for being featured!
So happy to see Katie here today!
Yay, I’m so glad Katie is featured today! Her blog definitely deserves a light shone on it! Welcome to the featured club, Katie 😉
Off to give this girl some love!
I look forward to finding Katie in my “inbox” every day! She is an amazing writer
Congrats on your feature, Katie!!
Great pick! I just recently found her blog and look forward to reading more!
So happy to see Katie here today! I love reading Sluiter Nation. The words get me, every single time. She makes me laugh, cry, and smile. Congrats Katie!
I’m so excited to see Katie here!!
She’s an amazing writer and fast becoming a very dear friend. I’m really looking forward to meeting her next month at BlogHer.
I see Katie on Twitter! She’s great!
I LOVE this blog!! I hope one day to become a “blogger” and not just someone who has a blog.
Katie I love your words about how your blog is a “safe harbor for your words.” Love it.
I am so happy that you decided to blog, to start Sluiter Nation. Our world and blogosphere is so much better for it.
What a really lovely write up for Katie!!! She’s a totally fun Tweep and wonderful blogger. Congrats on being the feature today!!!
Katie, you are so inspiring! I’m new to the whole world of blogging, and like you I hope to someday be able to say “I’m a blogger, and not just someone who has a blog”.
Congrats on your TMC day! Heading over to become a follower now! Great write up!
I love how Katie describes the process of finding her voice through blogging. I feel similarly about my own journey.
Thanks for introducing us, Heather!
Katie is one of my FAVORITE BLOGGERS EVER. She is so super supportive, a fantastic writer, and that little boy? Precious. I’m so happy Katie is getting all this love & attention. She deserves it!
Just getting to know her blog and loving it…yay!
“Safe Harbor for your words” I Love it. I am glad to hear that people do make transitions. My first blog site was short lived because I wasn’t really sure what I wanted to do….or what I was doing. lol However, I have learned a lot since then…….lots of great info here at TMC.
Can’t wait to head over and check out your harbor.