There is a sudden serious spike in my visitor numbers and no corresponding incoming links, and it is January, one of the laziest months in the year on the interwebs. Why so many of you all of a sudden, who are you, how did you get here, who referred you? Lurkers de-lurk.
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Hello! I found you on Once Daily (but I don’t think I’m responsible for a traffic spike – perhaps we’re all bored & having a 5 min reading-adult-conversation break in the school holidays?)
not sure if i’ve ever left a comment before; i’ve been reading since about April. i think i originally found you via your review of Bettina Arndt’s book.(it was either that, or via Hoydens.) i also sometimes email friends and tell them to read your posts. but i don’t have *that* many friends!
I’ve been reading you through google reader for a long time–I think someone liked to a post you did once about feminist parenting, maybe? can’t quite remember. I finally clicked on a bunch of the links in your retrospective.
Hi!
I’ve been reading for about a year (wait…maybe longer?), mostly through my Google reader. Dunno if I’ve commented before, but I found you through Lesbian Dad or Fly My Pretty – not sure which.
Oakland, CA USA
I have had you in my google reader for ages. But I’ve not actually read you for a while so I went through and read and followed links etc for all the posts I’ve missed for quite a while.
All of my Christmas books failed to deliver so I returned to the interwebs for entertainment.
Google reader recommended you to me, a week or two ago, based on the other blogs I’m reading. Blame Google?
I found you through a German feminist blog (maedchenmannschft.de) and have been reading ever since. Your blog is fantatstic!
I have the blog http://katy-iseeyou.blogspot.com/ and I found you through Kelly at taurus rising ……….. I wrote about disney princesses, the changing Dora and my ‘mot fitting the mould’ at Mothers Group and she thought I would like your blog…which I love! You are a mum/woman after my own heart!
I *am* sort of lurky but I’ve been reading you all along, so I guess I’m not responsible for the spike. Here’s a weird thing – I had a dream about being in Australia the other night (I’ve never been) and in the dream I kept thinking I must comment on your blog to let you know and maybe try to meet up with you.
I discovered you thru the femina-elisa.blogspot.com I think. Left a comment a week or so ago. Enjoing what I read. I am on the look out for women who think about themselves, others and the world at a deeper level. your blog is ticking those boxes. thank you.
I’ve been lurking around since before Lauca was Lauca, but I did notice that your feed on bloglines dropped out some time before christmas and i had to manually fix it up again. I think i found you via crazy brave.
I’ve been reading you for about four months, but I’ve never left a comment. I spent a lot of time on here this week, though, because I had to catch up on all the posts you linked to in your retrospective. I think I found you through Hoyden About Town, which I had discovered by reading Shakesville. It’s been great to learn what impact feminism has on you as a mother and how being a mother impacts your feminism. I myself am not a mother, so I like to get a different perspective.
I will de-lurk as well…have read you for awhile now. I think I came to this site through another blog but I can’t remember which one. Sorry I’m bad at leaving comments, but I very much enjoy your blog and focus on feminism.
Hi, I rode in on the google train after doing a search for feminist bloggers. I love what I see here and I’ve added you to my blog roll and I’m going to make you part of my daily read. Consider me officially de lurked, although technically, one day does not a lurker make.
I think I came to you via a google search for feminist parenting. Your spare prose conveys so much, and so cleanly… it is quite beautiful, especially for someone like me, known for my extreme verbosity! I’m starting my own blog – profligatepromiscuoustrumpet to get my own thoughts out on feminism and parenting – partly inspired by you.
Your son is only a couple months older then my daughter – but he seems to be much more mobile then mine, who is still mastering the art of crawling.
Hi,
I’ve been reading since my son arrived – nearly three years ago now. Can’t remember exactly how I arrived at your site, but it has been a life saver. I actually don’t read any other parenting sites regularly now (too busy having fun – and not having fun – with my toddler) but I read your every post. Thanks!
ha ha, i’m a lurker too, have been for ages, not sure if i have commented though. i was a big fan of the discussions on brisbane feminism online and followed some of the blog recommendations. i’ve got many friends and siblings with kids / impending kids, and this blog and others that i read help me understand what they are going through. i’ve also been interested in gender roles and family work since i studied it in pych; it’s fascinating that even couples who had quite equal division of labour revert to more traditional and inequal divisions after having children. i would love to say “yay for male privilege” but that is just too simplistic. since you linked to it in the last post, i’ve also been thinking about the discussion about miscarriage and how that grief is such a private affair.
nothing like asking the lurkers to leave to bring ‘real’ readers out of the woodwork
Jo from Living Savvy put me on to you and I LOVED the retrospective post … thoughtful, honest and robust conversations …. came at a time when I was particularly discouraged about the lack of substance in many conversations I was following, especially ones about feminism, motherhood and life in general.
Wow, ask and you shall receive. My heart goes pitter pat.
Thanks everyone (and special kudos for those people who de-lurked and who have been following me since before Lauca was Lauca, my my you stayed so quiet for so long).
I’m not entirely sure how I came about finding you, it may have been through the tag surfer, or it may have been via Noble Savage or MFWL, I couldn’t say!
I’m mum to a 2 1/2 year old little girl and a breastfeeding group facilitator in the UK. I can also be occasionally found rambling (usually about language) here: http://www.youronions.blogspot.com
I really love your style and pictures
Hi,
I think I’ve commented before. I have a son and daughter a similar age to yours and have really enjoyed reading your blog over the years.
In fact, I quoted you in an article I wrote recently for Subtext here in the UK – I hope that’s ok!
I’ve been reading you for quite some time, and through my google reader at that…so I’m probably not a contributor to the spike. But, since I’ve been reading you long enough that I can’t remember how I got here originally (probably another blog, but maybe google reader suggested you) and I’m pretty sure I’ve lurked the whole time, I thought I’d take a minute to de-lurk.
I’m in my late 20′s (in fact, only 5 months left!) starting grad-school soon (in medical anthropology and nurse midwifery) and kids will be in the picture sometime in the next 5 years.
I think I was originally drawn to your blog because of it’s feminist take on life and motherhood, but now I just tend to enjoy most of what you have to say regardless of the topic. I share posts of yours with friends (some of them mothers, some of them not…some of them women, some of them not) on a not irregular basis too.
I started reading your blog last year when I was pregnant and was searching for feminist parenting websites/information etc. I regularly check in and always enjoy reading. An added bonus has been being pregnant and having a baby at similar times (Aife arrived on 28th April) so I enjoy seeing and (much to my chagrin) comparing progress. It’s nice getting an idea of what I can look forward to -toothy grins and crawling.
I was hanging about in December and have just returned… A friend of mine referred me to you, because she knows I want to be a midwife and thought some feminist parenting would interest me.
It does! Thank you very much
I too have had you on my Google reader for quite a while now. I might have found you through Shapely Prose or Shakesville- I don’t remember now. I have an 18 month old son and I think I started reading when I was pregnant. We seem to have quite a bit in common- feminist, breast feeding, co-sleeping, attached, working parent in a partnered, non-married relationship. I really relate to you and enjoy your writing. Oh, and I remember reading that you liked Belle & Sebastian- I almost didn’t need to know any more
I wish I knew you in real life and not just on the internet. So if you ever decide to come to Philadelphia feel free to get in touch.
I can’t remember how I found you, but I think it was when I was first pregnant? My daughter is 15 months now and you remind me to laugh at the ‘parenting sucks’ moments, because god knows it does. Also, I read many of your posts out to my husband, and he appreciates them too. We co sleep, attach parent, all that, so I like to hear your slant on things. Hey, I was thinking, Lauca seems very creative – you got a Waldorf school nearby for her? Not that its any of my business
See, thats what the internet does to you – in my head, I’ve just put the kettle on and we’re having a chat.
I too have been reading for a while – I think I started a little before you settled on Lauca’s name – a lot of the retrospective sounded familiar.
I’m sure I’ve commented before and I must have some inferiority complex because mosly I feel guilty when I read your blogs – guilty that I’m not gusty enough to be as honest or open about my own feminist/equalitist efforts, concerns, fears and shortcomings. I hope/expect to start with kids in the next few years and although I don’t expect to do attachment parenting, I know I’m going to have such dilemmas with equality, motherhood and little girl/boy gender issues. (At my work, I am the one who bitterly bags the Herald Sun and raises the feminist eyebrow at coworker shenanigans, as though that’s the worst I could do. Meanwhile I simmer in consternation about all that I should do).
Anyway, you give me words for my gut feelings about many issues bouncing around.
Thank you.
Oh I want to meet you all, you sound very lovely!
I came across your blog quite by accident, while trolling google looking for something to cheer up my then-pregnant good friend. I’ve just finished a masters in creative writing, and love to read. I’m not a mother, but it’s in the works. I live in Texas. The first thing I read of yours made me laugh out loud (the list you wrote about Cormac: “10 Things We Like Least about the Baby Aged…”) I quickly forwarded it to my friend, and have been returning to your blog ever since. I also like your social commentaries–so often a link in your writing leads me to another blog, another essay, another thought-provoking piece. And when I reach the bottom of the rabbit hole, I come back here. Thank you for sharing your life with us, and for doing it in such a warm, honest, funny way.