Seeing the title of “Antique Mommy” gave me the impression that this blog was about an older woman who’d had a child. I wasn’t far wrong in my initial impression. The blog is written by a 44 year old who had her first child, there seems to be no about me page, and the brief user profile that blogger allocates doesn’t really tell you much about the writer. Seeing this blog listed as humour did bias my judgement a bit, in so much as I was expecting the blog to have funnier content.
The only entry that mildly amused me was the “Part-Time Pet” entry and that’s only because I seem to have a morbid amusement with people that have phobias in regards to animals, which I can happily add I am one too! I do believe that this blog would be better placed under the personal blog category as I just can’t find the funnier content in there.
The blog itself is a simple blogger layout. Easy to read and navigate. The links all work as I had no trouble using the archive links at all. There are a few links down the bottom of the blog that relate to different sites and the usual blog list of friends. The good news is that there was no other clutter, which was nice.
Antique Mommy is sometimes amusing and sometimes not, I think the more the author writes in her blog, the more she finds herself and her own writing style, it’s nice to see the development through the entries.
But the blog is basically the journey of the author who is mapping her child’s life online. Some entries are funny, some make you smile and others seem like they are just entries of day to day happenings. It’s interesting reading as there are not many blogs out there that I’ve come across that are written by older mothers who are experiencing motherhood for the first time. I only gave this blog a 3.5 because I just found that it is quite like all the other mum blogs out there, except the different being the author is older. But still it is a worth a check out, see if you like it.
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