You know what I really enjoy in a weblog? Knowing who or what I’m going to be reading about. The Antique Mommy doesn’t waste any time with that by providing readers with a brief introduction to her weblog right at the top of the site’s layout: “I was nearly 44 when I had my baby. This blog chronicles the mostly joys and sometimes challenges of living in the brave new world of hot flashes, sloppy cookie kisses and trimming itty bitty finger nails while wearing bi-focals.”
The site only has archives listing back to July 2005. The very first post goes into detail on how The Antique Mommy wound up a mommy, and how she decided on this name of this weblog. It’s a really great entry to start off this weblog, and I felt like I knew quite a bit more about the “behind the scenes” life of The Antique Mommy. It’s a great way to start reading this site.
The design is simple. It’s a site hosted by Blog*Spot, and appears to be somewhat of a standard template. It’s a two-column design that compliments the site well. With her profile at the top of the site, it immediately clues readers in on the information they’re about to read. She lists her archives, recent posts, and different blogs she reads along the left-hand column. The different browns that are used in the layout – the different pattern background, the hyperlinks, and the color used behind the text – all mesh very well together. Unlike many sites, this is one that’s very visually kind and that’s always appreciated in the blog world.
Turning her toddler’s developing speech into a round of Jeopardy, finding out her innocent little son is ratting her out on all of their shopping trips and fast food lunch excursions, and just the general fun and hijinks that come along with parenthood are examples of some of the entertaining entries you’ll read throughout the five months of archives.
The Antique Mommy is a great writer. Her entries seem more like short stories, and whether the posts have pictures of her adorable son or happen to be about how she and her husband (The Antique Daddy) are adjusting to life with little Sean, they always seem to pull at one heartstring or another. The entries are certainly enjoyable to people that are at all entertained by little kid stories.
My biggest complaint (and I use that word very lightly) is that there aren’t more posts to read. With a little boy who has just turned two, though, I can see how the lack of free time could definitely be a roadblock. Readers should take advantage of the posts that are there and enjoy reading about this sudden change in the Antique Mommy’s life. NULL