New York City here I am!

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cheesecake, dogs, Mother's day, New York, parks, postaday2013, wisteria

The babies, my hubby, Jack and I hopped in the car and we all descended on to New York City to see my mother and sister and her family. I traveled with the cheesecake in the front seat, it traveled well as did Jack, he was in the front seat with me as well.lol The only tough thing about being in the city with Jack is the whole going to the bathroom thing. He’s a country dog and there isn’t enough country in New York to meet his requirements, not to mention the intense distractions all around, it makes his bathroom experience a little stressful. This won’t put a damper on our visit, I will just have to walk him long enough and far enough where he won’t have a choice but to go to the bathroom, it will be far from the indications of earlier today. Good exercise for both of us, that’s the bright side that I need to keep in mind.

Happy news on the baking front, my mother broke down and asked me to cut her a sliver of cheesecake tonight and she loved it. She couldn’t wait until Sunday, hee, hee. That made me happy, just knowing that someone really enjoys what I have made them makes my day. It fills me with much happiness. Hooray for me.:)

Tomorrow is an open book, we have the whole city as our oyster. We can visit uptown, downtown, Eastside or Westside or a mixture of each.

My stomach is so full from all the sushi we had this evening at a new Japanese restaurant not far from my mother’s house. The occasion was to celebrate the coming end of baby boy’s college education and sushi is his favorite. I have one big belly, it will gradually go down tonight. It’s only fish and rice, all good going down and so good for you on top of it.

I hope that Jack gets used to New York, it will make his life easier and mine too. He does get the “aw he’s so cute” looks everywhere we go and he has had fun chasing the fat squirrels in the park. I don’t worry for the squirrels, they are extremely savvy and no country dog on a leash will ever catch one. Jack sure does like trying.

Personal space

To what extent is your blog a place for your own self-expression and creativity vs. a site designed to attract readers? How do you balance that? If sticking to certain topics and types of posts meant your readership would triple, would you do it?

My blog is most definitely my place to express what I am thinking about, concerned about, passionate about and the little things that happen in my day to day life. The positive reinforcement that I get when I get comments and likes gives me a definite lift. However would I change my creative output only to get more traffic, I don't know because a strong reason for my writing is for its therapeutic value for myself. I need to write my blog in ways that make me happy and answer my need to get things out so if it doesn't get immense circulation or traffic that's fine. I appreciate whoever comes my way and joins me in my writing journey, I have developed important friendships in my two and half years of writing and I wouldn't trade them for anything. Before starting my blog, I had forgotten how immensely satisfying pen pal relationships can be, before the rise of the internet and social media. All I know is that I will keep writing and maintaining my friendships and along the way hopefully I'll make new friends. It's an evolving thing, writing and readership, it rarely remains static and that is what makes it so interesting and exciting.