Mommy Guilt Absolution for Bloggers

I received an email from a friend. She wanted absolution from blog-related mommy guilt.

This mom had written a blog detailing her family's evacuation before and during Hurricane Katrina and the year in the life of her family following their evacuation. Now that the family is resettled, she felt her blog had run its course and she had achieved what she had set out to do.

Now what?

Mommy Guilt! Why keep the blog up any longer if it is no longer active? The thought of deleting it made her feel guilty about not having the history for her kids. But keeping it wasn't really a solution either. Continuing to have the blog posted produced guilt about not keeping the blog current. The other issue, which is not a guilt producer merely a reality, is who knows how long her blog host will keep the information anyway. One day it could all get deleted at the whim of the site where the blog is kept.

Got me thinking that there must be other bloggers who need some absolution from this kind of Mommy Guilt. With so many parents using the blogosphere to journal about the lives of their family, certainly Mommy Guilt can occur if offline life can no longer be chronicled online, due to whatever reason.

So, I hunted around the net and found Burb a site which, for a price, will turn your blog into a bound book. I'm sure there are other sites which do the same thing, so you may wish to do some surfing on the Net. Another option, which is less fancy, is putting your blog onto a CD/DVD, or the old school "printing it out on a printer".

Bottom line there are some options. Mommy Guilt is easier to absolve when you've got options!