My First Blog Post Ever

Hello, World! Happy Independence Day!

I remember when my sister took a trip to Ireland and told me she was going to keep a blog so we could all follow her adventures. I was like "what's a blog?" Now she keeps a blog detailing her current adventures in Japan.

Since then I've been a regular follow of several blogs, when I have the time, but never thought I'd have much to fill the pages of one of my own. Correction: I know *everyone* has interesting things happen to them every day, and certainly there is a lot to *say* about my life as a stay-at-home mother of 5, but I could never justify writing a blog just so that others could follow the sometimes hair-raising drama of my life.

Now that I'm trying to start an online business, though, I've become convinced that having a blog will at least help direct traffic to my online store. Which I don't have yet. Actually, I only set up this blog last night. And I don't yet know what I will be selling at my online store. Or how to do it.

So I admit that I'm fairly clueless about online retailing. Someday soon I'll post about *why* I'm pursuing this and maybe it will begin to make sense to all of us. Hopefully, I'm enough of an expert in other areas that some of my expertise will leak out into the blog and at least keep people reading. Perhaps as I stumble through all the sludgy home business resources on the internet, I can help point others away from the scam artists and give out useful information I pick up along the journey.

When people start reading this blog, I'd welcome suggestions on what-to-sell, where-to-sell-it, how-to-sell-it, and so forth.

Don't let me get ahead of myself, though. After all, this is only my first blog post ever.