Every Monday night, my boyfriend and I along with a set of close friends {^^^^^} get together for "Dinner Club". We rotate houses and take turns hosting and cooking. It's really quite nice. One of the lovely ladies in our little club, Hayley Mann, brought to my attention the amazing world of Mormon Housewife Bloggers. You familiar?
As a "social media marketer", I am not new to the world of blogging. However, I was new to this type of blogging. A whole new sect of bloggers who portray family life as what it "aught to be" so to speak. I, like everyone else who has tasted the sweetness became addicted and started following these bloggers online and on Instagram. Meet my favorite of the bunch, taza-and-husband-and-baby eleanor:
On Friday mornings, I belong to a "mom's group". We meet and talk babies and mothering and wife-ing. {I'm pretty sure i have the oldest child by quite a bit and am the only single, working mother who is co-habitating with their boyfriend, nevertheless, it makes me feel one step closer to the "ideal" by attending}. These ladies happen to be Christians. <not the lame stereotypical kind either- cough, cough *disclaimer> I started to realize my attraction to them and to the Mormon bloggers was very similar. Very positive, very upbeat, pure hearted, very traditional women…with might I add, good taste. 
As I read more and more about these Mormon Mommy bloggers, I came across an interesting article and I've cut and pasted what I found to be relevant below. I feel inspired in a sense from the Mormons to do what they do. I think it's good for a number of reasons, so therefore, I am back in blogging action. I am not married, I am not Mormon, and I'm not pregnant nor do I have any little bambinos. However, I hope to be soon enough and perhaps then I can emulate these happy-go-lucky LDS women. See below for article:
"At first glance, Naomi and Stacie and Stephanie and Liz appear to be members of the species known as the "Hipster Mommy Blogger," though perhaps a bit morecheerful and wholesome than most. They have bangs like Zooey Deschanel and closets full of cool vintage dresses. Their houses look like Anthropologie catalogs. Their kids look like Baby Gap models. Their husbands look like young graphic designers, all cute lumberjack shirts and square-framed glasses. They spend their days doing fun craft projects (vintage-y owl throw pillow! Recycled button earrings! Hand-stamped linen napkins!). They spend their weekends throwing big, whimsical dinner parties for their friends, all of whom have equally adorable kids and husbands.
But as you page through their blog archives, you notice certain "tells." They're super-young (like, four-kids-at-29 young). They mention relatives in Utah. They drink a suspicious amount of hot chocolate. Finally, you see it: a subtly placed widget with a picture of a temple, or a hyperlink on the word "faith" or "belief." You click the link and up pops the official website of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
FromRockstar Diaries to Underaged and Engaged to Nie Nie Dialogues to Say Yes to Hoboken, Mormon lifestyle bloggers occupy their very own corner of the blogosphere.
A recent discussion of Mormonism on the blog Jezebel unleashed a waterfall of confessions in the comments section from other young non-religious women similarly riveted by the shiny, happy domestic lives of their Latter-day Saint sisters.
"They have lovely homes, picture-perfect kids, loving, super-attentive husbands, and things seem very normal and calm," writes a commenter named BrookeD, who admits to reading five Mormon blogs daily.
These blogs are weirdly "uplifting." To read Mormon lifestyle blogs is to peer into a strange and fascinating world where the most fraught issues of modern living — marriage and child rearing — appear completely unproblematic.
Their lives seem adorable and old-fashioned and comforting.
There's been a lot of talk in recent years about "the New Domesticity" — an increasing interest in old-fashioned, traditionally female tasks like sewing, crafts and jam making. Some pundits see this as a sign that young women yearn to return to some kind of 1950s Ozzie and Harriet existence, that feminism has "failed," that women are realizing they can't have it all, after all.
So why are Mormon women such prolific bloggers? "It probably has something to do with the fact that Mormons are the world's biggest journal-keepers. Church elders have long encouraged members to keep regular journals for the dual purposes of historical record-keeping and promoting spiritual insight, and as a result Mormons are champion journalers. In the 2000s, church elders began officially promoting new media technologies like blogs as a way of spreading the gospel, and the Mormon blogging community soon became so large it earned itself a punny nickname: the Bloggernacle.
I happen to be particularly fond of
Rockstar Diaries, pictured above. So, take a moment to peruse and bookmark. You can also follow her on Instagram by searching @taza or on Twitter @loveTaza.
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