Sherry Pardy is a mom to twins, a writer, and a student working on completing her Bachelor’s degree. On top of that she shares her personality and humor at her blog. She is definitely one busy woman and someone I’d love to spend some time with. I enjoyed getting to know her when we spoke on the phone a few weeks ago. Here’s what she had to say.
When did you start blogging?
I started blogging in 2004, about when my husband and I realized that we were gonna have some problems trying to have a baby. . . I found out that I had PCOS, and it was likely gonna pose some big issues with trying to conceive, and I came home devastated. I didn’t know what else to do. And I started researching online and Googling, then I found this blog called Chez Miscarriage, and she was dealing with a different problem, but she was part of this very large community of women who were infertile who had started blogging because it was a cheap way to get therapy. That’s how it started, and it’s just sort of somersaulted from there.
Why do you blog?
It is the best thing I have ever done for myself. It’s truly saved my sanity on many, many, many occasions…Everyone’s kind of got their own set of issues, and I think that’s what kind of brings everyone together and makes this blogging thing a community is that everyone discover that even though all of our issues, whether it be political or infertility or whatever. Whatever your issues are, everyone has their own…it’s like a belly button. You look out there and you realize that you can’t be the only one. It’s so nice to know that you’re not alone.
We have adopted the mantra in this house that the mom is the heart of any operation in the house…the mom is the nucleus of any home. If you’re not content in the direction that your life is going, especially being a stay-at-home mom because it’s a really isolating experience, I’ve found. Without feeling like you’re contributing to something outside your little four walls, you’re gonna go insane. I was doing nothing, I was not contributing to anything. My husband plays a huge role in the development of drugs that could potentially save someone’s life, and here I was thinking I was doing nothing. And since embarking on this journey and trying to get my career off the ground, going back to school, and doing a little something for myself, that has completely changed. It’s been really great. We’re really in place now, I feel like.
What do you share in your blog?
I am very honest and open in my blog. My blog is a very accurate reflection of who I am in real life. I hide nothing. I don’t use a fake name. I don’t hide about where I live. I post pictures of my kids. And I think that comes from before I was a stay-at-home mom, I was in radio, and I was the same way. I used my real name on the air, and I never hid from what I did. I think that, for me, it’s really important to do that because I’ve always had some esteem issues and self-image issues. I think as I’ve gotten older that’s really helped with those issues and kind of squelched them a little bit because I put it out there, I force myself to put it out there. That’s what it is. People take it, people leave it. That’s what it is, and it seems to work.
It’s given me an outlet to talk about things that I wouldn’t necessarily voice to anybody in real life. It’s also introduced me to one of my very best friends, who is a fellow blogger, who I met. She lives just in the next town over. It is my outlet. It was my little outside my four walls of my house that makes me feel like I contribute to something outside my family.
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