thrive moms

Have you connected with the Thrive Moms community? If you are a momma, and you haven't, you should. I'm loving it. I'm loving a lot of little blogs lately that inspire moms and wives. We have a very important role in our family and in society and receiving inspiration and boosts from other women like ourselves is a great encouragement. Something I would really love to do is be a part of a community with other ladies to use my gifts to encourage others. Today I found out about an opportunity to be on the team of photographers at Thrive Moms. I am far from professional in my photography, but I put my heart into it, just like I put my heart into being a momma. I am not a professional at that either, even though I have three littles. I still have a lot to learn, but I hope to always grow in both mothering and photography. Here are a few photos I am sharing with the team at Thrive Moms. And, you can follow me on Instagram @ciaomarezy to see more glimpses at life our little life!

blog re-do

Back in 2009 I had what I thought was a brilliant idea to start a blog. Now in 2013 I finally thought it deserved a nice little facelift. The hubs is amazingly talented with all things computer, even though he doesn't realize it. He is giving me his spare time here and there to work on updating ciaomarezy.com. He started with buying the domain name, so now instead of going to my blogspot address, you can just go right to www.ciaomarezy.com! I'm pretty excited about that. He made me a nice new header, all simple and clean like I asked and is adding fun new additions. When it is all complete, which will hopefully not be too long from now, I will write a post to explain what the new areas feature. I still don't consider myself a real blogger, like Paige, or Sasha, or Kim, or lots of others I read daily, but for my own sake and the readers I do have, I want it to look nice and be an enjoyable read. I hope you like to new changes coming to Ciao Marezy! And thank you again to the most wonderful hubs ever for making my crazy changes possible! For any of you that are readers, and real bloggers, what are the best tips for starting out from a little blog like this to the real thing?