How much time do women spend blogging and socializing online?

I am very curious about how moms spend their time and how they go through each day. I am the type of person who enjoys quiet time at home, so I guess because I find myself constantly going and going between family and work that sometimes I just wonder if there are much other people like me out there (duh, of course there are!). So, I asked my Work It! Mom (WIM) community how much time they spend blogging or socializing online. I spend probably about 2 hours a night on the average doing these things and sometimes I feel a little guilty about it because there are probably more things I can be doing around the house and such. Blogging and things do help me keep my sanity on a day to day basis though, so that feeling quickly goes away! Here are some responses from the WIM comunity. http://www.workitmom.com/question-2554

it is 10:53 pm i have set a bedtime for myself of about 11pm so i can be up by about 5:30 or 6 and have a decent amount of rest. i've joined a community of working and entrepreneur moms online called work it! mom. i'ts amazing how many of us lead such similar lives. i posted a question on the site asking how many hours of sleep do they get a night and they all said basically the same thing: about 6 average during weekdays and shoot for 8 on the weekends. wow! what is our society coming to? i am young, so can anyone tell me...was it always like this? don't get me wrong, i am very content with my life and am appreciative of everything i have...is there anything wrong though with a woman just wanting to have 1 or 2 hours a night to herself to do something therapeutic like blogging without having to cut into the 8 hours of sleep a night we need? i know there are several successful people in society who get less sleep than that on a regular basis. donald trump gets no more than 5 hours of sleep a night... i am not built that way though! i've tried on numerous occasions to get by on 5 hours a night, because there are other things in life i'd like to accomplish other than making the person i work for rich. i usually end up catching a cold or start falling asleep putting baby cakes to bed or something any way.

anyhoo, i am working on getting baby cakes into a language immersion program in the county for this fall as well as applying for early entrance for her since her birthday is 10/6. i think this is a tremendous opportunity for her, so please put it in prayer. i will visit her local school this friday to apply to 4 different area schools that have them for chinese, spanish, and french. awwwe my baby may start kindergarten this fall, sad and happy faces.

-Mama

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in my blogging endeavors i have decided to create a couple of new blogs!! one is not up and running yet and the other is http://mombloggersanonymous.blogspot.com for mommy blogger addicts, aka mba's. it's goal will be to serve as a resource for moms who blog. the challenge in this: having a successful blog takes a lot of knowledge, time, and dedication. the first 2 of 3 i am pretty low on at the moment and the last will not be a problem as long as i can decide where to put it. how can i dedicate myself to the things i want to accomplish without spreading myself to thin? i guess it's another one of those instances where i just need to keep moving forward because opportunities are multiplied as they are seized and everything will work out, yada yada and whatever other proverbs you can think of. until next time.

-Mama