No I’m not the most googled, or yahooed, or buzzed after thing on the internet.

In fact I’m a zero. On the PR rating scale I rate as a zero.

See I’m new to this having a site business and I spend every spare moment I have stumbling onto new ideas and concepts related to the whole thing. And today’s lesson was how to look up the PR rating of any site. The fact that out of a possible of ten points I don’t even rank a one, well it did not make my day a happier one.

Ok so I don’t have a logo yet. I just figured out how to use twitter, and create a facebook page. And it took me three weeks to figure out how to view the @multiplemama tweets. And I have not been able to figure out how to invite anyone to view my multiplemama.com FB page.

But I am working on all of that.

I think I’m a pretty good writer. Even if I have to write half my posts while standing up in the kitchen between fixing the kids’ lunch and mine. And I think at least some of my stories are mildly amusing. And I have had two giveaways. One which is still going on if you’re interested in a haircut for your kid.

But apparently that still doesn’t qualify me for more than a zero.

So what’s the point? Why bother? It doesn’t matter to anyone else. Why does it matter to me?
Why spend my time resizing photos and proof reading my posts and looking for people that might want to follow me?

This I would have to think about.

But there is very little time for that since the kids are waking up from their naps and there are snacks dishes and laundry to be done. Let alone games of tag and somersaults on the bed that need to be monitored in order to avoid ER trips.

But after dinner is finished… A dinner that only involved one fall off the side of a chair, which was easily taken care by a little cold water and a bandaid. And one glass of spilled water. And one toddler sitting however briefly on the dinner table. I tell my husband I need to “check on my garden.” Which is multiplemama code for “I need some time alone”.

And finally some time to think. To think about the post I read on Mckmama this morning about how we don’t always see what life is handing us. And to think about the friend that came to visit me that morning. And to think about what she had said about my site and my posts.

I guess I had been too busy worrying about my big guy putting a battery powered bubble blower in the bathroom sink to have really heard her as she sat on my couch with her eight week old son. And lamented on the sleeping schedule of her new little man.

She said she checks my site periodically to see what new stories I’ve posted. And even asked my son about his fish story, confessed she was glad to hear of Zen Mama that she wasn’t the only one with inspirational moms that help her carry on.

And I think about a conversation I had with my uncle about launching my site. How I wasn’t trying to get rich but maybe just help a mom or two feel like her life isn’t the only one steeped in chaos.

So guess what? On that scale I’ve been successful!

Yes I may still be a zero on the PR scale. But for at least the time being I know that in one new mom’s life I am just a little bit of inspiration. Even if it only makes her thinkit could be worse.

And while I’m on this positive thinking role, I think of how many more pictures I’ve taken in the last month. Being inspired by my site to have more photos to go with the stories I could tell. I don’t have time to write half of the ideas I have.

But I do actually sit down, or stand up depending on how much time permits, and write about my kids and my life. Something I once loved to do. But didn’t feel like I had time to do anymore. Until I had a reason, my site.

So even if next to no one else is getting anything out of it, I am. And one new mom is.

At peace with my zero I swing by the strawberry plants for one more moment of relative quiet. Although I can still hear some sort of screaming activity brewing inside.

And what do I find? A handful of a harvest.

And a handful of kids ready to eat them!

With the sun quickly setting behind me I grabbed my camera and opened my kitchen door. Lined the kids up on the step and doled out the berries we had grown all on our own. A moment, and photos I would never have dared to allow or capture had it not been for my new site multiplemama.com

So thanks PR 0 I have accomplished everything I hoped to do with this site and it has only been a few months!