the family that blogs together...

If you were to look at my blog roll, or alphabetical link love as I like to call it, you would see that... well you would see that it's probably out of date... and large... but what you might not see is that I have several family members on that list.

Ever notice that guy I call DaddyKaos...  guess what... he calls himself Daddy "Kaos" because he's my real actual true to life father.

Then there's the lovely Mielikki...  Her name isn't really Mielikki, nor is it Mie as I so often lovingly refer to her because I am too lazy to type her entire handle, but she is really my cousin.  She's my father's sister's youngest child...

And then there's Xithor...  He writes The Droid Whisperer, occasionally.  He's also my mom and dad's child.  Their son.  Which would make him my... that's right, brother.

That's a whole lot of family for this one little corner of the internet...

They're just the blog writing portion of my family though...  there are even more family members skulking about my blog, peeping in my mind and running away.

Like my mom who, though she doesn't always comment, seems to read everyday...  hi mom!

There's my sister-in-lawish, Sadimac, she's been known to pop by a time or two.

Hell, even her mom has mentioned in passing that she has perused the space I call mommifiedme...

My favorite aunt has popped by once to leave a comment and I swear I've seen my grandma skulking around silently thinking she goes unnoticed...

...and I would be completely remiss if I forgot to mention that I am lucky enough to count my husband as one of my most faithful readers...

That's a lot of family contained within these cyber walls.  A lot of people who get their daily, weekly or maybe just monthly dose of Cami in the form of a blog post.

A lot of people that I love sneaking about on my pages.

And truth be told I don't find it odd at all that they're here...  but even though I'm happy to have them here, I don't write my blog for them.

This didn't start as a place to keep my family up to date on the day to day happenings of the CamiKaos they all know and love.  Honestly a good deal of my family never would have known who I was at all today if they hadn't been pointed this way.  Shown my internet presence.  Been given the snarky CamiKaos howdy doo.

It's been such a gift to me that my family reads what I pour onto these pages.  That they're able to see me for who I am, read my uninterrupted thoughts, marvel at the insanity of my rants, sigh at my vast consumer whoring, smile at my triumphs and shake their head at my stupidity...

Then there's friends, both old and new that stop by for the occasional

It makes my day to see they've been here...

But what about you, and you, and you over there in the back with your hand up over your face hoping no one will see you...  You read me too, and... oddly... that warms my heart.

It makes me feel like I've got a great big internet family.

Happy stuff babies, and no... I swear... I haven't been drinking.

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I wrote this post to answer the simple question David posed on his weekend wandering...  Does your family read your blog?

I think I answered it way up there at the top...

when I started this post my family did read my blog... but now they're bored to death just like the rest of you... so I suppose they may have stopped.