May is all about celebrating the wonderful moms in our lives whether it is you own mom, YOURSELF, your sister, best friend, aunt etc. One thing I love about our community is how many hard working momma’s there are out there! This month I am featuring some of the beautiful women in our community.
First up is Steph Flies, owner of City Moms Blog Network…take it away Steph!
1. Please tell our readers a bit about yourself.
Hi there! I’m Steph, the director of a fabulous network of local moms blogs, City Moms Blog Network. I am an always busy, stay at home mom to three little sweetie-pie girls – Nora (July 2009), Elsie (May 2011) and Audrey (Feb 2013), a wife since 2005 to Alan, a social media lover and a former conference & events director. My very favorite things are throwing dinner parties, reading great books, shopping for great deals and spending loads of time with friends.
In 2010, a good friend, Joy Cherrick, and I started Scottsdale Moms Blog out of a desire to connect moms in their community. We saw a need for moms to be able to share local information, recommendations, and build friendships all from the convenience of their mobile phone, tablet or computer. Shortly after, women all over the country began approaching us to do the same thing in their cities. City Moms Blog Network was formed and has since been launching Sister Sites everywhere to connect moms in their community, both online and offline.
3. What do you see for CMBN in the future?
I’d love to see a City Moms Blog Network continuing to meet the need of connecting moms together in communities all across the US (and world) by having sister sites in all 50 states!
I absolutely love the joy of knowing that I’m raising women who will change the world some day. Day in and day out, as moms, we are helping to mold little ones who will grow up to make a difference in the world. I LOVE that.
5. Least favorite? 🙂
Lack of sleep. I go to bed each night first saying “I love my bed” followed shortly after by “I love you babe” (to my hubby of course). Raising kids is tough work, huh?!
Right now I’d have to say my “happy place” is outside on my patio in the early morning hours before my kiddos wake up with a cup of coffee in hand. I’m a morning person and absolutely savor the quiet of the mornings.
Coffee. The darker and richer the better.
8. What inspires you?
Celebration. I absolutely love to celebrate everything. Whether it’s with a juice box or glass of red wine in hand, there truly is beauty in our celebrating the little and big in this life. By choosing to celebrate, we are in turn changed and inspired, able to see the beauty in this life where another person just sees the same old wallpaper.
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