Whew! We finished the Blogging from A to Z Challenge yesterday. We had a few glitches, like when mom went out of town for a few days, but mostly, we did it! Will we do it again next year? I’m not sure. It was very tedious challenging writing six days a week (seven if we did Sunday Selfies with The Cat on My Head) and finding topics that applied to me. I guess that’s why it is called a challenge, but it may be too much for this cat and her old mom. Mom says maybe we need to learn to think outside the box more! I’m not sure why — all kitties know that the best place is INSIDE the box.
Some days, we could make current events fit that day’s letter. Some days, 
we really had to reach to come up with something. What I didn’t like is that it kept me from posting about some current events because we couldn’t figure out a way to make it apply, like the lovely Easter card I got from my friend Billy, the Time Travel Cat. There’s that box again!
Our main reason for doing the challenge was just to see if we could do it, but another reason was to get new readers. I don’t think that happened. We had a couple of new visitors who commented but our readership did not go up noticeably. And I can’t blame anyone or anything for that. There were, in the end, 1516 participants, and we didn’t visit many of them either. Mom said something about not enough time. I think mom needs some time management courses. What’s that mom? You’ve been to many of them? So, what’s the deal then?
Now, I don’t want you to get the idea that we didn’t have fun with this. Here are some of our favorite posts from the A to Z Challenge:
There is something on this floor that smells so intriguing!
- I got to tell you about the beautiful collar and corsage I won from Lola at Lola the Rescued Cat.
- We know all kitties have amazing eyes, but we think Echo’s are especially gorgeous.
- I posed the question, Is this the New Normal?
- I loved telling you Ocean’s Story.
- I told you how I helped mom with the foster kittens when she used to volunteer with a rescue.
- We posted mom’s pawsome instructions on how to make my raw food diet.
- I told you the story of my broken leg and tail and showed you the x-rays.
- We showed you some funny photos of all of us yawning.
I hope you enjoyed some of these posts. We sure appreciate you taking the time to read them and comment. We will now be back to our regular routine, or so we hope. We usually post Friday through Monday and on Wednesday. Mom is going to try to get back to writing on her other blogs on Tuesday and Thursday. I’ll let you know if that happens!
Have a great day filled with things from anipals to zoomies!
Christy Paws
ConCATs! we finished the A-Z Challenge too, and so understand your ‘challenging’ comment – maybe if I didn’t work full-time or have any other commitments.
That is amazing work – congrats. It takes a lot of hard work to complete that challenge and you did it wonderfully. What’s really cool about it is seeing all the different sorts of posts that come out – sometimes having to narrow something down breeds some awesome creative ideas.
Thank you! And thanks for stopping by!
Good job! That’s super impressive that you were able to post 6 days in a row. I have a hard enough time keeping up with 2 times a week. Thanks for sharing! 🙂
Great job with the challenge! I would love it if you would link up to Happy Caturday at Sidewalk Shoes!
Great job! Congrats on making through it! 🙂
Thanks! and thanks for stopping by.
We are behind with reading all of your post.
Thanks for mentioning me.
Kisses & purs,
Billy The Time Cat
I know what you mean! Keeping up with all our friends is not an easy task!
We appreciated all of your posts but then again we normally do. A – Z would be quite the challenge and we must salute you as we didn’t attempt it.
(((Shoko and Kali)))
Yeah, that’s the thing. To get new, regular readers, it’s best to visit others’ blogs and comment regularly, too. That’s the best way I’ve found to get new regular readers. 🙂
Congrats on finishing the a-z challenge! I know it is a lot of work.
Yep! We do that every day. We try to add someone new every week or so.
Congrats on finishing! I enjoyed it even though I didn’t get more than 2 new readers. I did find some new blogs that I didn’t know about 🙂
Well done! We read quite few and learned many new things about you. We enjoyed reading Ocean’s story. Such a cutie!
the critters in the cottage xo
Congrats! That was a challenging challenge and you did great!
Yeah Christy, same here and we didn’t see much differences eevew. But it wuz fun fur a while. And we did enjoy weadin’ a lot of yous postys. But we always enjoy weadin’ ’bout ya’ and seein’ how y’all be duin’.
Luv ya’
Dezi and Lexi
YAY! Concatulations! and WHEWWWW! Our 2 faves were Ocean’s story and the raw diet!
ConCatulations!! We didn’t even start!! I think that as there are so many cat bloggers now, it would be impossible to go and visit everyone everyday …. totally!! We sometimes read and don’t comment, but we like to talk to our friends on a regular basis xox
Concatulations ! You did it ! That’s a great an accomplishment ! Purrs
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Congratulations on completing that challenge! We learned a lot from you and admire your persistence!
That is quite an accomplishment, finishing that challenge! We didn’t do it, for all the reasons you mentioned. BUT my human and I are considering doing NaNoWriMo in November (where you have to punch out a 50,000 novel in a month) – I’d post snippets of the work regularly on the blog. We’ll see…
Oh, wow. Mom has read about that. That sounds really ambitious!
Mes readed those posts and most excellent ob at completing the A-Z challenge!
Kisses
Nellie
Concatulations, friends! That is an amazing achievement 🙂
Well done i say sweetie…it takes a super amount of time to post and read blogs so i would not be too hard on Mum..we don;t do them because i have two blogs and to much work here at home..time escapes..it’s nearly 2am here now and i should be in bed hahaaah 🙂 hugs Fozziemum xxxx
I think I saw every one of them and you did a pawesome job!!!! Admire your dedication!
Thanks so much! I appreciate you reading them!
Concatulations on the A to Z challenge completion Christy! Mom didn’t even start me on it because she knew she’d forget to do a letter somewhere along the way. YAY FOR YOU!!!!!!
Hugs, Sammy