A to Z Challenge Reflection Post- MEGA POST

  SO as many of you know I have been posting posts for 30 days in order from A to Z, hence the name. It was not my idea but Arlee Bird from tossingitout.blogspot.com It was an interesting idea. One that I jumped at the challenge. What attracted me to this challenge? I am a new blogger. I have only been blogging since December 2009 and I have so much to learn about style, rules and getting people to become followers. I thought it would be a fun challenge. I was not intimidated by it until I saw some of the post from senior bloggers, and then I had a little worry. I also was hoping it would increase my traffic to my blog.  One of the people who joined Arlee's challenge said she could not do the posts in A-Z order but she would do all the letters just out of order and she called it an alphabet soup blog, very clever.
  Another blogger I met along this challenge was Marjorie from everythingemerald.blogspot.com I was reading one of her posts for the letter j, she did the word Justification and I began reading a post about a women ( i assumed her) that was justifying her spending of money on a few earrings for herself. It turns out it was not her it was a character piece. She is a writer, book writer and writes character pieces. I loved it and was hooked. It also inspired me to do a character piece for the letter B, beware and Betrayal.
  Did I want to quit? not once, maybe because I was a full time pre-k teacher and I had quit my job suddenly to home school my son one month ago and needed to stick with something, or maybe because I was really enjoying myself, I had all the letters of the alphabet in a binder and had put possible topics next to the corresponding letters to do a bit of organizing of my thoughts.I have adult a.d.d. and it helped me to organize my topics, so I was not writing off the cuff.  I found myself being amazed at the creative writing posts. One blogger named Ruby a older women who calls her self the blabbin grammyrubyndub.blogspot.com wrote an interesting piece for letter U. She took a picture of a tool, and wrote Unusual tool- the post was all about this tool which her mother had used as part of her job in a hosiery mill. I really found it informational.
  My greatest contribution?? well~ that one is hard. My favorite post of mine was my P was for Pollination post, I wrote about bees, honey and pollination. I felt very comfortable about writing about this subject and found some great information while researching this topic. 
  I did meet some new friends along this journey. Alex. J. Cavanaugh who was very good at comments. I read Porch pondering by Rae and she said it the best," the A - Z challenge inspired and united us. I feel like I found a new friend in ellasedge.blogspot.com her posts were filled with childhood memories and vivid descriptions of things I also remembered.  I also enjoyed her photographs and she inspired me to do a challenge about different colorful clotheslines in the world and there photos.  This challenge starts in a week if you are interested come back to visit. I loved Ella's images, both visually and cerebral.  I also found a friend in Lisa who does the blog entitled Bombastic Bandicoot at htttp://arrogantrat.blogspot.com she always made me laugh with her pictures of her pets.
 So after this challenge can I say what kind of blogger I am ?? I am still a bit unsure about this. I love words and books but how does that help me know what kind of blogger I am. I love to be a follower in the swap and challenge department, but I am trying to find my own way in the original department.  As long as people will like to read and follow then I will continue to write.
  A big thank you to Arlee for all the hard work, commenting and the challenge award.  So fingers to keyboard, ideas to post, I am a blogger who likes to tell you about my latest passion...