The A to Z blogging challenge - my reflections

A big thank you to all of the hosts of this challenge: 


Arlee Bird's Tossing It Out
Jeffrey Beesler's World of the Scribe
Alex J. Cavanaugh Alex J. Cavanaugh
Jen Daiker's Unedited 
Candace Ganger's The Misadventures in Candyland
Karen J Gowen at Coming Down the Mountain Talli Roland
Stephen Tremp's Breakthrough Blogs 


and also to Elizabeth Mueller for the badge she made for participants in the challenge. It is so gorgeous! 

I enjoyed participating in the challenge. It was great to have some extra visitors to my blog and I enjoyed visiting other blogs. My approach to the challenge changed halfway through. I started off making an alphabet card each day. I did enjoy doing that but after a while it started to feel a bit cumbersome. I pushed myself to keep going for a while but then decided to change my approach. I then chose words for each letter and wrote about them for the rest of the challenge, like many others did. I think too I really wanted to write a bit more each day after visiting other blogs and reading all the different posts. 


I missed a few days and combined them with later days but I made it to the end! 
What I particularly liked about the challenge was visiting other blogs and seeing the different approaches to the challenge. I haven't had as much time to do this as I would like so I'm going to keep visiting in May. I have come across a few blogs that I will definitely keep following. I really liked how some people had a theme such as books, recipes, education ideas, movies, songs, etc as well as the letters A to Z. Well, I have almost a year now to contemplate my own approach for next year. And in the meantime I may finish off those alphabet cards at a more leisurely pace.