How Wining Wife® Got It’s Start

It’s close to anniversary time, again. My husband and I just celebrated our 8th wedding anniversary in May – in probably the weirdest way possible considering current events. That’s okay though. It also means that it’s been about eight years since I shifted this blog from being “Not Quite Ally McBeal” – a blog where I chronicled the burgeoning interest I had in possibly attending law school. Well, it’s been 10 years since I started that, and eight since I rolled it into Wining Wife®, and 5 since the trademark for Wining Wife® was registered.

I got the whole idea for the transition from Not Quite Ally McBeal to Wining Wife after my husband and I went on a winery tour and had a lot of fun making notes about the various wines we’d tasted. In fact, we’d amassed a stash of wine tasting notes from our various tastings at a couple of wine bars and cellars in Northern California, and I wanted to do something with the notes from that. I wound up marrying the idea of chronicling my life in a more informal way than I was able to on my professional services blog with reviews of wines.

Then, I got pregnant in the first half of 2013. Because I wasn’t drinking wine, I needed to figure out what to do with the blog. Hence I started reviewing other products – lots of books, sewing patterns, etc. And the blog became more of a lifestyle blog. Since then, I’ve made a lot of changes, and most recently, I had a long hiatus due to illness. I’m ready to get back to it, though, and I hope you will continue to show up and read along with my adventures (and misadventures).

Since the very first post on this blog, which was written when it was called “Not Quite Ally McBeal” to now, a lot of things have changed. I got married. We moved from California to Kansas. We had not one, not two, but three more kids. I finished a 12k. And yeah, I managed to come down with this stupid virus which is wreaking havoc on a global scale.

I hope to continue to bring you snippets of our life, recipes, parenting and relationship tips, wine reviews, fashion round-ups, and more in the coming years. I enjoy this blog and the community that’s stuck around for it. There’s a saying: The perfect is the enemy of the good. I can really relate to that right now. I tend to overthink things and instead of just getting things written, I wait until I think it’s going to be perfect.