Back to Blogging...

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WOW! I just looked at my blog for no real reason except boredom, and realized that I have not posted anything since the spring. That is somewhat sad so I decided that a goal of mine is to get back on the blogging bandwagon. I really do enjoy blogging because I have always enjoyed journaling and writing, not writing in the deep, creative, artsy way, but more in the keeping a daily journal or diary kind of way. When I was a teenager I tried to keep a diary but most of the time ended up venting about parent issues, friend drama and teenage useless information that later would end up in the trash because face it, when you're a teenager, moods and ideas change rapidly and what seemed like a good idea one minute usually ended up sounding ridiculous when looked back on later. While I was pregnant I tried journaling in a pregnancy calendar about all the many mood changes, body changes, cute baby ideas, names and nursery decor. I did keep those calendars although when I look back at them I think about all of the crazy things you can come up with when you are on bedrest! ( " I was thinking about naming her that?") I also like to record things in scrapbooks except sometimes I tend to record how I wanted the event to be instead of how it really was.  I write things like "Here we are picking out our pumpkin! Emma and Lydia had a great time looking through all of them to find just the right one!"  instead of " Here are the girls finally getting a pumpkin after fighting for an hour over who was going to get the one they wanted". I keep notes on calendars, notebooks and scrap paper so that I can remember all the cute things the girl's say or do and one day they can look back on these years and see what all we did and how much fun they had even though they won't remember most of it. When I thought about starting a blog it seemed like a great way to record thoughts, feelings and cute stories of the girls. It would be a way for family to keep up with things and for me to have some peaceful time reflecting on my own thoughts and feelings; however, as with most things I take on, I started out with vigor, blogging every couple of days and keeping up with what I wanted to write about next but somewhere along the way, as with most things I start, the newness wore off and life took over. I have been so busy with school, church activities, Daisys, preschool, Lydia, MOPS, etc., ect. that my quiet time has become a few quick minutes of catching up on Bible study homework, updating my status on Facebook and catching up on all that housework I don't do when Lydia is awake. I have decided that it is time for me get back to finding myself again in the midst of this chaos I call "Life down the rabbit hole" and get back to focusing on the things that make me happy and keep me sane ( if it isn't already to late!) So here I go again...