The world has combined to stop me from blogging. But don't worry, I'm picking up the torch again. I've missed so many wonderful things in the last year. I've got hundreds, maybe thousands of pictures with stories to go along, that haven't been chronicled at all. I've failed!
I'd like to make a list of obstacles that I'm overcoming now so that the blog can live on:
1. Kids. Yes, they are my reason for blogging, but--and this may come as a surprise--they also take a lot of my time.
2. Hormones. I have to be in the right mood to write. If I write when the inspiration isn't there, it comes out sounding cross, negative, snarky and uninspiring. If you look through, you'll see a post like that every now and then :) Much of 2012, I was battling some hormonal imbalance that caused spikes in whatever hormones make me mean or depressed, and it was happening more intensely and twice as often as it ought to. Once I had to leave church because I COULD NOT smile. Spencer politely suggested I go home. I went home and ate chocolate and watched General Conference on my DVR from my bed, and the whole world was better off that way. Anyway, most of last year I was in this uninspired mood.
3. That hormonal imbalance was miraculously cured! By a pregnancy! Which meant that the remainder of 2012, I was lying on the couch trying not to vomit and having only the energy--physical and mental and emotional--for the absolute necessities.
4. My computer got knelt upon. It was my fault. For Christmas we went to Chicago and I left my laptop in the back pocket of a seat, a seat that was folded down for access to the back seat. Caitlin innocently knelt on the seat as she climbed out of the van and CRACK! the screen is all messed up. I tried to keep using it, but it's pretty completely useless. So all my pictures are waiting to be put on Spencer's comp.
5. I got a new camera! yay! But that also has been delaying my blogging as I'm still working on how to download them, etc.
Okay, there are all the reasons. I list them only to remind myself what this time was all about. What was going on behind the sad lack of posting.
Just last week I made the first year of my blog into a book, and I'm anxiously awaiting it in the mail. It was so rewarding to put that book together and I am now very, very grateful that through the years I've kept this blog. What would I do without those written accounts of what our life was like? And the ride isn't over yet, and so I continue.
On to the blog-future!
2 comments:
I'm glad you're got your groove back. Sorry you had to deal with the hormone business - was it related to Lyme? Or do you know?
Eva, that's a good question, I don't know. The appt I scheduled to talk to the doc about it was the day I found out I was pregnant. I was suspecting a fibroid or cyst but nothing of that sort ever showed.
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