Posts tagged Blogging
Let’s Face It…
Feb 3rd
…post activity on this here blog has been sluggish, to say the least, these past few months. Am I sorry? No, not really. This blog is my creative outlet and I don’t have any schedule, per se, for posting on it. That’s the best part about it.
Remember when you were in high school or college and you were given a writing assignment with a particular due date? Wasn’t that the worst!? Even if you loved writing or it just came easy to you, having someone give you a topic to write on and then tell you when it was due was just plain hell. At least it was for me. I’m most creative and wordy when it’s not forced. Do I enjoy writing? Yes. Does it come easy to me? Most of the time. Except when I try to force myself to sit down and blog.
As many of you readers know, since most of you are busy moms too, carving out time in the day for yourself is just plain hard. Ever try to do something you wanted to do spur of the moment with two kids hanging off your legs? Yeah, impossible. So when I’m going through my daily grind and an idea strikes me that I think would make a good blog post, I can’t just stop what I’m doing and run over to my computer. I’ve got sticky hands to clean, dishes to wash and laundry to fold. So I take those ideas and file them into my brain {or jot them down on a sheet of paper so I don’t forget} and hope that when I have time, the ideas will flow. But that’s simply not always the case. I find myself sitting at my computer quite often with a post window open and a page full of blog ideas by my side and noting will come to me. I’m trying to force myself to type something out and it just doesn’t work.
Am I giving up on this blog? No way! I love writing and sharing stories. I love the people I’ve met through blogging and I love the creative outlet. So when I have time, and the mood is right, and the creative juices are flowing you can bet that I’ll be blogging. But I’m not going to force myself to stick to a schedule because then this will all just turn into a chore and who likes doing chores? Not me! 
If you’re still following my blog, thanks for sticking with me. I truly appreciate your readership and hope to have many more great posts to share with you.
Keeping up is hard to do.
Jun 8th
I guess it’s my own fault for setting myself up. When I started to get into blogging seriously, I was posting daily. I set aside time each morning or each night and blogged. That was at a time when things were pretty uneventful in our lives. We were grounded, the girls were both sleeping through the night, the chores were under control, things were easy peasy (ha!). Well then we went ahead and moved.
Fast forward to now. The days fill up so quickly. The chores have increased (bigger house + yard = more chores). We’re in the middle (well more near the end) of a renovation project. Nora is cutting her one year molars and has an awful diaper rash which means she’s not sleeping as soundly these days. So between contractors arriving at the house bright an early at 8am and Scott and I doing some of the remodel (read: painting) ourselves at night, time for blogging has dwindled severely.
But you know what? It’s ok. I blog because I enjoy it. So if I make myself feel like it’s a chore, then what’s the point? If I don’t get to it one day (or week), no biggie. I have bigger fish to fry at times. It doesn’t mean that I don’t want you checking in to see what’s new, but I do apologize if things get stale. I’m happy to have acquired the readership that I have and I hope you don’t all leave me but keeping up is hard to do!
So I’ll be around when I can. Hopefully not sporadically.. (name that movie!)
