Happy Thanksgiving! As I think back through this year and everything that I am grateful for, I have quite a list. It mostly sounds cliche so I feel silly listing them out. I will say that I am grateful for my life especially for the people in it. It's been a tough year and yet somehow I made it through.
For probably the past 9 years, I've been blogging, publicly. When Uncas set up my first blog, he did it so I could post pictures and he admitted later on, that he didn't think I would continue with it for very long. Well, this is my 3rd personal blog (4th, if you count my baking one). It's been fun, an outlet, a way to keep family and friends from out of town up-to-date, and a place where I've been able to document the lives of our children. I've taken a break from time to time, but for the most part I've really tried to keep it up. I'm really grateful for the dedication - especially during Edith's first year and I was in such a daze from lack of sleep and trying to raise two little kids. It was a huge struggle and I barely remember anything from that year.
Over the past few months, I've really struggled to even want to sit down and blog. I feel like it's this burden and I don't want to continue feeling guilty because I haven't updated, which is how I have been feeling lately. With everything else going on this year - the last thing I need is to worry about updating my blog. I talked it over with Uncas and decided that maybe it's time to stop for good. However, the thing that I will miss the most is not having a record of what we have been doing as a family. I don't scrapbook and have no desire to start. I think we'll probably start a family journal or something, and we have no plans to make it public.
Because of my very sporadic posting this year, I'm not even sure I have anymore readers. But for anyone who cares what's really going on with us, please find me on Facebook, if you haven't already. I tend to post lots of pictures of the kids - usually when they are doing something completely and silly!
I'm not sure that I'm completely done with public blogging forever. I've enjoyed the baking blog and I still think that one day I'll go back to something with cooking and baking. But for now, thanks for reading and for the comments through the years!
