Ramblings From Someone Who Just Needs to Post More Consistently

Hey y'all,

I've been urged to write a blog post -- by the voices within as much as the voices without (your voices). To the fans: thanks for encouraging me in this creative endeavor of mine.

Once again, too much has happened since my last entry here on the blog and I'm having a hard time condensing what I want to say. My mom used to be a blogger when she was raising us 7 and she recently stumbled across her old URL. I still hear from fans of her blog from way back when, and it was more widely read than you would think. However, the majority of posts were hardly longer than a paragraph or two, sometimes including a few pictures (because that was much harder to do then) because that's really all you have time for when you're moving and having a baby every other year and raising and homeschooling seven children single-handedly. Snippets of life.
But reading back over her old blog, it occurred to me that we were so ecstatic to even rediscover those "snippets"; and that a brief, consistent entry was almost better than the long soliloquies that I sometimes fool myself into thinking is desirable.
Longer entries about the deeper, philosophical happenings in my mind as a mother and a wife have their place, no doubt. However, I wish I would just make myself sit down more often even just to type out a paragraph or two, updating my later self on what life was like as a young 20-something raising three kids under the age of four on my funny farm in my small town.

I do have a Facebook (friend me if you haven't) where I sometimes post funny things my kids say, or snapshots of our day-to-day life. But the blog somehow has a more personal touch to it that I long to get back to.

I want to write tributes to seasons that change and things and people that mean the most to me.
I want to write about lessons I'm learning, bad days I am having, and days that turned out pretty great.
I need a space where I can purposely slow down and methodically type out what is actually on my mind.

Did you know my dog of 8 years died suddenly last month?
Did you know that my husband traded in his cool car to get me a new mom car?
Did you know that my local MOPS group approached me about taking on a small leadership role even though I've only been attending (some) meetings for six months?
Did you know that I'm studying joy and learning so many lessons in the process that impact my parenting and my mental health?
Did you know that I planned my expectations for this third baby around having another boy -- and suddenly we found out we are, in fact, having another daughter?

Some of these things you might know if you have friended me on Facebook. Some of them are still pinging around in my mind and they need a place to land -- a place like my blog.

Just ramblings for today. But feel free to drop a comment telling me what you think of the blog, what kinds of things you might like me to post about, maybe even an idea that's pinging around your mind that needs a safe place to land -- tell me about it.