Can I just tell you honestly that keeping up with this blog has been a huge struggle for me? When I do have time to think about it, this is what goes through my head. “Man, it has been way too long since my last post. Maybe I’m just not cut out for this! Maybe I should just call it. I just don’t have the time to dedicate to a blog.” I mean it is understandable. I do have a hectic life.
When a moment does roll around where I do have the time to write something, I’m just so gosh darn tired that I give in to my exhausted mind and body and just collapse on the couch with a bowl of popcorn and turn on some good ol’ television.
(For those of you who know me, I have a real problem….. I love TV. Like….. LOVE. IT. My brain just needs the mindless entertainment sometimes. I probably should be ashamed.. but I’m not. 🙂
It really comes down to this: I’ve decided that I’m really just having a hard time coming up with a topic. I think, “What direction do I want this blog to take? Shouldn’t I have a defined theme like motherhood or marriage or housekeeping? What will people most relate to? What will be entertaining? Oooo… Maybe there is a nice home decor trend I could try out and share with everyone. Then I would just have to make a trip to Home Sense…”
Then I had a thought today, why am I trying so hard to come up with an original or epic idea? Why don’t I just write about plain old life? What is going on in the moment. There are so many things that happen day to day and I’m sure I’m not alone in many of the thoughts and feelings I have as a wife and mother.
The conclusion I came to is this. I want this blog to be a help and encouragement for my children one day when they start out on their own and begin to build their own lives and their own families. I want my kids to be able to look back one day and really know the heart of their young struggling mama – the joys and the “not so joyous” times that I was having in my day to day raising of them and what I have learned about life and love and what anchors my soul through the ups and downs of life. At the same time, my hope is that it will be an encouragment to others along the way as we all do life together.
At the very least, I would like you, the reader, to feel like you are in these life moments with me and I that I can be relatable and honest about what is going on in this crazy life of mine. So.. if you would like to go on this journey with me, I would very much welcome the company!
Disclaimer: There WILL be posts on Home Decor and Parties which I will inevitably do for my children. It can’t all be about my thoughts and feelings. 🙂
Up Too Late Mama 