Getting Started Again...

Before I do get started, let me just say, yes, I know I haven't blogged in almost four weeks. I was most certainly reminded of this during Thanksgiving. And I also realize that most of you aren't even still reading because you have stopped checking in to see if there are any new posts up. (I know some of you are "followers" and can just check your "dashboard," but some of my former readers were friends and family who just drop by every now and then.) But I digress...

What was I saying? Oh yes. Getting started. I seem to have forgotten how to do that. How to think of an idea and then write about it. You see, the reason that I haven't been around is that I spent the last month doing proofs #6,7,8,9,10, &11 on the church history book. (OK, so I don't actually know how many times I proofed the daggone thing, but it feels like twice that many.) And by the time we sent it to the printer last week, I couldn't stand the sight of my laptop. I was interested in what was going on with all of my favorite blogs, but I couldn't bear to stare at the screen for One. More. Second! So I turned it off. Admittedly, I occasionally checked my email, but I didn't read a blog or write a word or even look at the pics of my kids that I was sent on a CD (sorry, TD).

I broke my computer fast on Sunday, deciding that I hated Wally World and malls and Black Friday worse than I hated my computer. So, with Cyber Monday approaching, I shopped my heart out. Within 24 hours I had most of the kids' presents, along with several parents and teachers crossed off the list. And I didn't have to leave my house or push a cart full of kids playing cheese touch through crowded stores, which was totally awesome.

And I decided if I could cyber-shop, I could read blogs. And then I decided that if I could read blogs, I could start writing again. If only I could come up with something to write about. Cause let me tell you, a month ago, I had about a half dozen things I wanted to write about, but I don't remember what they were. And when you don't do something very often, you forget how to do it. Or at least that is how it worked with me. And now the well is dried up. Yep. Dry.

Today I decided that if I didn't get started again, I would become one of those blogs that people stumble onto and the blogger hasn't posted since like, 2006 or something, and you roll your eyes and move on. Which disgusted me.

But the main motivation was that this is my one creative outlet. I may have started writing so that Jacob and Alison could see pictures of my kids and our trip to China, but now I write because I enjoy it.

So I am getting started again. I don't know what kind of stuff I will write about, but I am going to go back to my goal of posting at least once a week, preferably twice (you people who blog daily make me roll my eyes, too - but in jealousy, not disgust). We will see how that works out.

I know there isn't much substance to this post, but I gotta start somewhere.