Excuses, excuses.

Hi!  Remember when I had a blog that I wrote in and posted pictures and stuff?

Yeah, me neither.  Even my computer forgot, as I had to Googly myself just to find the blog because it no longer popped up when I started typing in the address.  It's been almost a year since I wrote anything, and for that, I'm sorry.  I have reasons, I promise.*

1) My computer is terrible.
     It is old, slow and missing several keys.  Do you know how often you use the letters A,W,S, and H?  A    
     lot.  We've talked about replacing it, but since we now have two iphones, an ipad, and a kindle fire, we
    don't really need one.  That, and, MacBooks are expensive and we don't want another PC. I was given a
    keyboard for the ipad, but we all know how well technology and I get along, so I haven't figured out how
    to use it yet.**

2) I am busy.
    Somewhere around the last posting I started Mystery Shopping and I've been slowly increasing my shops.
    The time I would normally be blogging is taken up by all the computer work involved with that.  Abby is
    also in school 5 days a week and still does Little Gym and soccer.  Austin is in Little Gym and speech
    therapy. ***  We also have almost-weekly play dates.  Add to that the fact that Abby no longer naps and
    I only get an hour of quiet time a day, and you have a lot going on.

3) My son is exhausting.
    Austin doesn't stop.  Ever.  He is constantly running, jumping, diving, flipping, rolling, and whatever other
    method of motion he can come up with.  I spend a large part of my day running after him and yelling, "No!
    Get down! Freeze!"**** When I do get that hour a day of quiet, I usually do little more than lay on the
    couch and re-caffeinate so I have energy for the afternoon.  By the time the kids go to sleep, I am ready
    to crash myself.

4) I got out of the habit.
    It was Christmas when I stopped, and it's a busy time.  Then Abby's preschool faced eviction and I threw
    everything into finding a way to keep it open through the end of the school year.  By that time it was May
    and I hadn't written in months.  I couldn't figure out how to just jump back in.

5) I have friends.
    That sounds snarky.  Or, perhaps pathetic?  Anyway, let me explain.  I started this blog when I moved to
    Raleigh so I could keep my friends and family updated on the goings-on down here.  At least, that's one
    reason.  The bigger reason was probably to give myself an outlet.  I needed a place to vent and process
    what was going on in my life, and this was it.
    Around the time I stopped writing.I was in a whole new place. I won't get into it all as it's a post in and of
    itself, but I was on a new antidepressant, had just graduated from my year of therapy after my little
    postpartum thing, and I was really happy.  I also had joined a group of mom's from Abby's preschool for
    weekly playdates.  Fast forward to now and these women have become more than Abby's friends' moms.
   Our playdates are more for us than them***** and we have a monthly girl's night out.  So, I didn't need to
   write about what was going on in my life because I was actually talking to people about it.

All that being said, I miss writing.  I didn't think anyone else really thought about this blog-thing, but I've had several people ask me why I stopped.  I've also got two big birthdays coming up and letters to my children that need to be written.  So, here I am.  I'm going to try and make this a more regular thing again******

Stay tuned....
 

*Not good ones mind you, but reasons all the same.  
** This post is brought to you, in part, by one Ms. Jenny Jones.  Thank you!
***More on that to come.
****He doesn't listen, but I yell all the same.
***** I'm just being honest.   
****** Someone please make my husband figure out the ipad/keyboard thing!