One day I was blogging and the next I was not. And the next, and the next, and the next, and then before long it was nearly two years before the next post popped up.
Sure, the blogging urge never went away and I thought about blogging, at least weekly, composing blogs in my head as I rushed through my days. Still seeing life through my bloggie lenses…as life unfolds always thinking about how I would write that in a post.
But between kids getting older and my now or never realization I needed to spend as much time as possible with them before they moved out, and work getting more demanding, and so many outside activities, and dealing with lots of life stuff…the actual time for sitting down to write never happened.
And before I knew it nearly two years of unblogged, undocumented life had flown by.
So here I am, trying to get back, hoping this isn’t an isolated post that I manage to crank out in the midst of all my busy-ness.
And nearly two years later life is so much different. So much has happened.
My son has graduated and has gone off to college. Big adventures for him, pride yet heartbreak for me. I miss him a lot.
My daughter is in high school now, forging her independence fiercely, working at growing up and pushing away much harder than her brother did in a way that is common I guess for most teenage girls.
Hard again for me as I reel from the one-two punch of my two kids stepping out on a ledge of their own at the same time.
And in another huge, life-altering event, in September 2010 we did an experimental 21-day challenge with the PCRM and tried going vegan for a three-week period. That three-day challenge showed so much promise in how we felt that here in March 2010 we are still living a 100% plant-based lifestyle. And feeling great. A healthy lifestyle is now the theme of our lives, not only from the way we eat but extending to the smaller, greener footprint we have and very active lifestyle we have gravitated towards as we now lean towards being a car-lite cycling family. Needless to say in many ways we are feeling and looking great.
And so that is where I am today. A little update to let the world know I am older, but still finding my way to fit and fabulous and even closer than I was when I was last here.
Looking forward to getting back on the path.
2 comments:
I am so glad to see you back, Jewel! I wondered what happened to you. I look forward to hearing more from you!
KATE! So glad to hear from you too! And so fitting...immediately before I wrote the post I paid a visit to your blog and poked around a bit to see how and your family were doing.
You helped inspire me to actually sit down and put something down on "paper" instead of keeping my come back post swirling in my head where it has been for so many months!
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