Wow! That was a long time ago! And to think that I made an issue over not having written anything in a month. I guess I out did myself this time!
As you can imagine from my last post, my world is drastically different than it was then. The Chinese were indeed correct. We welcomed our baby boy into the world on May 3, 2013, which, yes, means that we are about to celebrate his 2nd birthday. Two weeks after he was born, my husband had his second knee surgery. He spent over a year either out of work or on “light duty” due to his knee injury. It was a unique time for our family. Although being out of work for that long was hard on him, I’m so thankful that he was able to spend so much time at home during JD’s first year. He was able to share in many milestones that most dads miss, and we wouldn’t trade that for anything. It was a year of many mixed emotions. Happy. Sad. Busy. Bored. Annoyed. Aggravated. Elated. Love. Anger. Helplessness. Patience. Impatience. I could go on and on!
Since then we have been on trips. We have shared time with family. We have laughed. We have cried. We have endured sleepless nights. We have sleep trained a baby. We have watched that baby grow. We have de-pacified a toddler. We have celebrated good times. We have mourned bad times. We have moved. We have said hello and good-bye to friends. We have played in the sun, rain, and snow. We have celebrated our 10th anniversary. We have changed. We have grown.
Before JD was born, we decided that I would quit my job and stay home with him. It just didn’t seem worth it to work so that I could put him in daycare. I’m not in any way knocking any of the working moms. It just didn’t fit us. If I had a career vs a job or had a desire to move up the corporate ladder, we may have thought differently. I didn’t and I don’t. My pay check at the time and the cost of daycare weren’t far enough apart for me to make that sacrifice. Maybe I’ll elaborate more on that in another post.
That may make you think…No job and no blog posts?! What have you been doing?!
Well, for one, when JD was born, we lived in the boondocks and had horrible service for anything technological. As in, for the first time in our married life, we had a land line phone because that was pretty much the only way to get in touch with us. Oh there were the spots where if you leaned one way, held out your leg, and didn’t breathe that you could get some service, but overall, there wasn’t much available. That, teamed up with us deciding to make every financial cut that we could, ended in us relying solely on our phones for Internet service for the last couple of years. I know that may not work for everyone, but it has worked for us. We are, much to the heartache of Verizon, some of the few that still have unlimited data plans so that makes it doable. It’s funny to see what life becomes when your priorities change. Me staying home and raising our son is the number one priority for us right now, and we will make the necessary sacrifices for that to happen.
All that said, plus the reality of having a baby and then a toddler, has made it tough to keep the blog going. Yes, I can type on my phone, but you all know what it is like to type on those things. I can send plenty of texts and even emails, but typing a whole post in that tiny window while making sure that AutoCorrect doesn’t do anything crazy is challenging. I’m not going to lie. I really have tried to do it a couple of times, but I got so frustrated that I gave up. Plus, you think about adding pictures and links and you can forget the whole thing…which is what I did.
I will say that it made me feel a little better to look at the blogs that I use to follow and see that many of them haven’t added posts in a long time either. I guess we all got busy and gave up at pretty much the same time.
So, why now? Well, in truth, I’ve really missed blogging. I’ve missed getting my thoughts in print. And, the opportunity has arisen for me to be able to do it again, so here I am…
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