During the past week or so that I've been out on Christmas break, I've started a list of New Year's resolutions in my head. . . and one of those resolutions is to blog more regularly. Obviously, the fact that I last updated this one over three years ago indicates that keeping this resolution will be pretty easy, but my goal is to update it at least three times a week. I need an outlet for all of the "stuff" running around in my mind, and I probably should pour it somewhere besides my ridiculously long Facebook statuses, right?
Man, has my life changed since I last updated this in October, 2008. . . aka two kids ago. If you had told me on that October day that by the time I next updated, I would have two children (and that this would mean not that I'd found them in a paper sack or something but had actually been pregnant twice and had two babies), I would have thought you had completely lost it. It wouldn't have surprised me that it would have taken me long enough TO have had two babies before I'd update the blog again, but my 43 year-old self had no doubt that my baby ship had sailed. But have them I did, and my view of my world and myself are completely different now than they were three years ago. Needless to say, I'll probably write A LOT about Price and Mariah and the joy that they've brought into my life - and the perpetual pulling apart that I feel as I try to juggle teacher work and coach work and motherhood and wifehood (no, I'm not listing these in order of importance) and do each job with a modicum of success - but all that "stuff" in my mind covers lots of different topics. I will do my best not to scare anyone who actually reads this by being too off the wall, but I make no promises.
OK, I'm going to keep this short (for me, this is short) and wrap up a partial day spent at LCHS and go home to get ready to go with two of my friends from high school to the visitation for another classmate's father. People can say all kinds of negative things about social networking. . . however, if it weren't for Facebook, I don't know how many of us would know that Mr. Rhodes had passed away, and it's even less likely that LeGaye, Laura, and I could have connected so quickly to go together. There's much to be said for something that connects (or reconnects) friends of over 30 years standing, I think.
Until later. . . and hopefully "later" won't be some time in 2015! :-)
Man, has my life changed since I last updated this in October, 2008. . . aka two kids ago. If you had told me on that October day that by the time I next updated, I would have two children (and that this would mean not that I'd found them in a paper sack or something but had actually been pregnant twice and had two babies), I would have thought you had completely lost it. It wouldn't have surprised me that it would have taken me long enough TO have had two babies before I'd update the blog again, but my 43 year-old self had no doubt that my baby ship had sailed. But have them I did, and my view of my world and myself are completely different now than they were three years ago. Needless to say, I'll probably write A LOT about Price and Mariah and the joy that they've brought into my life - and the perpetual pulling apart that I feel as I try to juggle teacher work and coach work and motherhood and wifehood (no, I'm not listing these in order of importance) and do each job with a modicum of success - but all that "stuff" in my mind covers lots of different topics. I will do my best not to scare anyone who actually reads this by being too off the wall, but I make no promises.
OK, I'm going to keep this short (for me, this is short) and wrap up a partial day spent at LCHS and go home to get ready to go with two of my friends from high school to the visitation for another classmate's father. People can say all kinds of negative things about social networking. . . however, if it weren't for Facebook, I don't know how many of us would know that Mr. Rhodes had passed away, and it's even less likely that LeGaye, Laura, and I could have connected so quickly to go together. There's much to be said for something that connects (or reconnects) friends of over 30 years standing, I think.
Until later. . . and hopefully "later" won't be some time in 2015! :-)
