Blogging is Hard

I used to be a blogger.

I would mentally notate things in my head throughout the day that i wanted to blog about.  I would delight in arranging the words of my story in a pleasing (and hopefully sometimes witty) manner.  I looked forward to blogging every couple of days and sometimes even a couple of times in one day!

Now i don't even recognize that person!

I still want to blog, but there are no words.  It seems exhausting to make a coherent sentence, much less a witty paragraph.  It seems difficult to pick out things to blog about in my new life now.  My creative writing juices just seem to have dried up.

All that is not to say that life is hard or bad or nothing to write about has happened.  Quite on the contrary!  Though our move has come with some inherent challenges and some surprise ones, as a whole i can not complain.  In fact i would say life has been great!  We are making great new friends, we love our new church, we are adjusting to our new schedule and things here have actually stopped seeming so new and strange and now feel, familiar.

My husbands job is going wonderfully!  He loves the people he works with, has an excellent supervisor and seems to handle his split shifts remarkably well!  His schedule allows us a lot more family time and a lot less stress about finances, which always makes everything a bit easier :)  He has found a great love for ice fishing, as we both are, and we are learning what activities we have available to us in our area.  We both drew deer tags this fall, and we both filled them as well, an exciting event for me as it was my first deer!

Gwen just continues to blossom and grow, becoming more talkative, friendly, and still just as girly and dramatic!  She loves to go visiting and have playdates with friends and especially loves reading books, dressing up, playing kitchen, having real tea parties and anything to do with princesses!  She is a Cubby in Awana and is doing remarkably well, since she is 6 months to young to be involved.  But since mommy is the music leader, Gwen gets to go!

I have found fabulous and supportive friends within our church and the local MOPS group.  I love the sense of community and family that we have found here.  Everyone is so friendly and kind and the community as a whole seems to be very conservative in their values and morals, it is so refreshing!

The challenges of moving and adapting in a new state has served to stretch us and grow us and only bring us closer together.  Only to God can i give all of the glory for that.  He has been stretching and growing me in ways i didn't even know i needed!

And all i can say is life is good.  But right now, blogging is hard.

Maybe someday, it will get easier again