this here blog

I never thought I would blog. Ever. Eva.

Funny enough, I even use to be one of those people who was like: How does she have the time to blog everyday? I mean seriously, I can barely live my life, let alone pen it.

But now all things contradictory, of course... I pen it (or well type it). And I if I could, I would sit and write everyday. Thus, coming to understand how if you pen it, you really CAN still live it.

Blogging for me has become a HUGE cathartic outlet. It somehow has helped me to be a better person  (how, I don't know, but it has). It's so much fun to "feel connected" to the world at large and allow my friends and family to take a peek at my musings and our daily life through stories and pictures.

I have always loved the writing process (did I just say writing process?), thus, majoring in English writing in college and Theology (I have to put my double status out there), but after having kiddos, I stopped and if I did manage to write a word down it was a-spur-the-moment-thingy, usually after a glass or couple glasses of wine and was then quickly put the way side. blah blah blah.

One of the things I find super amusing about blogging is that I really do feel that I am best friends with different bloggers *ahem* Grace. And well, we are best friends! Right?? As you are with your other 8000+ followers. Or Jen, who recently moved to Naples and is best friends with Martha, and now through her blog I feel like we are super close. And we are super tight now, right??

Blogging has been just plain fun. Recording the happenings of our daily life, so that we never forget "these good or not so good ol' days". My mind and thoughts, no matter how el lamo, now have some sort of outlet. And my brain is being used, as well as spell check, so that I don't sound like some stupid blonde, which pretty please just let me think that I don't on this here platform. I also feel like blogging  has made me go beyond myself. And though it may sound odd, it helps me to be a better witness for Christ, because the scattered thoughts during my days in the midst of mostly baby talk are actually  getting put into sentence and paragraph form.

If anyone knows me, you know that I usually don't remember your birthday or anniversary and mountains are moved, literally, when I pick up the phone, which even then there are about a million interruptions from my kids. But somehow writing (via this site) just works for me.

So, what I am trying to say is for all you out there that read my words, thank you, I truly feel like I am talking to you and really do love sharing with you.

I have come a long way from that "I am never blogging" person. Even Isaiah said to me the other night, are you talking about your blog again? Haha! I don't think he even knows what the word blog means, but he sure knows that I enjoy it!

Had to include a pic, in case you just scrolled down past ALL my words.