I Don't Give Up Easily

It has been a hard few years when it comes to this blog. I really don't want to give up though. So I set myself two goals this year: 1- Get a healthy body/mind, 2- Update the blog and blog books. I'm a little terrified about both of these goals. They feel really ambitious. However, they are somewhat vague/broad intentionally so that I can set specific goals each month and re-evaluate as needed. I tend to get overwhelmed because I tend to set goals that are way beyond accomplish-able when I take into account all of life's many demands. I don't need to get too specific here on the blog as far as the goals go - but it will suffice to say that I'm not giving up!


I wrote the above paragraph back in January. It's April 30th now. But guess what. I really have made good on those promises. Part of my goal to get a healthy body/mind is to take into account life's demands and the phase of life I'm in as I try to accomplish things. This has meant I've really needed to simplify. So - I've used blog2print to create blog books for the years we are missing. It was hard for me to let go of the nicer blog books I can make with mixbook, but they were ultimately more time-consuming. I really want to be spending most of my time with my kids - so sitting on the computer working on layouts for books is really not top priority. I've made them for every year of our blog except 2015 so far. Now I'm working on finishing blog posts for 2015 so that I can finish the final book and print them all. I'm not totally sure at this point whether we will be continuing with the blog or using instagram and chatbooks from then on. What I do know is that even though I believe in simplicity with all my heart, I have a hard time doing so with certain things. But I won't give up.