Hey there! I hope everyone had a great weekend. I am coming off a whirlwind of a trip to see my family. I got in time at my parents', my grandma's, and my brother and sister in law's. Again, a whirlwind for sure, but oh so great to see everyone.
You may have noticed that things have been super quiet over here, with a random blog post thrown in there. Going into the start of the year, I was looking to get back to blogging consistently. And that lasted a good month...but then started to fall off as we got further into February.
As I am sure I have mentioned way too often over the past year or so (and probably before that, too), work has been BUSY. I am very appreciative of my job, and enjoy the work, but it's demanded more and more of my mental capacity and bandwidth (to throw in some corporate jargon in there!). I know part of feeling that is due to the pandemic, but there is also a part that is due to the natural growth and changes one experiences in their career.
It's gotten to the point with blogging, where opening my personal computer to work on a post is one of the last things I want to do after being on my work computer all day. Blogging has always been a hobby I enjoyed, but right now it feels more like a 'have to do' on my list, rather than a 'want to do' for enjoyment/a creative outlet. The fact that it feels like a chore, even with limiting my posting days, has made me think hard on whether or not it is something I want to continue doing.
At this point, I am not quite ready to say goodbye. It's hard to completely be done after blogging for so long - almost 6 years! But, I don't know exactly what things will look like going forward. I may continue to take 'time off', I may pop in here and there as the 'want to' feeling hits, or I may realize that I do want to be 'done'. Or heck, I may miss it way too much and come back full force. I think it's one of those time will tell things. Whatever happens, though, I will forever be grateful for blogging. I have made some of the best friends, and have learned so much - both from blogging myself and reading other blogs.
It kind of bothers me not having a good plan in place, which is one of the reasons I have dragged my feet in getting this post out there, but even with things being up in the air I wanted to provide at least a bit of an update on the changes you've seen and will continue to see around here.
With that, I will close out this post. If you've made it to the end of my rambling, thanks for sticking it out! Hope you have a wonderful day!