I used to love this blog. It was my happy place. It was a place to post the daily goings on in the Fortenberry Family Four. It was a place to share the silly fun that happened daily in our house. Sometimes I wrote on my lunch hour. Sometimes I wrote after the kids went to bed. Regardless of when I wrote, there was a serious high that went with it. No one ever commented on a post. Instead, they would email or call me and tell me how much they enjoyed something I wrote. That made me feel really good.
Slowly, adversity set in at the Fortenberry Four house. This blog became more of a place to simply track special events. The fun stories were gone. And, finally, it wasn't even a place to track special events. I couldn't bear to look at my sweet blog. It made me sad to think of our once happy home. It made me sad to think about my once happy blog.
A couple of weeks ago, I started to think about my blog again. I caught myself taking pictures that I could use for my blog. Still not so sure about the blog, I decided to start slow, and started posting on Facebook again.
Over the weekend, I read Heavean is Here by Stephanie Nielson. She told the story of writing on her blog after enduring horrific burns and lying in a coma for months. If she can start writing after that, then I can reclaim my blog, too. I became even more determined to start writing again.
I still don't know what the content of my blog will be. I just know that I want my blog to be my happy place.
