My Happy Place

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.