Just some newsy update stuff. When I was gone for a week I did a lot of thinking about the blogging aspect here. I greatly enjoy it, but life has been very hectic. When I had a chance to stop everything and get away for a week I did not even take my laptop (which is a biggie for me). I thought about where my full energies should be focused. I don’t want to give up blogging, and I don’t plan to, but I plan on scaling back a lot.
I will be popping in to let you know when I have a new Book Buzz article up. This summer is going to be big, I have some awesome interviews (like the one I have with Amy Wallace in this months edition of CWO). Next month is another interview you will NOT want to miss if you have children, it is one of the more important interviews I feel I have done.
I am still currently writing for Laced With Grace at a minimum once a month. I greatly enjoy the ladies there and what the site has to offer.
I have three boys going in three different directions. School is out in a month, and to be honest summer is a CRAZY time in my household. Besides soccer and basketball, we have now added high school football conditioning (basketball ends very soon, so the basketball and football are just overlapping for a week or so). But all of the above plus upcoming summer camps, my sister having her baby, Laced With Grace, Book Buzz, laundry, cooking, cleaning etc… is where my focus will be for awhile.
During your summer months be sure to visit my book review section (located uder the tab on top) for some suggestions. On the 15th, I will have another awesome book suggestion, and a chance to win some stuff. But until then…I will still be around reading your blog, feel free to email me or use my contact form above to say “hi” or let me know anything I can pray for.
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Life with a family does indeed become overwhelming doesn’t it….I am glad you are taking care of you! We’re in spring football conditioning and baseball too my my my is all I have to say everytime one of them brings home a new calendar schedule….our dance card is full about now with graduation for son1 too!
hugs hugs hugs
Ya know, I was just talking to a friend of mine the other day about how much more I’d get done around the house and with my kids if I didn’t have internet. I spend a lot of time, more than I’d like to, glued to my monitor….lurking blogs, finding recipes, reading news…and meanwhile I have kiddos growing more and more everyday. I don’t think I spend enough time with them or on my house each day as I should, and I have been feeling very convicted.
Each day I wake up and think, okay, today will be the day that I only go on the computer for an hour.
But then once I realize that I’ve been on it for 3, I think okay, I’ll start tomorrow instead.
I think I do that a lot with my walk too…okay I’ll be really good and do devotions today. And then you get caught up in your day and forget and then you’re like..oh well..guess I’ll do it tomorrow.
Anyway, just wanted you to know, that if I didn’t have my internet for a week, I’d probably totally feel exactly how you do, since I am already almost there.
And wow, did I just totally ramble.
Hi Laurel,
I think I wrote this exact same post last week! I love the blogging too, but it has occupied far too large a portion of my time in the past couple of years. I find I just can’t do the important things well and do that much blogging. I am cuttting back quite a bit too.
My prayers are with you. You are doing a wonderful job at the things the Lord has given you to do for this season. Blessings to you sweet girl.
Bravo, Laurel! And I mean that with the utmost sincereity. I am relatively new to the world of blogging and in the short time I’ve pursued such an endeavor, I’ve thought more than once of stopping or at the very least, cutting way, way back. I’m so glad to have met you through this medium and will check in from time to time. I celebrate your resolve to move with your Lord!!Okay then, scoot and enjoy your wonderful life!
Do what you have to do. Some spaces of time are like that.
You gotta do what you gotta do. Bless you through this busy time!
i think most of us can understand this! no worries!! we’re around and hey taking a break is good!
I think it’s the long time bloggers who are trying to find their balance with life and blogging. When we first started, it was all fun and new, making new friends and keeping an onling journal of sorts for posterity, memories, validation… different reasons for different bloggers. Now, we’re finding that blogging can take up too much of our lives if we let it. So go, have fun and enjoy life as you’re supposed to enjoy it - by living it. Just make sure that we get to hear about it occasionally because you know that we love you girl!
I completely understand Laurel! With summer fast approaching my family of 3 boys, I foresee the same future for me!