Boys will be Joys

Hey, y’all! I’m blogging again.

I’m not really sure why I stopped blogging.

I think it was truly just an issue of self-confidence.

As I looked back at my blog today, I realized the following:

1. I was struggling. We moved to a new place, we knew very few people, and my self-confidence bottomed out. At the time, I really felt like I had no transferrable skills and I was contributing little to our family and society as a whole. Since then, God has given me some pretty great opportunites to regain my self-confidence and help others in the process.
2. I rather enjoy reading my own writing. It helps that I forgot about the blog all together for a few years and my writings were all new to me again. I think thoughts of insecurity and unworthiness made me stop writing, becuase I thought I lacked the skill to keep it up. I’m realizing that’s a theme in my life that I need to work on… and that I’m really not that bad at writing.
3. I still have a lot to share. A lot has happened since I quit blogging. My family has grown and changed. I have an amazing career that I love, and I still have a crazy family that inspires great “material” all the time. (Plus, we have a dog that is just as strange as the rest of my crew).

I can’t wait to share more later…