I'm Back

I'm starting again. Daily or almost daily blogging is my goal so be prepared for me to unleash all the randomness of my mind into cyberspace. Don't judge me too harshly for taking a three-month-long break. In that amount of time my beloved grandfather passed away and my sweet brother-in-law got married so lots of travel and sadness and joy. We had meetings (and stress) for planning Josh's kindergarten program and most recently, little Jane broke her leg. I've thought about blogging lots of times but my heart wasn't in it. I started this blog for my grandparents and now I knew my grandpa wouldn't be reading it anymore. At my grandpa's funeral, his sweet pastor, Faith asked me if I was the one who was sending my grandparents all the blog posts from NY. My month-long blogging goal just happened to coincide with the last month of my grandfather's life. I said yes and she thanked me, telling me that all those posts meant a lot to my grandparents. That made me so happy, a little bright spot in the sad haze of mourning. But it also caused a lump the size of Texas to grow in my throat. I shut down and I gave up. But it's time to stop being selfish. My grandma is still reading and she loves all of her grandchildren's blogs. She probably needs them now more than ever. And I think my grandpa would want me to keep going. So I'm going to keep doing this blog for both of them just like I started out to do in the beginning.