This summer life has clocked me in the head. Literally. As in,
no matter how hard I think, my brain cannot compute where the time has gone and
how it is not almost OCTOBER. So much for keeping up with my regular Tuesday
blogs! Sigh.
But it’s okay. I’m coming to grips with a few things this
month, and thought maybe I should share them with you.
1.
Sometimes it’s okay to not be able to keep up
with everything you hoped to do. Life is a game of priorities, and sometimes
the people in it get to come ahead of and above other goals or schedules.
2.
There is nothing in the world that will put a
family of six in an emotional tailspin faster than a two year sequence that
involves three big moves (not including my oldest daughter who added one more
to that number) across a distance of 1500 miles. It is physically, emotionally,
and mentally impossible to keep up with anything else—especially artistically,
during this time.
3.
It’s important to live for life’s “ups” in order
to make the “downs” more bearable.
4.
Sometimes even the best intentions just don’t
add up to reality.
5.
Making my personal writing goals that involve
manuscripts have become a much higher priority above blogging.
It’s that number five thing that has kept me from blogging.
See, here’s the thing. I had big plans for this summer. I have books to draft
and blogs to write, and conferences to attend, marketing to keep up on and,
and, and… I’ve discovered that no matter how badly I want to keep up with all
these things, the reality is that I can’t do everything, all the time.
So I let this blog slide a bit, and I don’t feel too bad
about it because I have instead focused on other writing projects that I hope
to see making important progress in the near future.
I very much hope that I am able to get back into a routine
and keep up with blogging again this fall. But if I skip some weeks—if I don’t
keep up the way I always have—I hope you can forgive me. I hope you’ll continue
to come back and read anyway. Because I have come to the conclusion that it is
more important to keep up with writing books than it is to stay consistent with
this blog. (Though I truly do hope I can juggle both!)
Thanks for sticking with me, friends!
Stay tuned next tuesday for a report on the awesomeness that
was the LDStorymakers Midwest Conference!
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