A message from Mom...

Blogging kind of seems like a waste of time...reading other's blogs seems like a waste of time...I seem to love to waste time. After not blogging since the spring, my cousin sent me a link to a blog from a gal who's blog makes me feel like a horrible, no good, rotten, lazy person. I LOVED it! God blessed me with some quiet time to myself tonight. I have been blessed with a lot of that lately as my belly and heartburn and worry about any and everything have grown over the months. I like to complain about it, but maybe I should view it as a blessing. I'm always wanting time to myself to...just sit and think. So I used about 45 minutes of tonight's blessing to read this girl's blog...and blubber. Yes, it made me feel like a bad parent. Yes, it made me feel ungrateful. Yes, it made me feel lazy and unproductive. Yep, it made me feel like I have the creativity of a brick. But somehow, it made me feel good. I liked how she documented her life with her family, her thoughts about beans and candles (weird) and how she finds God and his lessons for her in unlikely places. And so, I have decided once again that blogging is NOT a waste of time. And maybe even reading blogs from other people that I don't even know or have any connection with is sometimes not a waste of time. I've said it folks (or at least Mom and Dad, who are probably the only 2 people who ever check this)...the blog is back! Should I be using this time of blessing to do something productive (like laundry or organization)...to try harder to get some sleep...to try to catch the "reading bug"...to catch up on some Bible study? YEP! But, I shall blog so I can remember my family and my thoughts and my blessings at this stage of my life. So there!