**Note - typically, this is a Comment Free Blog. However, given that we are doing a year of Challenges from September 2011 - August 2012 - I really wanted to make it easier for my readers to participate and share. So comments will be turned on for a while on most posts.
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You might have noticed that there is no place to leave comments on this blog. There used to be! But I'm just...{cough}...over it. Here's why:
I have used this blog first as a place to cry on the shoulders of my readers for a long time. About the long adoption wait, then about becoming a new mother, and then about becoming a new mother again. About our journeys around the world. About our children and parenting them. I have grown and changed over these years…and I can see that reflected as I browse sometimes through my archives. But as with all things – I’m entering a season of my life that calls for change. I still write about those same things - being a wife, a mother, and about my kids – but I just didn't want to censor myself any longer.
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You might have noticed that there is no place to leave comments on this blog. There used to be! But I'm just...{cough}...over it. Here's why:
I have used this blog first as a place to cry on the shoulders of my readers for a long time. About the long adoption wait, then about becoming a new mother, and then about becoming a new mother again. About our journeys around the world. About our children and parenting them. I have grown and changed over these years…and I can see that reflected as I browse sometimes through my archives. But as with all things – I’m entering a season of my life that calls for change. I still write about those same things - being a wife, a mother, and about my kids – but I just didn't want to censor myself any longer.
In order to do that I realized I had to let something go…something that is “anti” blogging, if you will. I let go of comments. I think as much as I loved them (like, a lot. like a really lot):
1. I don’t want to need them. And sometimes I do. Sometimes I’m hanging on for your thoughts. And to be honest, sometimes no one has anything to say about something I might have put a lot of effort into. And that hurts. (sensitive, I know...I'm working on it) Sometimes, I’m so worried about what I say that I hold back. Sometimes I’m so concerned about offending, that I withhold what I really “mean” and skirt around it. What a lot of work all of that is! I’d rather just write what’s on my heart, have you read it, and let’s leave it there.
2. I don’t want you to feel obligated to be “nice” or feel you have to be “courteous” and take the trouble to leave a comment when you and I both know we’re too busy most days. I read over a hundred blogs – probably yours! But I simply do not have the time to comment. I love following your lives, but I cannot take the added time to leave words for each of you. It’s too cumbersome with a house to run, a job, and two little ones. And I don’t want you to feel that way about my blog either! For heaven’s sake, I want you to receive. That’s all. I want you to be able to come here, read what I have to say, and move on with your day. I don’t want you to be obligated to me. I want you to be blessed!
3. I don’t want to publish disparaging comments for the whole of my readers to see. I don’t want this blog to be argumentative, and I know that often with spiritual sentiment, things can become heated for those who disagree with each other. If you are my family or my friend – and you were to write a comment that does not line up with my heart – I would still feel obligated to publish it. And I’m not going to do that to myself. I don’t want to. I love you, but this is not the place for that.
4. I’m not gone completely – I love hearing from you! So many times I have been so encouraged by your thoughts and kind words. If you want to contact me or if a post really speaks to your heart or ministers to where you are in your own life, please e-mail me!
Read this blog guilt free! I don't need you to "do" anything but show up. You are not obligated to do much more than sip a cup of coffee and be encouraged...(or laugh with me...cry with me...or even disagree with me)
xoxo
Read this blog guilt free! I don't need you to "do" anything but show up. You are not obligated to do much more than sip a cup of coffee and be encouraged...(or laugh with me...cry with me...or even disagree with me)
xoxo
