My Blogging Silence

As most of you know, I started blogging regularly again early this spring. I un-earthed my old "A Journey Thru Pictures" blog that I had started in 2012 when my main focus was to use blogging as a way to share my life with family, and maybe some friends, too. (I think it was just my family that read my blog back then, though.) I blogged using a lot of photos of the adventures and trips that I went on, photos of everyday life such as going climbing, snow-boarding, food I made, my great hauls from the "Bountiful Baskets" produce co-op, and just life in general sometimes. One of the things I had been working on was documenting my photos and experience in Australia on the blog. After a few years, though, I started slacking on the blog. I went back to college to get my bachelor's degree and I did not maintain blogging as a high priority. So it was pretty close to silent for a while, although I did manage a random blog post here and there.

After I finished my online degree, I tried to resume the blog and kind of succeeded. For a little while. I think it was mostly blog posts about our new house that we had bought, remodeling it, painting it, discussing ideas for it, and not so much about travel or fun outing experiences. And then we had Little Pumpkin. That in itself seems like a good excuse for blog silence. And then we moved. And I did not do anything on my blog for over a year.

I'm not exactly sure what made me un-earth my old, silent, "A Journey Thru Pictures" blog earlier this year. Maybe I was looking for some purpose to my life. I think a part of it, though, was to start back into it and see if I could take it in a direction in which I could garner a part-time (or