Here We Are!

     Do you ever run into an old friend that you lost touch with.  At first you are so excited to see them, your mind flashes back to the very best days that you spent with them.  As they approach, you feel that apprehension because you are embarrassed because you have not seen them in so long?  That is kind of what this blog is.  I am still very much "The Middle Aged Woman Who Lived In A Shoe", we still live in the same shoe, and yet my life is not the same.  I have so much that I want to share and stories that should be told, and yet there is that little pause, that slight apprehension.  What if you don't like me anymore?  What if I don't have anything interesting to say?

     Quite often people ask me why I don't write my blog anymore.  I usually tell them that I no longer had time to write, and that is a partially true statement.  Life with a 17 year old, two almost 14 year olds and a 9 year old is busy.  The truth is that I cycled out of that stage.  What I mean by that, is that my blogs were always about being a "mommy".  I wrote about what I knew.  I wrote about our daily adventures.  If you look at the first picture, they were all so small when I began this little writing adventure.  The truth is that I did not know what to write.  I no longer took those fun little trips with the kids.  We no longer sat down and did crafts.  Preteens are a new frontier.  They value their privacy.  They are not impressed if you write stories about them without their knowledge and strict permission.  I didn't write, because I didn't feel like I had anything interesting to share, and so I stopped. 

     I make no promises that I will be as diligent in this "My Brave New Chapter", I will write as I can, I will not write to write, but rather write when I have something to say.  The truth is that I miss the writing.  I miss talking to you, I miss sharing my life and all of the little peals of wisdom that I have picked up along the way.  Life can get a little crazy around these parts, time is not always generous with me.  

    My big story to share with you is that at the ripe old age of 46 I enrolled in college, but that's another story.  For today I will just tell you that I'm busy in this crazy life of mine, but that I miss you.  I'm glad I bumped into you and the past is the past and I want to renew our friendship.  Thank you for joining me on this "My Brave New Chapter".