Alright, already!

Why can't I commit?! (... to a blog that is.) I started this four days ago and haven't been able to make myself let anyone know that I have entered the blogging world. Confession... I did this once before. I must not let this blog too fade into the shadows. So here goes... welcome to my blog! Please know that I am at a very emotionally vulnerable stage of life right now. Ben and I have been noticing strange ways in which this move has shaken us (but it'll all turn round right, we know). I decided that I'd better start "talking" here more - where people can choose whether or not to listen - before I nip our budding southern relationships through my incessant verbosity.

I looked through the blogs/albums of many of our dearest friends tonight and felt remiss for being so bad at keeping in touch. We know some of the world's most amazing people! It was nice to see y'all (even if it kind of felt like spying since you didn't know I was there - Wymountites and others, I'm watching you ;).

So, as for my blog style... I've seen many different ways of approaching this. Some bloggers keep very introspective/inspiring blogs. Others give snapshots of their lives and thoughts. I'll probably do both (well, at least I'll aspire to inspire). Honestly, I don't know what you'll get here, but I hope you'll feel your time was well spent. If not, or if I offend you, you may later come to find that it was still time well spent. I don't have all of the answers, but unfortunately, I always talk like I do ; ). Maybe as you disagree with me though, you'll come to your own epiphanies.

Charting the Course

Well, this is the spontaneous cap-stone to my chart creating frenzy. In the last two weeks, I have generated a chart/loose schedule for nearly every aspect of our lives. (Is it ok to chart pottying?) I'm so visual that this is my only hope for finding an order that lasts more than three minutes.
I've heard of motherhood-onset ADHD and feel that I suffer (happily) from this phenomena. Each time I put a metaphorical pan on the burner, something draws my attention away and I forget what I was making - until it's smoldering (my husband and brother will laugh knowing that unfortunately, this metaphor isn't purely theoretical). It's hard to finish a sentence let alone a task. I've noticed E. leaving sentences trailing with the word "so...." I was forced to recognize that I am the source of this new development. When did I start doing that?! (Please don't answer.) Anyway, starting things - sentences, projects, tasks, laundry - is fine, but I hope to get more things finished in this phase of life.
Our move has been wonderful for us. A new beginning is exactly what we needed (though we LOVED the old life). As we enter our third decades, it's time to start laying foundations that can abide for more than three years (if we want them to). We're even starting to build on those foundations now too.
Through all of this, I keep longing for a board on which to sound, but have been refusing to blog the "easy" way. But, with yet another phase ending, I find that I still have made no progress on my made-from-scratch/do-it-myself family website. Hence, I am succumbing to the Blogger call. Thanks for the inspiration Lor!
PS Sorry for all of the illustrative talk, I guess I get even more visual after midnight.