Why start a blog?

To be completely honest, I have contemplated with the idea for years but never had time juggling our work, home & family’s schedules. And then our world was flipped upside down with COVID quarantine mid-March 2020. My children’s school canceled, our work went fully remote until 2 weeks later when I found myself unemployed.

I spoke with a Life Coach in May 2020 and after discussing my values and passions (link to that post), I was very motivated to finally start one and then two things happened: 1) I was drowning in daily quarantine life and 2) talked myself out of it thinking ‘I don’t want my life to be that public’. Yet, a few months later…..here we are. 

I guess you could say my ah ha moment, the realization that I couldn’t dodge the blog idea any longer, was the first week of July 2020.

Let me preface this story by saying COVID Quarantine has had many ups and downs. There are mostly positive days – we have settled into our new ‘at home’ routine, I am the stay at home mom/cook/neighborhood summer camp counselor while the other working parents are juggling zoom calls. I try to fit in an hour of job searching and submitting resumes during my 2 year old’s nap. However, most days I am too exhausted to break from our routine, some days I have spurts of motivation …while during others I can feel serious anxiety and depression. Something tells me we will look back at Spring/Summer of 2020, the long list of what people had to juggle during the pandemic and how utterly impossible it was to successfully achieve most of it.

Then one particular July night, my mind was racing – more than usual. 11pm. Midnight. 1am… the clock just kept ticking, but my mind wouldn’t stop. The thoughts kept coming and were getting louder. Finally I picked up my phone and posted this… mostly just to get it out of my head in hopes of getting some sleep!

It said “Truth is, I have been hard on myself lately. Questioning anything and everything. Could I be better about finding time to exercise? Cook healthy meals? Job searching & networking enough? Oh and don’t forget about that business you wanted to start – how can I give that more time and attention? Am I finding enough activities for the girls? Still setting aside time for Ryan? Finding moments to connect with friends? How about those golf lessons I committed to? Or cleaning, purging and organizing the house better? Lord knows we have all been home long enough to notice the mess.
Thinking about the answers to most of these is pretty daunting… so what did we do about it? Go to the North End and eat pasta, of course”

The next morning I saw response, hundreds of likes, more than 30 comments… it was clear, I was not alone in juggling pandemic life’s woes.

So if you were all willing to read and support me on that July night. I thought, maybe you would like to see a little more!

What will I write about? My goal is to share my authentic self. We all have seen the “instagram vs reality” jokes. But I truly hope to come across here as I do in person! And share the things I am most interested in:

• Home, Real Estate and our recent renovation
• Lifestyle: DIY, Food, Fitness, etc…
• Deals & Steals – I am a bargain hunter, always have been
• Beauty and Self care

Will I be good at blogging? I hope so
Will I gain a decent following? I am not really sure yet