Blogging me

For some reason, when people ask if I have a blog, I say "yes," but with a hushed voice. I'm not quite sure why that is - maybe it is because I'm afraid of putting myself ALL the way out there or I'm afraid of criticism or maybe I'm worried that people will think it sucks? I was thinking about that today - and thinking about the reason that I started a blog in the first place, which was to learn! I wanted to learn how to write more than just emails and status updates (two jobs ago) and learn about how good content drives quality traffic (last job through present). I also wanted to have a place to document what I'm doing and feeling and wondering about because these days, I have a thought and then *pouf* it is gone...never to return again.

At the beginning, this blog was about travel, marriage and a mutt. Now it is about so much more. I still love to travel, I'm still married with a mutt (thank God), but now I have a few more things happening in my life, a real career + a full-time job and kids. Plural. Trying to balance (I hate that word) all of those things into a successful life is something that is harder than I could have ever imagined.

As the overachiever that I am, I have a tendency to beat myself up on a daily basis wondering if I'm sucking at motherhood or failing at work. My rational brain knows that the answer is no, but my emotions don't always listen to my brain.

So here I am. Six months after my last post. Back again, trying to reconcile the new me, who is a bunch of things that I can't always keep track of; wife, mom, professional, woman, daughter, friend, boss, colleague, sister and more. Keeping track of all of that will assure that there will be no shortage of content or stories. And, honestly - writing down my thoughts tends to help me organize them and gives my husband an understanding of what is happening in my head.