Facebook killed your blog

“Facebook killed your blog,” said my mom about a month ago.

Early in the summer I finally sucked it up and started doing Facebook because I was sick and tired of having people ask me if I did it or not. Facebook is a funny world, communicating your emotions and thoughts in 25 word snippets or so to let the world know what’s going on with you. There is some satisfaction with posting how proud you are of your kids because they did X, Y or Z, and then you move on. No need to sit down and write it up for your blog. I haven’t been blogging lately and I’ve been wondering why. I’ve actually come up with a few reasons other than Facebook.

When I started this page about a year ago I did it primarily to keep my mom and dad in the loop of the every day and mundane while they are in Florida for the winter. With them home this summer, I didn’t feel such an urgent need to post photos or the funny thing that a kid did. October is here and they are gone again, so we’ll see if things change around here.

I think my silence began slowly this summer after I saw the movie Julie and Julia. The movie was delightful and entertaining and I left the theater with an overwhelming desire to cook Beef Bourguignon and to write more. For those of you who saw the movie though, you know that Julie wrote with a purpose, to find herself, to finally become a writer, to be something other than the person in the cubicle. She challenged herself and posted every day, struggling through the good and the bad to meet her goal. Wow… that’s deep. I’m just a mom who occasionally sits in the rocking chair in my kitchen with a laptop musing about how the Tooth Fairy screwed up again or how each of my kids are unique and different little people. Not ground breaking in the least.

I don’t have advertisements to make extra cash, I don’t have a theme to try and draw in readers, it’s just me and my computer who sometimes is the best listener. And after I get all my thoughts down, I often feel a lot better. So here it is. There is no grand scheme to this, it’s just for me.