Not as in Barack Obama’s campaign.  Not as in the stuff you get back after you’ve paid for something.  Not as in your clothes.

But…as in….my blog!

I’ve changed my appearance in honor of Christmas.  I’m also gonna change my content.  What, you might ask does that mean?  Well….let me share.

I haven’t posted a blog in a long time.  I was in the black hole of blogging.  I used to love to think about blog entries.  Little things that would happen around the house…cute things Whit or Sophie would say…unbelievable things that were happening in my life….awesome things I was experiencing at church.  My mind was full of ideas that would make a great blog entry.  Then…I started questioning myself.  Was this interesting to the blog world?  Did people find this motivational?  Inspiring?  Funny?  What kind of blog should I have?  I started putting pressure on myself to come up with GREAT blogs.  So,  I stopped blogging. 

Last week, I went back and read most of my blogs that I wrote over the past year and realized that blogging is quite like a journal.  While reading some of my posts, I was taken back to some of the greatest times I’ve experienced in the past year!  Like getting baptized!  And going to the beach!  I also got to read what my thoughts were as my grandmother was losing her battle with cancer.   Without this little bloggy blog, I wouldn’t have those things to look back on!

I realized that I enjoy blogging.  And I miss it.  But I have to enjoy it for me!  I realized that I don’t have to have a blog that is only about my relationship with Christ.  Or my wonderful children.  Or my great church.  Or my handsome hubby.  It can encompass them all!  So, I’m back! 

I definitely won’t win the cutest title award.  And I probably won’t write as eloquently as this.  But, by golly, I’m gonna write and I’m gonna have fun doing it!

By the way, as I was changing my design and finagling my way around this wordpress place – I found some stats about my blog.  Do you know that my most read entry was this one?  Go figure! (I still stand by it, though!)