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Why I Blog…

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So I started blogging quite a while before I had kids. It was when I had time to read blogs and it was the newest thing to do online.

I started off sharing the things I love to do in my spare time… Cooking, crafty stuff, opinions on TV shows… All good stuff in my pre-mom world.

Now that stuff is not my priority.. I love being a mom and I still love all the other stuff too. So now my blog promotes some balance in me. It gives me an opportunity to share about my kids because they do provide me with some good writing material. But my blog also reminds me of the stuff I started writing about. That “stuff” helps me keep my head from turning to over-worked Mommy mush.

A new recipe or scrapbook pages require my creative energies. And my blog provides me accountability to that stuff. I may take a break when all that stuff is too much to blog about, but I always remember my ignored blog and come back to it and my non-mommy stuff too.

Back on Track?

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I feel like I’ve been ignoring my poor blog.  I know I haven’t been blogging as much, but I went almost a month without my Recipes and Books pages working, but I fixed both pages tonight. I don’t have them listed out by month, because that might hurt my head tonight, so for now they are just categorized by Year.

I didn’t realize how much I used the Recipes page myself. I don’t often document recipes other than on my blog, so I end up coming here when I want to make a recipe again.  I know it may seem like just a dumb detail, but sometimes it’s those dumb details that bug bug bug me!

Stupid Host

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So this morning I had trouble retrieving my email from my domain.  I didn’t think much of it, thought things were down for a little bit. Then my mom emailed to say my website was down. I didn’t want to deal with it at work, so I called my hosting company just a few minutes ago.

The guy told me that a server had crashed and everything was lost and he hoped I had a backup!?  Hello??? I don’t back it up, because you host this. And it’s not like you have one server dedicated to me, and I caused your stupid server to crash!

He put me on hold and after several minutes, came back to tell me he could restore it to 5 days ago.  OK, I guess that’s what I’ll have, and I’m going to go back and read my fine print and give your sales department a call… I’m still waiting for the photos to be restored.  We’ll see.

ooooo – sooo pretty

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I did it! I updated my version of WordPress and then downloaded this lovely new template from Jennifer, who is sooo talented! Her templates are always soooo pretty and nice!

It only took my like 20 minutes to figure out that I no longer needed to hard-code all my fancy links and twitter and del.icio.us by hand in the sidebar and there are these new fang-dangled things called Widgets.  Sorry if I’m geeking out on some of you, but I know you WordPress users know what I’m talking about!

Anyway, I hope you enjoy and that you find this new look pleasing on the eyes!

Updates – Stay Tuned!

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I’m so out of touch with keeping my blog updated… it’s hard enough to blog, let alone manage the site. But I just logged into my domain account. Only to realize that is was time to renew! Yikes!

AND, I updated my version of WordPress and downloaded some new templates to start playing around with… Stay tuned!