All Caught Up

This summer I fell drastically behind on my blog and just couldn't seem to catch up.  It wasn't surprising with Brett's wedding taking a lot of my time in June and the additional travel afterward to visit my mom after her stoke. Even though they were both good reasons for my blog to take a backseat, I was very frustrated with myself for allowing a three-month gap in entries.  This past month I decided that I needed to either quite writing it or make it a priority. 

I did not take the decision about my blog lightly.  I had been writing a family blog since 2012.  It had been a great way for Jeanette to keep up with our family life when she was ill.  My mom and a few others had enjoyed reading it as well, so even after Jeanette died, I continued writing.  Over the past few years, I have really come to enjoy putting down on "paper" what we have been up to in our daily life.  Meg and I have also found it useful when we needed to remember the details of an important event.  

Because of this, I knew that I would regret it if I didn't catch up on my blog.  Thus, I started small with daily goals of one or two extra blogs a day.  Once I got back into the writing grove, I then moved on to a weekly goal of ten or more blogs.  It became a priority on my to-do list and soon I realized that I was able to set an end goal.  I didn't quite finish in the time frame that I thought I would as I had planned on being done by this past Friday.  Thankfully, the missed deadline didn't detour me and today I was able to finally close my computer in complete satisfaction as I was 100% caught up on my blog.  It felt really good to meet my goal and to promise myself that I would never be put myself in that position again.