Starting Over

I love to write. My problem is that I find my writing spastic and sporadic at best, so when I decide to post something on a blog I can never decide where to start. Do I start from where I left off a year ago? Do I go back six months ago or just pick up where I am now? As I said, I love to write. I could write you a novel of the last year. The whirlwind of adventures and fun that I have had and the journeys I have taken through life, but is that really what people want to read or what I even want to write about? I cannot decide, so I sit instead staring endlessly at a computer screen hoping the right words will pop into my head so I can quickly jot them down before they are gone. And yet, the words never come. I ramble, yes, but that is just annoying nonsense. I have committed myself these past few months to thinking of what I would like to write about, where to start, and how I want to make the words come across on a computer screen. I cannot really capture emotions, though I wish this were possible in words, but I can start over.

And that is what I have decided to do. I will start over. I will commit this blog as a family blog. Yes, I said family, a family of 2 growing to 3 in a little over 5 weeks. Here I hope to record happenings in our crazy, chaotic life that is about to be filled with more chaos. An "Awful, Beautiful Life" (Darryl Worley) is what I am living here in SoCal where everyday is "Just Another Day in Paradise" (Phil Vassar), and I am grateful for each moment I get to spend with my family. We may be eating chicken and rice and suffering through piles of bills for the rest of our lives, but at least we get to do it all together.