A month ago I knew I needed a week off. Now I've actually been advised to take a week off.
I am greatly looking forward to the time, which will come likely between the 21st and 28th of June. A friend advised me last night to use it well. "Wait on the Lord Kate, and He will renew your strength." Even his words sounded like just the thing I need.
I haven't been posting. I miss blogging. I miss writing in general. I'm not doing enough of it; not with intensity or results to satisfy. But I haven't been able to make time. About a month ago my routine got thrown off and I haven't been able to right it. I've simply been too busy. And that needs to change. Someone asked me this week when I was going to make time in my life for the things and people that matter. That was a big-time reality check. Something needs to give. I need to slow down.
A month ago I only had two coffee filters. I had to choose which days to drink coffee because there wasn't time to get to the store to buy more. Then I needed coffee like air. I still require the caffeine, and now my cupboard has enough filters for that habit. I've found some time for shopping. I suppose I'm making small changes. It's just time for bigger ones.
Back in college, in 2004 when blogging was hardly even a thing yet, I was here. Blogging before blogging meant anything to anyone. You can look in the archives for my past writings, but it was much more like a journal in the past. When we started fundraising, I messed around with the idea of launching something new for this new phase of our journey but actually hated that idea. I am a sum of all of my life and so much of it is here already. So I'm keeping it here. At least for now.
My main focus these days is blogging about our newest journey into the bizarre and wonderful world of gestational surrogacy. Posts dated 2013 and forward will trend heavily toward that journey. I don't promise everything I write will be about though. There might be other things that sneak in occasionally.
Please come along our journey with us. As the saying goes, "The more, the merrier!"
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There's a really neat book I read called Silent Alarm by John Blumberg (subtitle is "A Parable of Hope for Busy Professionals") and it's got some really interesting lessons about slowing life down and finding things that really matter. Think you might like it. Hope your week off is refreshing and rejuvenating for you!!
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