2018: The Year This Blog Took a Back Seat

I've been blogging for almost 8 years. In that time, I've written A LOT of blog posts about a lot of very vulnerable things. I've also written a lot of blog posts about silly things, about frivolous things, and about the basics of my day-to-day life. I've just written a lot of blog posts, period.

And I love blogging. I love writing and I love sharing and I love putting myself out into the world and connecting with you. But I can only do so much. And this past year, as my life outside of the blog has grown more demanding (see: toddlers take a lot of energy + running a small business takes a lot of energy) and as my interest in "micro-blogging" through Instagram has grown, this blog has taken a back seat.

I don't know about you, but I've also felt pretty inundated by "content" this year. Don't get me wrong--I adore all of the incredible content that everyone is putting out into the world and I enjoy consuming SO much of it--but my own desire to create blog content has changed as I've felt the content output around me grow. It's the same reason that I've slowly pulled further and further away from Facebook: it's just a lot to take in sometimes and I don't love being another person just adding to the noise (although I often have to be for the sake of my biznass!!!).

So, while I've still been using this blog as a place to share my story, I've done so less in 2018 than in the past. This year, I've spent my blogging time sharing more of the deeper, personal, often hard stuff that I think it's important to put out there in order to make others feel less alone, and I've stopped talking as much about everything else. This wasn't intentional, it just happened slowly over the course of the past year or two as my life has changed and the online landscape around me has changed, too. 

I guess what I'm trying to say here is that yes, as I reflect on 2018 and the past 8 years of blogging, I acknowledge that this blog has changed dramatically. If you miss the way that it used to be, I'm sorry. I do, too, but I simply don't have the capacity for a daily blog anymore. 

So, I'll continue to skip the blogging basics for now, like Gift Guides or product round-ups or even sponsored posts (!), but I'm sticking around and will continue to do so; I'll continue to blog at this same, less frequent rate in 2019, focusing on writing only when I feel like I have something important to say as a mother, a business owner, a yogi, or an artist (and sticking with my weekly #SJOTW, of course).

I simply don't want to add to the noise unless I feel I have something worthy of contributing, and I don't want this blog to become a once-special-place that has been forgotten in all of the noise. 

I hope you understand and I appreciate your continuing to come along on this journey with me. If you ARE someone who misses the more newsy, life update-y version of the blog, follow me over on Instagram where you'll get a much closer look at my day-to-day experience.