Starr Struck Turned 8! A Belated Blogiversary Post...

Starr Struck turned 8 on March 5th! <Whoops.> I knew there was an important date I was forgetting in earlyish March, but I just couldn't remember what it was at the time...

And if there was ever a symbolic forgetting of a date, this one is it. Since starting this blog 8 years ago, my life has gotten progressively crazier + crazier (in the best of ways), and I'm now at a point where my blog no longer fits as neatly into my life + my work. Don't get me wrong, this doesn't mean that I don't love this little blog + community, but it's just that my daily priorities have shifted *big-time*. 

I feel horrible actually writing this and admitting it to all of you because this small space on the interwebs has done so much for me and meant SO much to me over the years, but life changes. That's what it does.

Am I going to keep the blog going into year #9? Absolutely. Am I going to keep going at the steady [albeit slow] rate at which I've been going for the past year? I'm not sure. I probably will up until Baby #2 arrives, but then...I don't know. I still don't see this blog going away entirely any time soon, but I also don't see myself writing Simple Joys of the Week every single Friday for the next 8 years, either (I'm sorry, SJOTW! Please don't hate me for saying that!).

I'm thinking that sooner rather than later, this blog will become a place where I post when I have something that I feel it's important to say or share (that doesn't fit easily into a post on social media), not necessarily a place where I'm posting regularly on pre-scheduled dates (as it has been for the past 8 years, although slowly declining in frequency every year since year #1). 

But you know what? It's really hard to say where everything is going to go. I have no idea what life as a full-time, working, yoga-teaching, part-time-stay-at-home-mom of 2 will be like. I really don't. I'm thinking pretty hard for the first year or two!?! Which might mean that some things, like this blog, take a way back seat...

So for now, I want to say how grateful I am for the past 8 years of blogging and for all of you (3 cheers for anyone who has been here since the beginning!). It's incredible what sharing and writing can do for your soul, your spirit, and your sense of community. 

And sorry, sweet little bloggie, for forgetting your birthday all together this year! Eek! <Insert embarrassed/apologetic emoji here.>