Friday, July 18, 2014

Long Lost Blogger has a New Blog

My last blog post was April 7, 2013.
I am astonished at the year it has been.
My husband did not deploy, resulting in a big mess to clean up.
In the midst of that, we had a baby.
The day before we found out he was not going to deploy, we found out we are going to have a baby after struggling for a long time to get pregnant. The year that followed resulted in him hating is job as an exterminator and me puking and getting huge.
The good thing to come out of this, was Isabelle Grace. The love of our lives, and what we do all this for. She was appropriately born on Thanksgiving Day.

Izzy is now nearly 8 months old, and amazing. Our lives continue to be messy, but now they have a beautiful, messy, fabulous new factor.

After the non-deployment and with the coming of the new baby, I stopped writing entirely. I simply could not handle it. Now, it's time to start again. It's time for new exploration, and a new blog.

I can't believe my readership has continued after over a year of not touching this blog. It encourages me to go on, to write again. So, here it goes. Warning - it may not be pretty.

The Terrifying New Blog is aptly titled "Our Messy Life"
bemessylivemessy.blogspot.com

Here, I will be exploring living a more connected life with the help of Rachel Macy Stafford's book Hands Free Mama: A Guide to Putting Down the Phone, Burning the To-Do List, and Letting Go of Perfection to Grasp What Really Matters.

I will also be exploring being a mama, and while being a mama trying to still be a good wife and a good person! I consider myself "kind of cruchy." We babywear, but don't cloth diaper, use homeopathic treatments but vaccinate, Attachment Parent but don't co-sleep, practice Baby Led Weaning, and whatever the hell else falls in to the Crunchy/AP category we are trying to figure out. We take what works for us and move on, and Izzy is teaching us new things about ourselves and our beliefs (and our relationship) every day!

And then, there's marriage. The messiest topic of all.

Thank you, readers and friends.
Please join me on my next step.