Why I Started Blogging

Four years ago I started my blog. Our family was in the midst of chaos, with my husband gearing up to deploy to Cuba and I was feeling adrift. It's hard to say goodbye to your best friend and know that months will elapse before you see him again.

I knew we'd have more communication lines open than we did when he was in Kuwait at the start of the war. We'd have regular email and snail mail and phone calls. But I felt the need to have something else, some place where I would write funny things I'd usually tell my husband at the end of our day.

So I started a blog. Secretly at first, just sharing it with my husband. I was half embarrassed by my need to write more. I mean, I was emailing and writing letters daily. How much writing did I need to do? My blog started to take the place of my journal and I shared it with my sisters and mom and mother in law and it trickled out from there. I posted several times a month, but never thought I could do it every day. Did I really have something to write about daily?

Turns out, I do! My husband still is my number one follower and there are mornings that his laughter over something funny I've posted literally makes my day better. I like blogging, I like posting my words and thoughts online for others to read. And now that I've posted daily for two months, it feels like part of my morning routine to do so. I will even put down my book (regardless of if I am a few pages from the end) to have time to write before work.

Now, that is commitment to blogging!

I'm going to continue posting daily. I may have started this blog as another way to write to my husband, but I'm blogging now because I have a plethora of words and ideas rolling around in my mind and I can't rest until I pour them out. I might not always be witty and funny, but I personally think I'm always interesting!

Dear Readers, thanks for thinking so too!