Absolutely Bananas: Seattle mom blog

What happened to Absolutely Bananas?

A few weeks ago I logged into Google Analytics to check my stats. Don’t ask me why- I blame a severe case of not-wanting-to-go-to-bed.

So I’m scanning through the usual suspects of keyword searches that led people to my blog.  And then I see it, number three on the list:

What happened, indeed?

A lot has happened since we last spoke. For example last year we pulled CJ out of public school and enrolled him in private school and then I got pulled into seven thousand committees and then there was the trip to Disney World and the trip on the catamaran and then I tried out boot camp and then hired a personal trainer and STILL I don’t look like Jennifer Aniston (can you BELIEVE IT!) and then I went back to work FULL TIME and Jay quit his job and I started hot yoga and oh yeah Christmas, New Year’s, and the trip to Palm Springs.

So we’re caught up.  Good.

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about my blog. Specifically: am I done blogging? and also: if yes should I close it down and IF NO when will I start blogging again and what will I blog about?

I notice that as CJ gets older our trials and tribulations and funny stories all circle around topics that are really not bloggable like that one annoying kid or the reeeeally annoying mom or a million other things that I can’t write because someone might read them and then I’d be in hot water.  And CJ… as he grows… his stories feel more and more like HIS and less like MINE. And is it ok for me to share his struggles and deep-dark secrets with the whole entire universe even if no one reads it?

Then there’s the teeny-tiny issue of Time (haven’t got any) and Energy (have even less) and without either, how do you blog?

Still, I’m not a giving up kind of gal, so I hang onto this desperate hope that I can pick up the blogging string again and turn it into something that I do for fun and that isn’t a burden. Because the truth is I love blogging. That it makes me write. That it makes me look at life through a little different lense. That it’s MINE and mine ALONE bwah ha ha ha ha.

(and how will I get a book deal and become wildly rich and famous without it?  I mean SERIOUSLY)

So I’m going to try again. Today is a fresh start in which I will post REGULARLY and I will NOT OBSESS and YOU WILL LIKE IT.

Ok maybe not the last part. Unless you’re my mom. (hi mom!)

We’ll see how it goes.

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