Pregnant Pause

Well, despite what you may be thinking, I am capable of posting something on this blog and did not in fact forget my log in information :-).

If you keep up with my other blog or know me at all, you know the craziness that is our life lately. Needless to say (but I'll say it anyway!), writing creatively for this space has gone the way of the dodo. Seeing that I'm now free of my gosh-awful job (woohoo!!) and can spend the next 12 weeks preparing for baby's arrival, I do hope that will change.

But, whether it changes or not, I've decided to take a bit of a break from this blog for now. In my excitement, I started it at probably the worst time ever, e.g., just a few months before picking up and moving across the country and turning everything about our lives upside down!! Timing is everything, as they say, and I just don't feel it's the time for this.

Personally, I am very excited about moving into this new phase of life--motherhood and being out of the work world, which already suits me perfectly. In fact, I'd be quite a happy stay-at-home wife, baby or not! :-). I do know that becoming a mother is a full-time job in itself, but I'm looking forward to also beginning to direct real, genuine focus to my writing. Not just a flittering thought here or there, but actually drafting a writing plan and committing to it. This is something I want and need to work out for myself, outside the confines and false "pressures" of a blog.

When there's something to share, then I'll share--but for now, the working and fleshing out of this lifelong desire to write is a private matter.

So, I'm not sure when exactly I'll be back, but I don't have plans to take down this blog. My friend Rachel did such a lovely job designing it, so I plan on leaving the "light on" as they say :-).

For now, I'm signing off from this space and will leave you with one more Haiku, aptly-titled "Pregnant Pause" and inspired by the craziness of life that has become routine for my husband and me lately :-).

Pregnant Pause

Land of land mines, vast--

Joy and sorrow make strange friends.

Birthed, into a storm.