New Year, New Look, New... Energy?

Hard to believe it's 2013 and our little kiddos are cruising quickly toward 3 years old. So very, very much has happened in the past 3 years, and I've only shared a fraction of it here. Already memories are slipping away... Things I thought I'd never forget. I miss not having a record of it here (or anywhere, truly), so I think I'm going to start blogging again.

In the interest of full disclosure, I'll say that there were many dark days in the time I've been silent. Dark days for me personally, and especially for my marriage. Now that I (and we) are mostly on the other side of the darkness, I feel a little more free to share. Well, that and now that darkness isn't sapping every.single.ounce of my available energy, I might have enough energy to write again.

I hope I find the energy, because even though I've never really had a following here, I do feel loosely connected to "the blogging community" when I write. I miss that connection. I also miss feeling free to be as verbose as I (typically) am. Chat boards and other means of keeping up with the folks I care about and who care about me are great, but I always feel a little stifled, like I have to break my life up into tiny soundbites for fear of boring people. But here? Here I can wax nostalgic, poetic, or just plain crazy for as many words as I please. Ahhhhh, sweet freedom.

In a feeble effort to bring my blog out of the stone age, I've updated the look and moved some things around. Please do pop into any comment space and let me know if anything looks strange or is inaccessible.

And since it's been a while since I've posted a picture to this blog, here's my current favorite picture of the kiddos (taken last October):