Well, I have and I haven't. See, I haven't written anything on the blog for almost two weeks. So in that sense, yes. Neglect. Guilty.
But I've been thinking about the blog. A lot. About whether I want to keep food blogging. (Answer: yes, but not exclusively.) About how I'm not a talented enough writer to be able to just turn on humor like a faucet, and yet humor, when I've got it, is my favorite thing to write. But? Sometimes I just want to be able to write without the pressure of trying to be funny. Really, there's only so much humor you can squeeze out of a polenta recipe.
I've also been thinking about my priorities, and how blogging fits into that. My first and foremost priority, which I take seriously, is as a homeschool facilitator for my boys. Their success depends at least in part on my availability. There are certain times (*Tuesday mornings, cough*) that I can't be tied up at the computer, either writing blog posts or spending time creating a network of readers - hello, all three of you!
I'd also like to include posts about what we're doing with school, because sometimes what we're doing is pretty cool. Sometimes it's downright mundane, and heck, there may even be a place for that in my writing.
I've also, at long last, decided to take seriously my attempt at Intuitive Eating
. I've been messing around with it for over a year, and have never been brave enough to stick with it. But this is finally the time. And one of the things I've realized, already, is that while with IE I can eat baked goods for breakfast, lunch, dinner and midnight snack if I want to... well, I don't want to. Baking even once a week seems like overkill to me right now. I also realized that I want to bake what I choose, when I choose, even if some months that IS once a week - or more. So, if the TWD recipe looks good to me, and I'm in the mood, I'll happily bake along. If it doesn't, I won't. If I get kicked out of the club for some egregious rules violation...well, life will go on.So there you have it, my current Momifesto. (It may change tomorrow.) Thanks for allowing me to get this off my chest; and now back to your regularly scheduled programming.
Robin, I love your blog! I'm glad you're going to continue with it and write about homeschooling. I'm sure a lot of people don't really know what it is. The most I've seen is watching the Duggar family on TLC and that's probably not the best representation of home schooling considering it's a TV show. I think you are funny, witty and love your sarcasm! Your pictures are also really nice.
Hmm.. the intuitive eating sounds interesting, but I could definitely not be trusted with that. If I don't plan stuff out, I would probably eat the entire TWD dessert myself. No self control over here!
Steph - somehow I missed your comment. I'm sorry!
Heh, we are SO not the Duggars, lol. I am sure they are very nice people. I just tend to differ with them politically, philosophically and on the matter of how much laundry I'm willing to take on. :-)
Aww, of course you could be trusted with intuitive eating. Your body figures out pretty quickly that an entire TWD dessert makes it feel like yuk. It would probably only take doing it once for the novelty to wear off. ;-)