Wow, has blogging become the monster that eats my spare time!?!  Look, I have 2 (technically 3, but that’s not important now…) blogs, yet no time to write on them, or so it seems…  Suddenly everyone I know starts conversations with, “I see on your blog you’re……”  Instead of keeping me in touch with friends and family, I sometimes feel it’s driving us further apart, for what is there left to talk about if they’ve already read what you’re doing???  Not to mention, there’s the feeling of, “do I have anything interesting to say???”  I used to post about our house search, then we moved.  Then I switched to our quest for a country-lifestyle friendly car.  We have one now.  Posting about church spun everyone up.  So does posting my opinion on tons of other stuff.  So you say, well, if you put it out there, people will respond…  But I Hate CONFLICT.  I feel what I feel, and if you don’t agree, that’s FINE, but please, just leave me out of it.  Ugh.  Now with everything I type I wonder whose toes I’ll be stepping on.  (Will I be stepping on them just by admitting I’m afraid of stepping on them for instance…)  Honestly I’m not out to change the world.  But how much longer can I blog over here about the day to day nothing & everything of my life?  There are some blogs I read daily, and I’ve begun to wonder what it is I like about them.  Simple graphics, nice pics, short posts, on interesting topics.  (a laundry list of to do’s this is not…)  You’d think with a blog title like “My Simple Gifts” I could figure this out…  I think a journal would have been easier………..