Blogging Sabbatical…

Today’s the day I think.  I was considering blogging my way across the country and back.  But I think instead I’ll just take a break.  Blogging started as a way for me to maybe keep in touch with out of town family and friends, and to maybe meet a few other women with similar interests along the way.  And it has done that.  It has also done more.  I’ve hit a few nerves along the way.  Closer to home than I expected, really. 

So here’s my official blogging disclaimer:  I don’t blog for you or about you.  It’s a selfish thing for me, really.  And, if one day I post something you don’t like, or my views on life aren’t yours, then I’m sorry.  Feel free to stop reading.  Did you expect me to be all PC online?  Anyone who’s actually met me and has a clue should know better.  I’m not always the nice, quiet SAHM.  Rarely am, as a matter of fact.  But I’m here.  Trying.  Even though it’s not always easy.  If something I post bothers you, feel free to post a retaliation.  Right here.  I challenge you to be ballsy with me.  Not on the phone, or in my e-mail where no one else has to know.  Don’t tell someone else something I say bothers you, I’ll probably still “say” something about it here anyway.  I am who I am.  So sorry if that doesn’t always sit well with other people.  Maybe things you say and do don’t sit well with me either, but hey, I figure you’re entitled to your opinions just like me.  That’s what makes life interesting- that we’re all different.

I try to cook from scratch (yet we ate at Pizza Hut tonight), I homeschool, shop locally, go to an ANGLICAN church, drink beer, vote libertarian, wear pants, have short hair, drive a truck, cuss too much, and tend to honk at people I don’t know on the road if I think their face might be funny when I wave (who was that crazy chick, anyway??).  I never said anyone who reads here has to do everything I do.  It’s up to you to do what’s right for YOU.  This is just my life I’m sorting through, and trying to love my kids and husband through the whole mess no matter what.  The best I can.  I only hope each person who reads this tries to do their best at whatever it is they do, wherever THEY are at right now.

Maybe you buy takeout, send your kids to public school, drive a hybrid, work at a great job, and have none of the same vices I have.  Heck- maybe you’re an EPISCOPALIAN! or maybe even a REPUBLICAN! (-;   Hey.  Good for you.  I hope you’re doing it well, the best you can and that it’s working for you.

That’s the point after all, isn’t it?  Life isn’t a contest, and I’m certainly not trying to win any awards here.  I’m just being me.  And for the next couple of weeks, I think I’ll just go be me in person and skip the internet.  So here you go.  Your get out of jail free card.  If I don’t write, you don’t have to read it.  Everyone’s happy.  I personally am going on vacation.  With my family.  In our SUV.  Somewhere else.  And I plan to have a great time.  Maybe I’ll finish reading Thoreau.  And I’ll probably drink a beer or two.  You should give it a try.  The beer or Thoreau.  They’re both good.  You never know, you might find something you like…

Peace~

Shari

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

From Thoreau’s Walden