Last night I was folding laundry and putting it away (aka the Marie Kondo method, which for anyone that is familiar with Ms Kondo knows folding laundry takes on a whole new level... I'm a little obsessed) when babe said "hey, did you see that email from Paul?"

"Uhhh no"

"It's about you"

So...

I haven't written for a while, since Dec 11th in fact.

The truth is, I have had so much on my heart I haven't known what to do with it.  

There has been a realization over the past few months that I can't be whatever people 'expect' me to be.

It felt like the one place where (finally) I felt...

I spoke with a dear friend this evening, and she said, 'what happened... why no more blogs?' 

I sort of hummed and hawed, and confessed that I just was feeling below par... almost a little too raw right now to write.

Our call coincided with a message I received from another dear friend,...

I love Facebook memories.  One came up today, and it was from 6 years ago... it's just me sharing a simple quote:

"Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be" ~...

You know when you feel like you have about a billion things, a billion thoughts zooming around your head?

I didn't really want to write today, and I purposefully didn't commit to writing on a schedule because I didn't want to feel like I 'should'.  However, I am beginning to see that this is...

As we all watch with baited breath as Irma pounds Florida, something has struck me, really hard, right between the eyes.

Some people really panic in a hurricane.

Some have terrible anxiety.

Some duck out as quickly as humanly possible.

Some pride themselves in hunkering down and riding it out.

...

I can't be bothered to blog tonight, but I walked out on the deck and looked at the huge orange moon and listened to the I don't know what on the lake (birds? crickets? It's a cacophony of noise) and I know there is peace in being still.

My head and heart are in FL and I'm not ashamed of being...

Holy crap.  This hurricane, descending upon South Florida very shortly, is a BEAST.  We safely evacuated yesterday, and wait and watch from beautiful Alabama to see what will happen.  Our neighborhood (on the Jupiter Inlet) now has a storm surge warning, and we are completely...

I am sitting at my kitchen table, it's almost midnight and everyone is fast asleep. I really shouldn't be typing here... (but it's all Damian and Angela's fault... filling my head with big dreams).

We are getting ready to evacuate early tomorrow (beating Irma to the punch if you will) getting on...

I'm sitting in bed, taking a breather and just feeling overwhelmed with all the "stuff". Do you know what I mean by "stuff"?

When I got here I was really wrapped up in my own "stuff" - it's the first time at an IMC where I questioned whether I should be here. We just moved, the kids have just...

I was just exchanging messages with a lovely person asking about our move. When the conversation ended I read it back, and thought 'oh goodness! I sound like a complete sour-puss!!!'

I have been feeling really guilty because I am finding the move so hard.

Since we got here I have been so...