Problog(get it?...prolog. Bawhawhaw)

Well, I must say... I have missed you. All of you. My life just hasn't been the same without blogging. I have spent the last few days catching up on each of your blogs and it has been so fun to see what everyone has been up to. I know I said I was back once before... and that was a lie. But this time it's for really really real.
I should take this opportunity to let you know I suffer from a severe case of undiagnosed annal retentiveness. Some people call it perfectionism, some may say it's OCD, others may just classify it as a brain disorder. Whatever you call it, you all know you suffer from it too in one area or another. It develops at different times and in different cases throughout the coarse of ones life. This particular episode for me has effected my ability to blog.
Blogging has been such a fun outlet for me and has given me purpose (as if my husband and kids don't:)) and connection to the outside world. I love to read other blogs and their comments and I love to journal and scrapbook my own life since I don't do that stuff traditionally. I love to connect with friends and family I don't get to see as often as I'd like. I love the whole package deal that is related to blogging. The highlight for me is definitely the commenting business. I love to comment and receive comments. It is all about connecting and feeling like I am socializing that gives me happy tingly feelings.
This is where my disorder takes over. If I read a post and don't comment, I feel incomplete. If I'm not reading and commenting on others, then there is no reason to post my own stuff. If I were to make a post and not receive any response, I would feel bad. So if I can't do one thing, I can't do anything. Do ya feel me?
Anyways, I'm not quite sure what has happened to me in life since I made my last post, but metaphorically speaking I've been running on a treadmill. Putting out all this effort and energy and just not getting anywhere. I've just been stuck. I haven't felt like I have had the time to do... anything really. Especially nothing extra curricular, such as blogging.
So since October I haven't read any blogs, because I didn't feel like I would have the time to comment, and I haven't been posting because I haven't been commenting and well, you see the pattern. It's an illness. This is really rather destructive behavior on so many different levels. I stopped taking pictures( well not totally, but significantly less). I stopped emailing. Pretty much no contact with the outside world and no memories for me I guess.
I would really love to comment on all of the posts I've missed cause each one makes me smile and I have sincere and genuine comments for every post I've just caught up on. But lets face it, that would take one million years. I'm just going to jump right in and start from this point on. I want you all to know though that I read just about every post you all made over the last 3 1/2 months and I feel like I was part of every one's Holiday season. It was awesome! Thanks for sharing your lives with me. I love it!
I also would like to catch up on all the tags I missed but I lost track of all the times I got invited to play. So sorry I bummed out on that and thanks to all of you who thought to tag me. Also, I want send a special shout out to Ben's cousin Kelly who gave me some blog love on her blog way back in last century and I never even acknowledged her for that. So thanks Kelly for loving my blog before I abandoned it.
I've missed a lot of new blog stuff too like that whole Followers list and all kinds of fun give aways and such. It might take a while for me to update everyone who has gone private and beg for invites since I didn't send my email to anyone.
So I know I have a lot of work to do figuring out how to make a following and add all the new blogs and private blogs and update my own. So be patient with me, I'll get there. Oh, and there are no guarantees that this sort of thing will never happen again either. I'd like to hope it won't. I'm really the only one who suffers here. I hate thinking about all the fun stuff we've done and all the great pictures I could have taken to solidify those fun memories over the holidays. I guess I'll just have to rely on the people around us this year who took pictures and hopefully they'll send us all their pictures that have us in the background. (Like you Mom, and Darby too. hint, hint:))
Anyways, it is good to be back and I'm very excited to get caught up with everything and everyone. Just to stay organized, I'm going to make a list of some of the things I'd like to back post about. So stay tuned for a recap of:
*Halloween
*Thanksgiving
*Christmas
*Kai and Jude updates
*Funny stuff Kai says (this may become a permanent segment)
I also have some other fun permanent segments for you to watch for that I'd like to add to my blog. Like SPD's and movie reviews:
*SPD's: My darling friend Aarin does Self Portrait Tuesdays (SPT's) on her blog and she is so adorable and I look forward to Tuesdays because of her. I think this is a fabulous idea so I'm going to implement her wonderful idea into my blog. Except I think I'll just do self portrait day. I can't commit to a specific day of the week, there is no telling what the condition of my appearance will be from day to day. But the whole idea is to document what I look like throughout the years too, not just my kids and hubby. As a mommy I have taken on the roll of picture taker and it is very rare to actually be in a picture. It is always fun to look back at pictures of yourself whether it be in a time of beauty or otherwise. ( I have a feeling most of my spd's will be in a time of otherwise). But, if anyone else wants to join in on SPD, please do. It'll be fun!
*Asha's Movie Review: One of my favorite conversation topics is movies. I'm not even that big of a movie buff, but it is always interesting to hear what movies people liked and disliked and why. It is very rare that Ben and I actually go to the movie theatre, but we are avid Red Boxers. So my reviews may be a little behind the current features since I have to wait for them to come out for rent. I'll do my best not to spoil any story lines, since that is so very annoying, even though most of you will probably have seen the movie in review all ready. But I think this will be fun and will spark a lot of comments. I'd love to hear what you think of the movies too so leave a comment or add this idea to your blog too!
So lots of up and coming events to be happening here soon. Props to you if you are still reading this. Thanks for being my friends and family. LOL to everyone. Happy Blogging!