Well, that was short lived! Take two.

I've been itching to write lately and I thought to myself "I should start a blog"! So, I googled "blogging websites" and blogger.com came up on top. Great, I'll start there! Google asked me to sign in to all things google, so I did...and low and behold, I already have a blog.

Lest I appear a complete idiot, allow me to explain.

Some time ago (nearly three years now, it appears from the date of my last post) I decided it would be fun to start a blog. I like to write, I had some thoughts swimming around in my head that needed a place to go....so, I put some thought into what it should be called and what I would write about and came up with "Mothering and Other Things". Apparently then I started this site and wrote my first post.

And then...in my usual manner, I quickly decided (it's coming back to me now) that a free website wasn't good enough, that I must have my own domain name (more legitimate!) and advertisements (new career?!!) and....and....well, I didn't know what else, but regardless, this site wasn't enough. So, I acquired a domain name, signed up for a year (maybe two) of hosting, wrote perhaps five posts, and dropped it entirely. GoDaddy didn't want to let me go. They pestered me for a long time to renew my domain name before it was too late. Once or twice I attempted to log on to my account to see what was required of me...but eh, I couldn't remember my login credentials...and that's all she wrote (ha).

But here it is again, this desire to write. I've changed alot in the past three years, and while I'm still very much a mother, I don't know if I'll feel like writing about mothering all that much. At the moment, I'm all about running. So perhaps my blog title isn't a perfect fit with what I intend to create, but I think I'll let that go for the moment and just try to write, see if it serves me, and go from there.

Take two.

Here we go!

Hello Internet! This will be my little experiment. A place to record my thoughts, musings, reflections. I'm not good at recording life events in the usual ways (I'm famous for forgetting to bring my camera to such monumental events as my sons' birthday parties...sigh), but maybe, just maybe, I can be inspired to blog about my thoughts and experiences.

Since it is a new year, I'm going to begin my blog by recording some intentions (not to be confused with resolutions! I don't do those...) I have set for myself for 2011. Maybe they're kind of resolution-ish, but I like to think of them more like themes. So, here goes:

Theme #1: gratitude
My parents raised me to always send thank you notes for gifts received or kindnesses shown. And yet, I'm ashamed to admit, I have become woefully negligent about writing my thanks. So much so that sometimes I feel so bad that I have not sent a thank you that I find myself avoiding the generous gift giver I have neglected! In 2011, I intend to remind myself to feel gracious and to express my gratitude in a thoughtful (and timely) way.

Theme #2: nurture relationships
This past year I have unintentionally hurt several people I care about through thoughtlessness and selfish actions. In 2011, I intend to pay greater attention to the way my actions affect the people I care about, and to act authentically and intentionally in my interactions with others.

Theme #3: physical health
I intend to continue to take care of my physical health, as I have in the past year. I am re-establishing healthy habits that I want to keep for the remainder of my life. In 2011, I intend to keep this strong focus on taking care of my body.

So, that's it! Here we go...