I spent a lot of time over the holidays going through old blog posts from Fast Times and here on Flamingo House and it was fun. Also, odd. Really odd.
Moving Fast Times from its home on ClubMom to its new archived home on hosted WordPress meant going through each post that had images and re-uploading images. That was interesting. Watching Michelle change. Skimming over the stuff I wrote about or wanted to write about but link dumped because I didn’t have time to write was troubling. I needed more time. It was also interesting to see holes in time where I know there were things I should have blogged about Michelle and education and growing up, but I didn’t blog them because people were reading who wouldn’t have appreciated those stories. I should have blogged them, saved them as draft or pushed them out with a password. Not for you, friends and family, to read or for strangers to read – but for Michelle to read, later. I loved that blog but looking back, I have lots of regrets.
Going back through this one, Flamingo House formerly known as Daily Dose, to clean up links and funky text caused by the move from Blogger to Typepad to WordPress. What a mess. Besides the mess, there are also regrets. Dozens of posts started but not finished, because I didn’t have time. So many family stories not shared, huge holes where our lives should have been documented.
I almost broke my own rule about resolutions and came here to say I was resolving to blog more often and blog more openly or if not openly then to blog privately. But no, a resolution isn’t the answer to these problems. I don’t have the answer. I don’t have a solution. I do have ideas. Now let’s see if I can put those ideas to practice.
I don’t want to look back again in a couple of years and see so many untold stories and unwritten posts.