I have been so frustrated with blogging for quite a while. I am not happy with our blog the way it is, but Jim doesn't have time to change the current design for me, and I can't do it by myself. I've had people tell me that my blog is ugly, that it doesn't reflect my style, and that it is impossible to leave comments, so they don't try anymore (honest friends, huh?).
I have had to evaluate why I blog, and here is what I came up with. I blog to: 1) document my family's life, 2) give glory to God in our day-to-day living, 3) connect with other bloggers / blog readers who enjoy the same things I do, so I can get their input, encouragement, feedback, and opinions. Right now I'm accomplishing very few of my objectives. I have a document of our family's life together, but I can't do anything with it. I want to convert it to a book, but I can't do that in this current format without a ton of effort. I try to give glory to God, but very few people read our blog. And I get almost no input from anyone when I ask for it. So overall, I'd say the blog is failing. And I guess that is why I have abandoned it for a while now.
Every time I talk to Jim about switching platforms, he gives me lots of explanations about ways I can make our current blog work. But none of them are ideas I can implement by myself, and that is the problem. This used to be our blog, but in the last few years it has become just mine. If it is mine, then I need to be able to manage it all by myself, and it needs to reflect me.
And now I'm stuck. I want to move to a blogspot address, but I don't have a lot of time or money to make it look the way I want it. I want to start posting there, but I also want to archive old posts so I can get everything into a book. It's daunting. And instead of dealing with it, I have just abandoned it for a while.
But that's not working either.
Cora turns one on Friday, she has started walking, and we have tons of events that have gone undocumented. That makes me sad.
So, it's time for a solution. Stay tuned...
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Just do it.
hi...i put all my energy into commenting on your not-user-friendly blog...JUST KIDDING!!! It wasn't that hard! HA! I think you should go ahead an move your blog to blogspot and then worry getting this blog transfered to a book later. I have also been annoyed with blogging and the nagging feeling that I need to do it but i just don't feel like putting forth the effort. I have VERY slowly started transfering it to a book (blurb.com) but it's a huge undertaking so who knows if it will ever get done. Glad you are finally biting the bullet and starting fresh. I am anxious to see it. ~Rach