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Is it weird to just start? Like pick up and start a brand new (personal-ish) blog smack dab in the middle of my life? I feel like it might be. In fact, it doesn’t really seem like the ideal beginning at all, but yet…here I am.
I guess that’s the thing though, isn’t it? Life doesn’t usually offer us perfect beginnings wrapped in bows. The timing never feels right. There’s always doubt. And sometimes, we just wake up and have reached the point where something clicks (or maybe something un-clicks?) and we realize—hey, now is the time, I want to do this. And I do.
I want to do something that feels like me again.
I don’t know if it’s been a slow buildup over the past few months as blogging has been turned upside down or if I just reached the point where I truly want to go back to the good old days (in almost every way), but the fact is—I miss blogging as me.
Not the me who’s checking SEO boxes or managing the day-to-day Pinterest stats, but the version of me that loves writing, and sharing, and documenting life. The one that’s been sitting quietly waiting to stretch out and take up a little more space. The one that has stories to tell, hands that like to stay busy, and a heart that still lights up over something as simple as a really good cookie.
It’s strange how easy it is to put parts of yourself on pause, isn’t it? You get caught up in the motion of everything—running a thriving food blog, keeping a home, navigating getting older—and before you know it, a decade has gone by. Or two even.
But guess what? As I pondered starting this blog, I realized that there’s beauty in starting “in the middle”—you’ve lived enough to know what matters and what doesn’t. You’ve seen yourself evolve. And if you’re lucky enough, you’ve made peace with the fact that reinvention isn’t reserved for your twenties. You can do anything you want to, whenever you want to.
So yay! This is me—starting, not over, just forward. No perfect plan. Just…beginning right in the middle…and it feels really good.
P.S. My intention is to update this blog as often as I can—dare I say daily? EEK. But also, maybe if I put this out there, I’ll be more inclined to actually stick to it. Here we go!
