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Thursday, August 29, 2013

 

Ch-ch-changes


Ch-ch-changes

 

I was just thinking this morning at how I’ve personally changed since starting this blog.  I started my musings on Independence Day, 2006.  My reasoning was simple-I wanted a place where I could dust off my rusty writing techniques, give myself personal deadlines and get back to earning some money with those skills.  And the reasoning behind Independence Day?  That I was starting my own Independence and getting back to my roots.

 

My life is full-daughter, sister, wife, mother, aunt, in-law and grandparent, but I wanted to be Carine the writer as well.  I had truly missed that part, deeply-just didn’t have the time to realize it until our son, Adam graduated high school and we shut down our day care business.

 

There were no ideas of grandeur-just wanted to write.  And so it began.  Quickly realizing that while I could still write pretty darn well, I needed to do something about my technical abilities. 

 

It took the help of a “kindly” stranger to get my list of favorites to be listed-if you try some of those links that are there-you’ll find that some of them no longer exist-but my skills to take them off have not improved.

 

Sigh.

 

But-I have found a way to post some pictures.  That’s only been in the last couple of months-but I can do it!  Plus, I’ve learned how to navigate several social media sites and even post from my smart phone!

 

 

All of these new talents were not easy for me-you’ll remember way back at the beginning, I did write a post apologizing for not being able to acknowledge my favorite blogs or doing a whole lot more than just writing.  I called myself a “technodweeb”. 

 

It’s not that I’m much better at my technical abilities, but I’m very proud of those I’ve honed.

 

I wish I’d been able to have some of these skills when Dylan and Aidan were born-they were just as cute as Jackson-but I just wasn’t able to add their baby photos-not even to “save my life”.  And then I would have loved to have shared a photo of Sunshine.  Our dear and beloved (and despite our new adorable rescue, we still cry at missing her for almost 2 years now) Sunshine.

 

Besides being 7 years older, I’ve written about job loss, aches and pains, graduations, marriages, births, remodeling successes (and annoyances) and our very long moving experiences-some of my posts have been put on other peoples blogs, a couple I re-wrote and had published in Chicken Soup books and others have been my sounding boards-this has been a good place for me.

 

I’m not informing you (by any means) that I’m shutting down-this is still “my” place, but I’m hoping that you all still come here to share my life, my loves and hopefully still finding a bit of amusement in the process of visiting.

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