It is what it is

I haven't blogged in ages. In fact, the last time I blogged, was two years ago, I think. My good internet friend had just died in a tragic accident, and I wanted to pay my respects. He was one of the last people who read my blog, and well, why bother posting after that?

I started journaling (which eventually gave way to blogging) back in the summer of '99, when I found myself stuck at home in a strange city, thousands of miles away from home (long story), and had nothing better to do. I read "dirt" from other people's lives- about their crazy parents, cheating husbands, trouble-making kids, etc. Well, how could I sit there and fill up on this stuff and not give anything back? Even if what I had to offer paled in comparison? (Actually, I think my life was - and as been - just as crazy in its own way. I still have a working title for the novel I one day plan to write!).

Fast-forward to 2013. I'm a wife (as I was back then- yes, to the same person), and now I'm a mom. My kids are 9 1/2 and 10 1/2, and some how we're all still alive. I joke, but you know how it can be. There are just some days where you look at your life and think to yourself how astounding it is that any of these people have made it to another day. So much to talk about. It won't be a pity party (mostly), but a way to reaffirm to myself that when it comes to my life, "it is what it is".