In the late 2000s I kept a personal mom blog called Nest Bliss. I reviewed books, wrote about the house and the girls, and was even in the Wall Street Journal. These posts are from then: light, young, a mom in her late twenties. I have edited them to stand on their own.
I have been cleaning out the attic tonight...shed up next. Trying to do a big garage sale in two weeks.
I pulled everything down from the attic this time - gross - Florida attics get unimaginably hot in the summer. I did find things I hadn't seen in years and some cool stuff from when I was little for Ava like tons of wooden blocks (resting below in the bathroom sink).
But I also pulled down all my teaching stuff. That was what I went to school for and what I started out in but for four years I have been working in the arts marketing field, and I love it.
But, that teaching stuff represents hundreds of hours of work creating and writing and compiling - for something I also loved. The teaching books need to be sold - well most of them.
The notebooks need to be thrown away. I guess I have made the decision to at least for now turn away fully from that path.
I don't feel sad about it, I am ready. I keep looking through it all and thinking about what I might use for helping Ava.
'Stuff for Ava' is really getting out of control though and I have a very small house. ( boxes of teaching stuff )
I guess it is like this your whole life but ours so far has seemed particularly jam packed with choices - the fork in the road kind. p.s. Best Brownie Mix Ever - really just try to make them better homemade - you can't give up already and buy the box.