An Evel Knievel in the making!

In Pursuit of Balance

Hello.  My name is Tina and it has been three and a half months since my last post.

Yes, I have taken a little...

 vacation/hiatus/reprieve/pause/break/recess/
whatever you want to call it when I wasn't here

...from the blogging world.  The reasons are many, but ultimately it was time to find some balance in my life and something had to go.  That something happened to be blogging and facebook.  I realized I was spending way too much time checking, rechecking, and checking one more time for good measure too many blogs, profiles, and status updates multiple times a day.  Meanwhile, a new home was waiting to be unpacked, a toddler was emerging, I was suffering from blog block, I was entering a food funk (of which I am still in but working on - more to come later), and all of life's other desires, demands, and responsibilities were calling for my attention.  And yet, I continually found myself in front of my computer.  I realized it was easier to be there than in my real life and I did NOT like that realization!  I did NOT want that.  So, I stepped away (not entirely, but pretty close) and am returning with new rules, perspective, and expectations of myself.

I still have not found a perfect balance in my life, but I doubt anyone ever does.  I think life is a constant juggling act where the juggled balls are constantly shifting in importance and new balls are added and dropped occasionally.  Right now I feel as if I have hands, feet, and head all in the mix and I am looking pretty ridiculous, but the important thing is that I am finding joy in my real-time life and am looking forward to sharing with you all again about those joys, adventures, challenges, and much MUCH more.  There are no guarantees of how often or how much I will be blogging, but for now...Its good to be back!