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September 10, 2007

Where To Begin...?

If there is anyone out there who still happens to check my blog thank you for not giving up on me. I have become totally incommunicado as far as the bloggy world goes and haven't been posting or reading anything. I am totally out of the way of it all and whenever I do sit down to post something I feel like I am totally rushing to fit it in (like now) and so its just not the same at the moment for me.

I really don't know where to start with it all, it feels like I have been away for years. In fact I spent a couple of weeks in England staying with my mom & step-dad and seeing as many of my family as possible. This is cutting a very long story short by the way, I really don't want to bore you with all the details. But just let me tell you this - we tried to have a lovely weekend away (with the kids of course) to a 4 star hotel in Stratford-Upon-Avon. I kind of knew it wouldn't be totally relaxing but I didn't realise it was going to be quite a hellish as it was! A combination of me being sick with some kind of bug and Harrison yelling, screaming, crying and generally being VERY noisy whenever we tried to eat out anywhere, or even just have breakfast. Suffice to say there will be no more hotels for a while. Here are a few picks anyway...

Harrison play shop in moms garden...

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My little brother Chris (or not so little at 6ft 7!) and adorbale photo of cousin Ciara & Emily...

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A rare and lovely photo of me, mom & the kids
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One of my favourite photos of Harrison and Grandad...

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On another note, I am quite conscious of the way my blog has started to veer towards more family stuff lately. I know this is inevitable with the fact that Emily & Harrison are my life right now and there is not much room for anything else. But this is not why I started Noodles & Doodles. This blog was meant to be for me. To encourage myself to be creative, be inspired by the creative world around me and to spur me on to do the things I always procrastinate about doing. Also, I have a whole other blog dedicated to my family and its just silly having things in two places.

With this in mind, I am going to aim to steer myself back around and get Noodles back on track. I am not going to put myself under any pressure to get this done with any kind of deadline, but I feel better that I am announcing it to myself if not anyone else! This is how I started in the first place! I am aware that my family life and creativity may overlap from time to time, so there will always be some element of family on here. I just don't want it to be the primary focus. Well its a long term goal anyway. Everything is long term at the moment.

So thanks for sticking with me and hopefully things will pick up soon and hopefully I can get back into the swing of reading your blogs too! Sometime soon...I'm hanging i here...

Posted by Maxine at 09:48 PM | Comments (4)

Comments

Hang tight Maxine - we're still here whenever you are ready! They'll be off at school before you know it - just enjoy the moment.

I can't get over how YOUNG your folks are - Emily and Harrison are very lucky to have that.

Posted by: Ali | September 11, 2007 10:49 AM

so you had a clear plan when you started blogging?

i just did it. it took me six months to find my focus. which? is so totally "me."

Posted by: capello | September 11, 2007 05:52 PM

welcome back! I d keep checking my feed and hurray today there was new posts! I look forward to the creativeness! That is a lovely pic of you!

Posted by: sal | September 12, 2007 09:03 PM

No worries, I'm still reading!! ^o^

Posted by: li li | September 19, 2007 05:25 AM

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