Skipping Cucumber
I did it. I skipped a day. It was an intentional decision, brought about by my hope to have a less encumbered year. While I have loved blogging everyday, and I am actually proud that I developed this habit, the perceived "need" to blog daily has sometimes often interfered with quality family time over the last few months. Since I want to spend the year living towards an unencumbered perspective, I decided that extra focus on my family is much more important in the long run than my ramblings being sent into cyberspace each day. So I made a conscious decision to snuggle with my oldest son when he needed it the most and to sit next to, and actually watch a show with, the hubby instead of tapping away on my laptop, absorbed in whatever I had chosen to type up that day. It wasn't easy. There were quite a few times that I would begin to compose in my head. Fragmented paragraphs have been written and lost somewhere betwe...