My Secret Life

I've been keeping a secret from my husband.  It's not a terrible secret, but it is a secret about how I've been spending some of my time.  What is this secret life I've been leading?

This blog.

Why have I kept it a secret?  Because I so often start off on new ventures, throwing myself into them with great abandon...only to later abandon these great new ventures in favor of the next thing that turns my head.

My dear husband has seen me through two direct sales ventures, a variety of new curriculum that will be "perfect" for our homeschool, and more systems than either of us can probably ever list.  He has seen me through weight loss (and re-gain), exercise programs that fell by the wayside when I fell off the wagon, and hobbies that filled up rooms only to be cast aside.

And he has never complained.   I'm not sure why, but in general, he has been more than gracious about each of these new undertakings.  But this time, I wanted to be sure before I pulled him into yet another hobby in which I wanted to dabble.

We are very different, he and I .  When he says he has "been thinking" about a new hobby or some other activity, he means he has actually weighed the pros and cons and has decided that he wants to go ahead with it.  He also means he will actually stick with it.

When I say I have "been thinking" about a new hobby, I mean the thought just popped into my head, and I'm going to jump in with both feet and give it a try.  And I will probably quickly lose interest and move on to something else.

So, today I sent him an email with the link to this blog because I'm past that initial "thinking about it" stage.  I hope this doesn't mean that it will be yet another venture that gets cast aside, because I'm really enjoying this opportunity to write.

Welcome to my blog, Dear Husband.  I hope you enjoy what you read.

No Glitter

When I started this blog about 10 days ago, I was not sure what I was getting myself into.  I'd been considering it, but thought I'd probably end up doing a blog with lots of pictures of my children and their activities.  I thought it might be a good way to chronicle their school year and to keep family in other parts of the country abreast of what was happening.

But something happened on the way to that first blog post.  Instead of pics of my kids and sharing of our daily happenings, I felt a need to share more of myself.  This has turned into a wonderful creative outlet for me.  I've always had a desire to be a writer, but felt I lacked some key elements necessary for writing anything of great length.  First, I have no creative ideas so works of fiction are beyond me.  Any time I thought that I may have an original idea, I later came to realize I'd either already read a book just like it or seen the movie.  And as for the possibility of writing a work of non-fiction, I don't have the stick-with-it-ness needed to do the research and follow it all through to completion.

But I'm discovering that my mind is perfectly suited to the blog.  I seem to even think in blog posts several times a day now as if I am creating something even when I'm not at the computer...it will probably start to drive me crazy at some point, but for now, it's kind of fun.  The other great thing about blogging is there is absolutely no clean up like every other creative venture I've embarked upon...and I do not need an entire room devoted to it like the one I have filled with cardstock, ink pads, rubber stamps, punches, ribbons...well, you get the picture.  And no glitter to vacuum.

I think I could get used to this...