Sabbatical

I didn’t plan to take a sabbatical from blogging. It just happened. 2015 started off really slow for my business. To be honest, I sort of enjoyed working on some of my own projects. I tend to be like the plumber who has a leaky faucet at his own house. I’m scanning other people’s slides, compiling their genealogy books, and restoring their pictures, but neglecting my own. In January and February I got to work on my pictures and family history. Suddenly in March the work flooded in and I was busy, busy, busy. I wrote blogs in my head about stress and sleep, but no time to type them.

At  same time my Honorable Husband had some digestive difficulties and his doctor put him on a diet even more radical than the BTD. I struggled to find things he enjoyed eating that walked a fine line between the two diets. He improved so much that I began moving him to a more normal way of eating. Unfortunately he relapsed, and as I type this today I am trying to figure out what caused the relapse and what he can safely eat. I have planned multiple blogs running the gamut from frustration to hope to success and back to frustration – but none of them have made it to the Internet.

At the same time SIL changed jobs. He was called to pastor a church in central Texas. It is an active enthusiastic church in a farming community. HH and I helped them pack in the old location and unpack in the new location. In between SIL had a week off. He went camping with his brother while DD and BC spent the week at our house. I wrote blogs in my head about feeding toddlers and lifting babies vs lifting weights. I never found the time to put any of them on the computer.

Most recently the drought in Texas came to an end. It was a rainy spring and as you have probably seen on the news there have been multiple floods. I have friends in Wimberley, San Marcos, Bastrop, and Houston. None of them have lost their homes, but many have had property damage.

I have not abandoned the BTD. If anything I have followed more closely because of HH’s difficulties. I have not tired of blogging. I think of this unique and special community all the time. I am finishing graduation picture orders this week and hope that the summer workload will be better balanced between famine and feast. Hoping that my blogging will be more consistent as well and I can share my family’s experience on the BTD.