A regret and a declaration...

I started this blog in 2008 after our family moved to Cape Cod from Kodiak, Alaska.  I envisioned it becoming a biography of our lives, that I could share with our friends and family. It seemed easier then constantly trying to email people pictures.  The blog inevitably become one of my most favorite things to do.  I enjoy photography so naturally I loved taking pictures of our lives and posting them with detailed explanantions.  I knew I would look back on this blog fondly and be able to recollect what course our lives had taken upon arriving on the Cape.

All was well until December of 2011.  I made a final post around the holidays and then walked away from this blog.  I had an impending PCS to deal with, life just got crazy, my stress level was up, Trav was in school full time while working full time and I just didn't take the time to sit down and blog.

Fast forward to the summer of 2012 and I attempted to end my hiatus and start the blog again.  We were finally settling into our lives back up here in Alaska (Sitka this go around) and I figured I would begin journaling again here.  As always, I had a hard time making the adjustmentto our move and was missing my East Coast life.  I found myself in a really bad rut between the rainy days, kids in a school I didn't love and just feeling a bit lost in what my next step should be.  I decided to return to the workforce.

So in October I applied and accepted a part time position with the State of Alaska. I was excited, but needless to say after being a stay at home wife and mother for 7 years getting into the swing of things was a challenge.  I still had plans to tend to my kids and husband, take care of my house, do all the laundry, cook all our meals while adding in a part time job.  I was stressed out and looking to find a groove to put myself in where I was again comfortable.

Fast forward to now and I feel like I am there.  The job is going great, I'm settled into my Alaskan reality, the kids are doing great.  All of that means its time to get back to blogging.  I am so disappointed that I had abandoned this blog.  I regret not having so many moments documented for us to reflect back on some day.  So many things have happened that I wish I could go back and document.  Just to name a few:

-Kids started another new school
-Travi's swim meets
-Our first Sitka winter
-Trav's successful hunting season
-The holidays
-CCTI
-Vacation off the island

In any event....this is my declaration, I am blogging again.  I look forward to capturing our daily lives so that I can share them with others but also have them to look back on.  I occasionally go back and look at all my previous posts from years gone by.  I enjoy them, I love them and I want more of them.

So here goes...