Repetition

November is National Blog Posting Month or NaBloPoMo. You might remember that I participated in this non stop blog fest last November and the November before. It was a challenge I thoroughly enjoyed. It helped me develop a rhythm of posting, and it required that I came up with more than one topic. I also met other bloggers, and I read some really good stuff.

I didn't join this month. I knew I had too much on my plate, and if you look my archives, you'll see I've only managed to write seven posts this month. That's a fair bit shy of the 30 required for NaBloPoMo. If you actually read those entries, you'll also see I had very little to say except "I'm sick, my kids are sick, boo hoo". Compelling stuff. What I've come to understand is blogging is a habit that requires practice. The less I write, the harder it becomes to write.

There are times when I think about giving this up, joining facebook, and reducing the amount of text I put on the internet. There will come a time when my kids won't appreciate the stories I've told here, and there will also come a time when I should respect their privacy a good deal more. There are stories I shouldn't tell after all. Not to worry however (as though you were), I'm not quitting yet. I'm just slightly bummed that I'm so damn boring these days.