So Why Do I Blog?

I really let the blog go last week. I'm not sure why. And then I asked myself Why do I blog? I rarely take blogging breaks but, this past week, I only posted twice and it was because I was feeling the stress and anxiety of situations, and blogging (i.e. publicly writing about things) is really difficult for me when I feel unsettled.

An example: I hate going to the airport. I just don't like it. Since I've been following a high-protein, low-carb, no junk diet lately, I haven't had candy. On the day I went to the airport last week, I stress-ate some Twizzlers (they were good, by the way, so no regrets there). On days I feel that way, days I'm just trying to get through the day, I don't really need to be blogging,  you know? (It's worth mentioning that these days really only happen when Scott's away...being responsible for everything is hard.)

I'm very careful about what I post online and it's a craft, really, to create profiles and writings in a public forum.

Another example: I've sent Scott many pictures lately of things I've been doing. He posted some of them to his own Facebook page and I had a momentary internal freak-out.

Look. This is me, taking the dogs to school, so I can work on my classroom. My sign needs to be touched up, there's a GARBAGE can in the picture, and a random thing of Clorox wipes (those desks don't clean themselves; I clean them). Plus, the dogs aren't even engaged in the picture-taking. This was just Hey, this is what I'm doing today and here's a picture. I wouldn't have posted it online. But he did, with a nice little caption. And I do appreciate that he cares enough to do so.

But whatever, right? It's real life. 

I probably would've shown you this instead, if I were going to document the experience.

Jett on a pile of trimmer. 

And example #3:

I went hiking with some friends the other day. They took all the pictures with their phones and posted them to social media on the spot. I didn't even see what the pictures looked like until I got home, 4 hours later. That's pretty stressful in its own right, correct?

A rare photo of other people on this blog. 

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So, anyway, those are just a few examples of why I feel the need to lay low if I feel stress. Some people take to social media with all of their thoughts and feelings, I keep them to myself and pop back in when I've somewhat resolved things.

Back to Why do I blog?....

This blog has seen 3 different blog names and 2 URLs. It's seen 3 states, 4 "hometowns", 4 houses, 4 jobs, 3 deployments, multiple highs, many frustrations and struggles, and so on. It's a literal record of my adult life.

But, again, truthfully, I do know why I blog. It's my record of my adult life. It chronicles everything.
I started it about one year into being married and that was one year into being an army wife. I remember the months we dated and the months we were engaged and the months of that first deployment and the months after very well. Shockingly well, even. However, once I started this blog, I started recording things. It's more than just pictures...it's stories, happenings, likes, dislikes...it's literally my life. It's recorded things that I never would've written down or made note of otherwise.

So that's why I blog. That's why I'll continue to blog. Even if no one reads it, I will keep going because not everyone has a record of their life online in this way. Not everyone can go back to mid-deployment 2012 and read about what was happening.

In short, I think I've been busy thinking and that's why I haven't been blogging.

Oh, and can we just say Praise the Lord that it's August? Also, Happy Monday, per usual.

Why do YOU blog?