I’ve been thinking about starting a personal blog (not about my boys) for a couple of weeks. Tonight I decided to “just do it.” I apologize in advance if I drive you crazy. Note the name of my blog–it is going to be a bit of everything. Anything I want.

I used to have more of a creative side to me, at least in the writing area. I feel like I have lost that part of me, and this is part of an effort to recapture it.

Tonight I started reading “Be Your Best–the Family Manager’s Guide to Personal Success” by Kathy Peel. It is about finding time as a busy woman to be able to manage yourself as well. So, there I sat, on my couch determined to start this book instead of watching another hour of tv. I’m taking notes, and get to the “Dreaming Exercise”. Now I have to quote here so you can get the full effect. “Imagine that there are no restrictions or obstacles in your life. You can do what you want to do and be who you want to be. Make a list of 10 things you would do if this were true.”

My list is still blank. Under it, I wrote “This is very hard for me to do. Not only am I a natural people-pleaser, but I feel like I have lost myself over the last 18 mos. My brain doesn’t work like it used to.

Then I read [from Kathy Peel] …’ We feel overwhelmed and focus on our liabilities, some of which are real but are greatly exaggerated, and some of which are imagined. What we must do instead is choose … to focus on our assets–what we do have and what we can do.” Well, if that isn’t ironic and a slap in the proverbial face!

So, I still can’t figure out my list, but I decided to start this blog. I am hoping it will help me have a chance to think once in a while, and also share other ideas with other people, as I am homebound almost every single day.

I hope to share recipes, bargain sites, thoughts, tips, helps, whatever I find useful somewhere else that might help somebody else. I hope that maybe you might say “hi” once in a while and share your own ideas, too.

Thanks.