After a two and a half year hiatus I'm back! I decided to start blogging again. I stopped blogging in the middle of a busy transitional year for our family. I went back to work shortly after Peter turned one. I was offered a part-time position at the office I had worked at before I had Claire, and I gratefully accepted the offer. About a month after I went back to work we moved to a new rental. A new job plus a new house and neighborhood created a busy couple of months. Bryce and I were able to work opposite schedules. Bryce worked early mornings until 2 pm and I worked from 2pm-7pm 4 evenings a week. It worked out really well for our kids, but meant single parenting most of the time since one of us was almost always at work if the other parent was at home. This schedule and the ages of our kids left little time for blogging. I was just not interested in allotting any of the limited free time I had to blogging. I wasn't sure if I was done forever, but decided to not worry about it for a while.
We've had mostly the same type of schedule ever since although Bryce did get a different job in the Fall of 2018 so we've swapped and I now work 4 mornings a week from 6 am-12 pm and Bryce works evenings from 1 pm- around 10 pm. Claire started kindergarten this past Fall, Peter started preschool, and I started grad school! Even though more has been added to our schedules, I actually have more free time than I used to. Parenting a 6 and 3 year old is very different and in most ways much less demanding than parenting a 1 and 3 year old. My kids are older now and require less hands on, undivided attention as they did when they were younger. They play together as well as independently for long stretches of time. They are involved in more activities that I just drop them off at (extracurricular activities, birthday parties, play dates, etc.). I started to miss blogging and from time to time would revisit old posts. I missed having a space to share my thoughts and our day to day activities. I decided to go back and blog the past 2 1/2 years worth of activities and events. The posts aren't super detailed but I did at least post pictures from the bigger events and activities we've done. Text is sparse but it's sill documented. I'm not sure how often I'll blog or if it will be in spurts, but I do plan to make more of an effort at keeping the blog up to date from now on!
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