Something old, something new

As part of my “blogcleaning” project, I’ve imported about sixteen posts from an old blog. These new (old) posts aren’t from the original “Autumn at Oak Hollow” blog on Blogger (which, incidentally, was first called “Noah Baby Update”). The new (old) posts are from a blog I started in late summer of 2004 back when there was just so much magnificence bubbling up inside me that I had to share myself with the rest of the world.

I wound up losing interest in the blog after a couple of months. Apparently that magnificence erupted like a shaken soda bottle and not Old Faithful. I didn’t have the heart to delete the thing until today, but I didn’t get rid of it before I saved those old posts. That’s my history and I’m all about self preservation.

While the new (old) posts aren’t groundbreaking by any means, they are kind of interesting for the simple fact that I wrote them before I was a mother. I was trying to figure some things out (and still am now, really) and wrote a lot about work. I think whining is the correct term to use here , but I also wrote about how I wasn’t sure if I was ready to be a parent. Those are the posts I find especially intriguing. The work stuff you can skip unless you’re itching to know what I do to put food on the table. My job hasn’t changed a whole lot since then.

Out of those posts, this one has to be my favorite and is a must-read for anyone whose husband has ever read her blog. It’s also rather timely because I recently set Nathan up with a blog on his own domain and am very anxious to see what he does with it. He’s a regular reader now so I hope he gets the hint.