The Blogging Sabbatical

So, Blogher, Adsense, and some of my 130 (really?!) followers may have noticed, that of late....Katie doesn't really blog. Katie QUIT blogging.

Okay, so I didn't quit. Officially.

I've blamed it on busy.

And I've blamed it on babies.

I've blamed it bloggers block.

But to be honest.....those are just rationalizations for the core reason.

I've just felt a little........censored.

I don't say bad things in my blog. I don't swear or slander. And I've only been called out on my content a couple of times.....

But the problem is....the "phantom" followers.

You see, I don't "know" my audience. I don't know that they all approve. I don't know that you all like me. A personal problem, I recognize. And as our life has taken different turns this fall and this year, I've found that many of the things that I most wanted to blog about.....weren't topics for to bring to the blogging table.  But I hate offending. I hate hurting feelings, I hate not being approved of. Again, mostly a personal problem....but this is what blog readers want right?! REAL, so here ya go.

I am not everyone's favorite person ever. I accept that.
I'm a Christian, and not everyone gets that. I understand that, as well.
I'm a mom, who has an unconventional story, and some people don't understand. Gotcha.
I have strong, sometimes unpopular world and life philosophies. Unpopular about sums it up.
I'm a Conservative. {gasp} Yes, we do exist under the age of 50. And, no, we're not radical, but we are passionate.

I can't be all things to all people, and somewhere along the  lines I will probably offend you, too. Sometimes, my fingers get ahead of the brain that the good Lord gave me.

 I got a little tired of the fluff posts that I had been slapping up on a daily basis, because I "didn't want to offend", and didn't want to "say the wrong thing".

I'm not sure where I'm going from here with my blog, BUT.....know that I'm back, for the better part of......"indefinitely."

This blog was birthed as I prepared to birth the biggest surprise of my whole life. And now, as we raise these sweet little hooligans, I find myself at odds with the identity of my blog. Is it about what I want to write, or about them, or about one mini-facet of my day that I try to make interesting to my readers......lame, but that's what I have found myself becoming.

I'm looking for a balance between "diarrhea of the mouth/fingers", aka a daily rant on everything wrong with the world ....and the jibberish, and daily nothingness that I had been posting.  The #1 goal here is that Christ be honored in what I say and do, so if you don't feel I align with that, please let me know....in a respectful way.

So, we'll see what happens......the Baby Factory is back in business.....

....and I don't mean that literally ;)

And you may have to be patient with me....I'm a camera down and barely remember how to construct an interesting blog post.