Sorry For the Delay

Okay, so I haven’t blogged in a while and have a lot to catch everyone up on, but first I need to explain my delay. It’s pretty silly really…after the last couple of blogs (written about 3 months ago), I checked to see the numbers Blogger recorded for our page views, and it was pretty discouraging. For a long time, it was telling me that the last blog wasn’t viewed at all, and the prior blog was only viewed like three times. So every time I sat down to write, this voice in my head would tell me, “Why bother putting all that time into writing? Nobody’s going to read it anyway.” And then, just like that, I’d get up from the computer and forget about writing. 

Around the end of December, I started to plan for a year end/year start blog entry, and again checked the numbers. Still nothing. Despite this, I moved ahead with my plans to do a blog that presented each family member’s most vivid memories of 2012and biggest prayers for 2013. Between the lack of page views in the back of my mind, and the lack of willing participation from a lot of the family, I gave up again.

I started to think about blogging again this week. After all, some pretty exciting stuff is going on that we want to share, and will definitely need some help with. So, I talked to some friends about nobody reading my blog, and they insisted it must be a technological error from Blogger. When I got home, I explained to Erinn why I hadn’t written, and she immediately logged in to see if the numbers were true. When she logged in, the numbers for our past two blogs were actually among the highest we’ve ever had! 

So the moral of the story is that it shouldn’t matter what the numbers say here anyway. I shouldn’t be following what the negative thoughts in my head are telling me; I should be writing these blogs for even one person who might enjoy reading it. Thank you so much for reading our blog and staying connected with us even though we are far away. Y Lo siento por mi falta (And I’m sorry for my mistake), and I will do my best to keep the updates current. 

As for what’s happening here…that is going to take a little longer to write up, so stay tuned.