1) Lack of
inspiration – I had put so much thought into this blog that the first post came
as a cinch! “This blogging thing is
going to be a piece of cake!” thought I.
Not true. I hadn’t realized that
writing actually requires some inspiration and time. This lead to:
2)
Procrastination – Why not put off today what you can do tomorrow??
3) We found
out I was pregnant!! – I can think of no better news to share with you, dear
readers. With two days left of 2012, I
sent my husband in to gather the results of the test I had just taken. “Pregnant” was all it said. After many hugs and tears, we started this
wonderfully exciting and scary journey to become parents.
“Why would
this hinder your blogging?”, you wonder.
I am so glad you asked. You see,
strange and unexpected things happen to you when you’re pregnant. For instance, I had not expected to develop a
complete disinterest, or rather, distaste for all-things-interior-design during
my first trimester. I am one who will
spend hours, sometimes entire days, obsessing over, researching, and planning
what I can do to make my house more visually inviting and physically comfortable. Yet, I suddenly I found myself saying to my
husband, “Let’s just hire a designer…I don’t want to have to think about this
anymore. I’m just not feeling creative
or inspired and we HAVE to have the house done before the baby arrives!” He would give me a concerned look and say, “But
YOU are a designer!”, and then pretend to somewhat humor my demand. I couldn’t even bring myself to read design
publications. My Architectural Digests
would arrive and I would tuck them away in my desk, plastic sleeves still on, pretending
they didn’t exist. Needless to say, the
first four and a half months of my pregnancy were a dark and strange time
thanks to pregnancy hormones!
4) We
decided to sell our house – You will often hear that pregnancy causes couples
to make crazy and hasty decisions.
Suddenly our house wasn’t good enough, it was going to require too much
work to make it good enough, and it was just 20 minutes too far from my husband’s
office. We started meeting with our real
estate agent and were lining up stagers.
We made an offer on a house.
Fortunately, another offer was accepted.
At that moment we stopped to catch our breath and realized, “Maybe we
CAN turn our house into something great without too much work, let’s try it!”.
Note: During
this time, I deleted all of the “Before” pictures I had taken for this blog as
I thought they would now be rendered moot.
That was a crazy and hasty decision!
You will now have to trust me when I say that each room of our house was
blah, mismatched, and covered in yellow wall paint!
5) We
decided not to sell our house / I came out of the first trimester blues / The
redesign was ON! - My interest in interior design came back with a vengeance,
the Architectural Digests were taken out of their plastic sleeves, I started
putting together inspiration boards and presenting them to my husband, I nearly
completed the redesign of our house in the span of four months, and the thought
of picking up the blog began to sound more appealing.
6) More
procrastination – I now have a greater respect for people who have chosen to
write as a profession. I just don’t
understand how you people force yourselves to get the words out every day,
inspired or not!
7) I’m back!
– This brings us to today. Five weeks
out from bringing a little man into this world and we have so much catching up
to do. Let’s do this!
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