Throwing in the Towel!

At the beginning of the month, we accepted the NaBloPoMo challenge to commit to at least one posting a day on our blog for the whole month of November. And, try as I might to post daily, I just can't seem to do it. What I did do, though, was use my legal experience to find a loophole in the blog system— you can assign any date to your posting when you post it, so I have been retroactively posting my entries as I had time. What I didn't take into account was that there were some devoted readers out there who were visiting on a daily basis, my brother Matthew being one of them.

I haven't talked to Matthew for quite a while now, and leave it to two 20-something siblings (okay, so I'm 30 now) to have that overdue conversation in the form of text messaging. Yesterday I sent him a text inquiring if he had been keeping up with the blog, which he had. He then asked, "What's with the daily post thing?" I admitted to him that I was averaging one post per day, just not posting them on a daily basis. He replied, "Yeah I noticed that when there weren't any posts and then all of a sudden four in a row!!" My secret was out. For a brief moment I felt like a failure, that is until he texted me again and said, "Well, you don't see me trying to do it!" And, with that comment, I knew he was complimenting me.

Creating the blog has been a huge undertaking, but even without our readers, "Called to Connecticut" has become an important therapeutic project for us. I tried to keep up with a daily post, but my schedule just didn't permit it so we will go back to our regular sporadic postings. To our die hard readers: Don't worry! Check the blog often; we usually post something at least a couple of times a week.

So yeah, we're throwing in the towel on the NaBloPoMo challenge. Talk about a HUGE relief!!! Thanks Matthew!

~Sarah E. Rose~