Temporary? Insanity

Did you know that when you do a Google image search for Reinvention most of the pictures are of Madonna? After a weekend at home alone with three young children (one who keeps waking up two hours earlier than usual, one who keeps yelling Mommy! Come wipe my bum! and one who shrieks like someone is stabbing her with a stick every time I leave her line of vision) the last thing I am in the mood to see is someone looking 1) thin (the number of pumpkin chocolate chip muffins I have recently devoured is VERY disturbing) 2) well dressed (I think the shirt I am currently wearing has been spat up on at least twice – and the shoulders have been gummed to the fabric equivalent of death) and 3) smiling a mysterious smile (the only mystery in my life being, What Is That Odd Smell in the Bathroom?).

I think I may have just qualified for entry in The Longest Sentence Used in a Blog Post Awards. Now tell me, was that last paragraph funny in a hilarity inducing way, funny of the trying too hard variety, or just sort of whiny and snarky? You see, I want to figure out what sort of blogger I am and so far I’m thinking Comic Genius might need to be crossed off the list of potentials. Hallo. My name is Kim and I am suffering a blog identity crisis.

I got to thinking about some of my favourite bloggers and what it is about their writing that captivates me. I think of Nicole and the sweetness of her words and the beauty of her photos. That wry sense of humour. The way she adores her children. The fact that I can hardly imagine how big her heart must be to encompass everything she demonstrates her love for. I think of Becca who is warm and funny and so genuine it’s a wonder readers can’t reach through the screen and poke her. That Girl with her delicious sense of humour and who without even meaning to I am sure, inspires me to want to be as thoughtful and service oriented as she is. And I don’t think there are words to describe the way the wordsmith Terresa Wellborn stirs my soul with her poetry and prose.

They and so many of YOU share something. There is something in all of you that makes me yearn to read your words. And today, after four years, I finally put my finger on it. You don’t write ABOUT yourself, your write FROM yourself. Does that make sense? And after four years of writing about myself I want to be done. I want to reinvent this blog. I want to change that tagline of mine from The Egomaniacal Ramblings of a Mildly Deranged Housewife to something…more. Something reflective of where I’m going next. I’m not sure what yet. Not sure where yet. Reinvention is usually more of a process than an event.

Hopefully the end result of this crisis will result in something worth reading. If not, I have a blog roll full of people who are.

(Tagline suggestions welcomed. If I select yours then you will win the highly coveted honour of me assembling a prize package to mail you that I will then forget to post.)

“God has entrusted me with myself.” – Epictetus