my return to blogging

I realize that it has been well over a year since I have last updated our blog. I have no excuses. For a while I blamed facebook and said that I was connecting with everyone there...but it isn't the same. Our blog friends are our real friends; and after going back though our blog (for the first time in a year) I realized that I was a lot more open and honest in what I posted and said on my blog because I wasn't so worried about what anyone thought. The only people that look at our blog are the people that already REALLY know us already and are not just reconnecting after 20 years.
After spending the past 1 1/2 hours going through our blog - all the way to the beginning in January 2008 - I realized that I started that blog as a way to keep family updated on our family and our adventures in Hawaii. But as I went back through and read my captions and entries I realized that I also started the blog for myself; It made me feel closer to family and friends back home. I am hoping that by starting to put new entries in again I will somehow feel that connection again......I need to feel it right now more than ever.
It was also pointed out to me by a great friend that this blog can serve as a journal for my family and after looking at it again after all this time I realized how right he was. I saw and read things that I had forgotten about. I laughed out loud and I cried - those are reasons enough for me to start up again!