Starting New

After a few good conversations with a close friend, we decided cutting back on Facebook use would be a good thing. I always held on to my profile with the excuse that I liked to keep in contact with high school or college friends I would never see otherwise. I kept catching myself looking at these people's pages and pictures but I never called them, never sent them an email, never tried to contact them at all. So I asked myself what is the point of spending so much time "catching up" with these old friends when I have never taken the time to call them or have a real conversation? It even got to the point where I would feel like I didn't need to call my sister away at school in Washington because I would see her Facebook page and pictures and know she was okay. This had to change. The close friends and family I have, I see on a regular basis. I need to get in the habit of making phone calls or lunch dates rather than liking a status or writing on a virtual wall.

Come May 1st, Mark and I will be living in San Jose: a new city, a few hours away from our current home. It is very important to me that I break the habit of the "Facebook Friend" before this move. That is where I got the idea for this blog! I actually started this project a few months ago but had trouble figuring out how to make my blog header (lame excuse i know). So I kept putting off getting started. Finally, my friend who knew I was working on the blog asked me why I hadn't gotten it up. (a gentle kick in the behind telling me to get a move on!) I didn't have a good answer to her question besides "I can't figure out how to make my header into a picture." It turns out that all I needed was a $3.00 photo editing iPad app! After that it was a breeze. So here we go. I hope this blog will be a place to post pictures so my family and friends can see what I'm doing in San Jose. I also want space to post pretty things that inspire me. Things like a beautiful picnic set in my favorite place, the Napa Valley:

After going back and forth, I decided I will keep my Facebook page but will not be posting on it anymore. There are some great aspects of that website. I can search for people if I lose their phone number. I have a group page for all of the wives of cadets in Mark's class that I don't want to lose touch with. So you can still reach me there if you need to, but I invite you to come along and follow me here! (or send me an e-mail or give me a call) Please bear with me as I figure out this new blogging world. I need to figure out how to do things like links and special fonts.

~Hannah


1. Image from here