I have been posting on this blog for more years than I have realized. It was a blog that I created to help me process and get through one of the darkest times of my life: my unwanted divorce and transition into single motherhood. So many adjustments to make, no family nearby to help and little to no time to truly unpack everything that I was having to adjust to, all while feeling like I couldn’t talk to anyone and yet desperately wanting someone to be able to help me through it all. Of course, some days were better than others, some days I didn’t know how I was going to get from one minute to the next and others didn’t even have words or emotions to describe them. Posting on this blog, however inconsistent it may have been, helped me to get through it all.
As time has gone by I have felt more and more like this blog doesn’t really fit me anymore. I guess it is actually more accurate to say that it doesn’t feel like it completely fits my needs anymore, but I don’t want to get rid of it either. All these years, all that time and everything that this blog helped me through shouldn’t just disappear, but using this blog to write about some of the other aspects of my life (my hobbies, the things that I enjoy, etc) doesn’t feel right. Neither does transferring all the entries into a whole new and basically unrelated blog, so what is a single, geeky mom to do? 😮💨🤔
Ultimately after a great deal of thought (and an extremely helpful conversations with my best friend, whom we will call ‘Beth’) I decided to create a separate blog that focuses on all the things that I love, enjoy, and am interested in. Thus Geeky Mom Life was born! I am really looking forward to writing on the new blog about anime, playing video games with my son, participating in Pokémon Go Fest, my son’s and my recent experience building our own light sabers and much, much more! I want it to be place where I can explore, share and allow myself to enjoy the other side of who I am. The not so serious, more playful and childish side of myself that I don’t often share with many people. I am hopeful that having both places to write will feel like a more accurate representation of who I am as a whole, complete person: an individual and a mom.
Even though I am and will be exploring the different sides of myself between these two blogs I know that there will be some entries that span across them both. For example later this summer when it is time to start preparing for school I’ll be writing an entry here about having to deal with the fact that my beautiful, baby boy is going to be a Freshman in High School (🤯😭) and on Geeky Mom Life I will be writing about some of the interesting, geeky, back to school tech out there.
I sincerely hope that you will take time to check out my new Geeky Mom Life blog. I would absolutely love for it to become a place for all geeky parents to come together and embrace the geek inside ourselves. 🖖🏻