I thought return would be a great word for my first word-of-the-week post in over four years. I used to take part every Friday sharing a word that summed up my week and then I just stopped. In fact I stopped sharing anything remotely personal and began dipping in and out of blogging.

I think there were a few reasons why I stopped sharing more personal posts one was the pandemic, and another was my health. I also just stopped enjoying it although I think that was more to do with the enormous amount of stress and expectation that I was putting on myself.

Last week while tidying up some old posts I started to feel really sad that I don’t write like that anymore. I do like writing articles about money-saving but I also really like writing about my life too. I realised I missed it a lot.

I decided to return to some other blogs that used to take part in word of the week and it was so lovely to see many familiar faces. I felt very inspired by Kim’s blog Life As Kim. She has been blogging consistently and sharing all aspects of her life for many years. Kim just seems to go for it with blogging and takes part in lots of link-ups and tags something I used to love doing.

I’ve really missed the connection I felt from blogging. I have continued to write but it hasn’t felt the same.

I have decided to just go for it. I’m starting with word of the week and slowly building up to sharing more about my life. There will still be money-saving articles because I love sharing my ideas. The one thing that will be different is that I won’t be sharing much about the kids. They are 10 and 12. It just doesn’t seem right to share as much as I used to about them in the same way.

Another change is that I don’t have any social media related to the blog apart from Pinterest. I feel a lot more comfortable just writing for myself and connecting with other bloggers. Reading blogs is what got me started with my own blog 11 years ago.

So there it is my return to blogging is done. I look forward to connecting with you all again.