The new chapter.

Or maybe this is just an entirely new book.

I can't fully explain it, but my desire for a fresh blogging slate the last few months has been weighing on my mind. When I started blogging under the DoxieNoodle title I was excited.  I really felt like that was the 're-branding' I needed.  I felt an emotional tie to all the words the four years I've spent blogging have brought to my life.  And now?  Now I just feel a sense of closure there.  Like all the reasons I was there just don't make sense any more.

I really did start out as a mommy blogger.  I wasn't doing reviews and giveaways.  But I was blogging, almost solely, about Caleb and Lorelei.  I didn't talk about marriage or divorce.  Both of which occurred.  I didn't discuss bipolar disorder.  Though I found out only months after I started my original blog.  I carried that baggage solely inside.  Choosing to put my focus on remembering just what was going on with my kids.  On any random day.  In fact, I didn't even have any readers.

Recently I realized that I am no longer a mommy blogger.  I sometimes go a week or two without even a mention of things the kids are doing.  I may have even gone longer then that without realizing it.  As they grow, my blog changes.  Maybe not out of necessity, but just because it does.  Blogging about them having math homework certainly isn't as interesting as blogging about the time my daughter, then three, pointed a fake wand at my son and a (former) friend's daughter and shouted, "MAKE LOVE!".  Now that was blog worthy.  But I want to go in new directions now.

I suppose this all sounds like a bit of a big nonsense ramble, but I know what I mean in my head.

In addition to feeling the itch to move.  And the desire to carve out a new, more adult focused, space.  I have a reader I'd like to lose.  His name?  Ex-husband #1.  There are just too many times that I've felt forced to hold my tongue.  As I'm sure you can imagine.  And a new space makes me feel that I can talk more about what it is like to be a divorced parent.  One who is remarried and dealing with an ex-spouse who has also remarried.  Because oh boy has that been a blog worthy experience.  But as I originally started blogging so that he could stay up to date with the kids after our divorce...I couldn't just ask him to stop reading.  And then believe that he had.

And so here is to clean slates.  New spaces.  And hopefully the same friendly faces of the readers I had while writing at DoxieNoodle.  Cheers!

{Did you notice the new name?  I thought it was a bit clever.  Cheeseheads and all.}