Refocusing

Life is moving fast for me. My life has become busier, activities, ministries and hobbies are taking up more of my time. I want to be everything and do everything that comes my way. I have a thousand things that I want to do this summer. I have a lot of dreams that I want to pursue, but I can't do it all at once. I'm learning that sometimes you have to take a step back, and refocus.

   I love photography, and I love blogging. I love the idea of meeting people online that have the same dreams and interests that I do, but sometimes in the desire to meet people online, I neglect the ones that I already know. Which is something that I really don't want to do. I want to be able to enjoy blogging and photography, but not have blogging be my life. As Kimberly so wisely said, I want to build blog around my life, and not my life around my blog. My life has a decreasing amount of time for extra things, and I've had to do some sorting. What to keep, what toss out, and what I can change so they will fit in somewhere. So, somewhere in that process, blogging came up. And after some thought and prayer, I really feel like I need to step away from this for a while. As much as I love it, it has been eating up time that I could be using for things that I really need to do. I'm gonna keep taking pictures, so don't worry about that. I'll mostly be using my flickr, though, for sharing my photos. It takes about half the time blogging does, but I still can enjoy the fun of sharing my love for photography with others. If you want to join flickr, to stay in touch with me or for other reasons, I'd be really happy. I'd love too see you on there. I won't be deleting the blog, and I'm hoping that I'll come back sometimes, and start filling these pages with memories once again. Maybe in a couple of weeks, maybe in a couple of months; I'm not sure. I sad to leave, but I really feel like it's a step that I need to take.

So I want to say a big thank you to all of you guys who've helped me so much on this blogging journey. I'm so grateful for all the comments and suggestions, they always make my day. :) I really appreciate all my followers, you guys are so awesome. I really never thought I get this far with blogging, and you guys have really encouraged me to keep trying to improve. A special thanks to Mary Ann, whose been really sweet to me all along, and has helped me tons with design etc. Thanks so much!!

If you want to stay in touch with me, either check out my flickr, or email me at reflectionsphotographyblog@gmail.com. I love to hear from you.

So it's goodbye for now,

--Carli