This week I shut down a blog I've had for about five years. Its changed names a few times, but believe it or not some of the original readers were still there, people that have become like family. My son was only 13 when I started blogging! (do all mom's gauge things by the age their kids were? I do).
It was hard to shut it down and let it go because it was my place to talk about anything: humor, my thoughts, controversial topics, news, whatever. I will miss that. My reason for letting it go was because it was connected to my full name. If you put Barbara L_____ in Google there was my blog. I want to protect my son's anonymity and I don't want any perspective employers reading my blog before they even meet me, you know how people can pre-judge you.
I also have (had?:) one of the top classic rock blogs on the entire Internet - and I have basically ignored it. Between my son and my recent relationship break up I just can't get in the mood to write about music, that scares me because its always been my passion.
I'm really going to miss having a blog to talk and share but I guess there's always Facebook. This blog has a purpose so I don't want to turn it into something its not. Its not really about me. Its about Keven and what its like to parent an addict.
I am going to be sharing a lot more of his story in the days to come. How he got where he is today, all the things I ignored and should not have. I will share posts I wrote last year at this time that, in hindsight, were cries for help from him and big time denial from me.
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