New Year, New Blog

Last night I rang in the new year with my best friend and my super-cute husband at a fancy New Year's bash. It was an important milestone, not only marking the beginning of a new decade but my first New Year's as a mother, a mother who still knows how to get dressed up and spend a night on the town, I might add. The boy was spending his first night away at his grandparents' house, while his daddy and I got some much needed adult time: a whole night to ourselves, complete with crisp hotel sheets and morning coffee in bed.

Nonetheless, I spent much of the night thinking about the boy, my new life as a mother, and my efforts to build our family and create a home life that reflects my ideals. Of course, this is pretty much what I think about all the time and what I have been blogging about on my old blog since Colin was born 11 months ago. And so it occurred to me that maybe it was time to start a new blog, one that better reflects my interests and experiences, since I'm no longer the girl from Arkansas who blogged about living and traveling in Europe, without a husband, a child, a dog, a cat, a job, or a single care in the world. And when better to start a new blog that on the first day of a new year?

So this afternoon, as I ate my black-eyed peas for the coming year's good luck (an old Southern tradition that we observe religiously in my family), I resolved to finally give this new blog idea a go. So here goes...