I have always loved to write. As a child and young adult I wrote so many stories and poems. I still have everything I’ve ever written stowed away in my hope chest. When I was small, one of my greatest memories was Friday. Friday was grocery shopping day. I’m sure it will be lost on a lot of people but we had S&H Greenstamps and books of the week in my grocery store back then. Every Friday, my mother would go shopping and when she came home she would always bring me a new book. She obtained entire collections, just for me, and while she would put the groceries away, my Grandma would rock me in the rocking chair and read my new book. I love books. You can be anyone and go anywhere in a book and they fascinate me to this day. I had always wanted my own book, but every time I started writing I would get to a point where I decided the story wasn’t good enough and pack it in. Then many years into the future, I got the idea to start this blog. I figured it was almost what I wanted, people reading my stories and suggestions, without the pressure of completing the next great american novel. Only it didn’t go the way I had planned.

I did a LOT of research about starting a blog. I took tip and tricks from many bloggers I read and admire. I wrote a checklist out and a plan to follow to get myself going. I joined Pinterest and started creating boards and pinning things. But then my plan failed me, and I in turn, failed miserably with my plan. I began getting posts ready for when I went live, I started setting up everything I would need to reach the masses. I even found blogs I considered similar to comment on when mine got going, but it never happened. I posted for a few months. At first, the excitement was overwhelming, I checked my traffic stats daily. Boy was I disappointed. I wasn’t reaching the masses, in fact, I wasn’t reaching ANYONE, except myself as I tried visiting the blog from other devices to “make sure analytics was working”. Sadly, the stats were working just fine. I checked them less and less. I was sad and disappointed, and discouraged. I gave up… but not entirely. I couldn’t get myself to cancel my domain or hosting. I did a lot of work to get it going and I just couldn’t bring myself to let it go.

Fast forward roughly a year, I start getting these “weird” emails like “So and so subscribed to your blog” and at first I was like, hmm, wonder how this person accidentally did that. Then more started to come in and it became “Where are these people coming from???” Many things run through my head, like who are they? How did they get there? What posts did they read? (I don’t even have that many) What do they like that made them click subscribe? And “Holy crap my subscribe button works!” Here’s the kicker though, I’m not even sure how to work the whole subscriber thing Haha! I’ve never had any subscribers, I set it up but when I couldn’t get any traffic, I never bothered testing it out to see what happened! So listen, to you 9 crazy people out there who subscribed to racewifelife, THANK YOU! I don’t know if you will get an email or EVER visit my blog again, but I hope you do because you’ve got me up and moving!

I hadn’t logged in for such a long time. I had forgotten about posts I had queued up to post. I let my mojo go and gave up and I’m sorry. I’ve decided it’s time to go big or go home if you know what I mean. So, thanks to the proverbial kick in the ass I received from gaining a few subscribers, I’m going to work on polishing those posts up in the coming week and work on a TON of new ones. Even though I was no longer writing, I was keeping track of things I wanted to write about and so much has happened since my last “official” post. We’ve had to become a little more thrifty, we’ve had some great races, and we’ve done some big things, I hope someone really does read a few of these! I have some hope here people, I’m gonna run with it! (P.S. That is SO not me in that picture, just a stock photo of some probably successful blogger, I will make my own one day!)