Writing after a long time

Recently after reading a few blogs, it struck me how much I missed writing. Since I was a little kid, my dad used to gift me a diary every new year. He would receive quite a few from the various organizations he used to work with. Initially, I remember writing one or two sentences for a few days. May be, I would just fill up something in January and February. As years went by and when I was in the teens, I had so much to write. Every teenager has a secret and never wants anyone else to read your diary. So, I was not fully opening up to my diary.

Things changed when I shifted to residential school for my Class 10. So much was happening in life and I was missing my friends and family very badly. I used to pour my heart out in the diary. At the same time, I always used to keep it under lock and key. I also used to enjoy writing letters to my friends from my old school. 

Writing in diary and sending letters continued in my life for a long time. Even after the advent of emails, some of my friends were cut off from the rest of the world because of the line of study they chose. I used to send hand written letters as late as 2005. I think by then all my friends were reachable either by email or SMS. I pretty much stopped writing then.

I restarted this habit many times, had a couple of blogs too. One to record my first weight loss journey, other one to record my second weight loss journey (I lost track of how many weight loss journeys I have had) along with many things. But I couldn't keep at it due to commitments of bringing up small children. When I read my own blogs recently, I was impressed with my own writing skills ;-)

Now my children are 5 and 6. In a couple of months, both of them will be in primary school and I will have ample time to myself. I am very much looking forward to it. May be I can write something frequently, make some new friends in the blogging world and have something to do every day. Due to my husband's nature of work, I am unable to pick up a full time job. Also after nearly 6 years of not being employed, I am unsure on what is in store in the job market too. Right now happy being a full time stay at home mom (SAHM).

If someone is reading this, please wish me luck