Last year I joined the October writing challenge to write for the 31 days of the month. I chose Kate Motaung’s “Five Minute Writing” version since I love Five Minute Friday. Quite honestly, it was exhausting to try to write every day. I skipped a few. I amended a couple of the given topics. I concluded that it was too much for me and that I’m more of an occasional, write-as-I’m-inspired kind of blogger.
But then I met Lauren in the spring through our church, and IRL [in real life] friendship has also become writing/blogging camaraderie. Last week we were chatting about blogging, and she told me that she was joining in again this year and that she’s asked for a few guest posts to supplement her writing. I began thinking that maybe I could try it after all. It could be a good way to jumpstart myself back into regularly blogging, which I’ve neglected the past few months of finishing up my book manuscript. I also thought it would be more do-able if I started with a topic I’ve written a lot about personally but have not blogged a ton about – being a parent to 5-year-old fraternal twin daughters.
I hope you will join me as I do a sweeping view of the past five years of highs and lows twice amplified. I may even introduce a few of my fellow twin-mom-warriors to you along the way.
The best way to follow along for now would be to sign up as an email subscriber to my blog [see sidebar] or to like my Facebook page, “Hidden Glory.”
Happy Saturday!
Day 1: how I found out I was having twins
Day 2: twin pregnancy, first trimester: nausea, exhaustion, and PB&J
Day 3: exuberant joy becomes overwhelming shock
Day 4: it takes a village {to raise twins}
Day 5: it takes abundant grace {to raise twins}
Day 6: what to do about fear {when pregnancy with twins}
Day 8: the twins arrive in our world
Day 10: Hi, I’m a waitress to twins.
Day 11: the 6 best books on twins
Days 12 & 13: the best advice for twins, newborn stage
Days 14 & 15: the best advice for twins, toddler stage
Days 16 & 17: my favorite advice for twins, preschool stage
Days 18 & 19: the best advice for twins, elementary school stage and beyond
Day 20: when the reality of twins interrupts the best-laid plans
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Day 31
I’ve been thinking about why I have the blog title that I do – “hidden glory” seems obscure, not very focused or necessarily clear in what it’s about. Yet it fits my purpose for blogging. Writing for me is a way of seeking meaning out of what can be confusing about life; writing is part of my quest to find the glory that is hidden all around us. So at times that means I’m writing about parenting; other times it’s a book review; or a counseling topic; or my meditations on a passage of the Bible; or reflections about my own life; or just observations in general. In all of these, I am inherently seeking the Truth and the Light {coincidentally what my daughters’ names mean} that I believe can and will be found there.
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