As I write this I have been blogging for almost 2 weeks now.

Most people keep their blogs set to private until they are done with the technical side of things.I however, spent one week reading about how to blog, spent one day getting hosting, one day getting word press, and then I jumped in.

Considering the name of my blog Snail Pace Transformations, most people should be stunned by my approach. However, if you knew me personally you would understand. I simply did not understand how to set the blog to private. Sure, I could have spent a while researching how to do it, but then another week would have gone by and fear would have had that much longer to take hold.

So I took the approach recommended by my husband, who is an Emergency room nurse, I ripped the band aid off in one quick tug. I went public day one.

What I am discovering now, is my blog is like a newborn. It demands immediate attention, and I am struggling juggling it with its sibling income earners, that of, reselling our cast offs, and increasing craft sales. It isn’t affecting the attention needed for its older brother “rentals” but that is because he is pretty much independent for the mean time, and it was during my last few months of parenting rental, that God had me conceive blog.

God knew, if I didn’t have a new focus once rentals was on its own, I would feel defeated in the every day life of I clean, family messes up, I clean and I cook, family eats it up, I cook. There was just something about rental. I could go over there, paint a wall, go back the next morning and WOW wall was still painted and I could move on to the next part of the project.

So that being said, right now I am loving rental, but struggling with reselling and crafts sales who seem to not understand the needs of newborn blog. They are not happy that blog is eating in to their Saturdays.

I keep reminding them blog won’t be a newborn forever, in fact it is already on a pretty good schedule. Blog gets the first few hours of the morning, and then it naps. It gets a few more moments in the afternoon, and just a few more at night.

Where the problem arises, is those morning hours are just not quite enough to get blog off the ground. Blog needs just a few more hours in the week, for me to figure out the technical side of things, and those are landing on Saturday.

So, readers,  “Selling Saturdays” will not be a piece on what I sold the previous Saturday as originally intended. Instead, Selling Saturdays will be primarily,  segments on methods of selling cast offs that have worked for me in the past. Hopefully, as newborn blog grows up a little, the segment will become more about my active selling, and new avenues I explore.

I guess it all goes back to inching forward, sometimes, you got to stall the growth in one area to inch forward in another.

How about you, do you have a few  projects on hold, while you have made another a priority?

I often wonder why God would lay it on my heart  to start writing a blog for the general public.

This is the gal who has managed to change her beloved i-touch from her content to her husbands content, and in order to undo her accidental act ended up having to erase her i-touch to factory condition.

This is the gal who just last summer got a cell phone on which she can send a text to people at rapid speed compared to her old flip phone where she simply called back whoever texted her, since it was just faster.

This is the gal who for a year would call for her children when she wanted to watch Netflix on the Wii.

This is the gal who got a new camera for Christmas but just now realized it needs a memory card to take pictures.

This is the gal who called her friend from Staples to ask what memory card she needed for said camera. Turns out, most cameras take the same style card (I know that now).

This is  the gal who is still taking pictures with her i-touch and then uploading them to Facebook and then downloading them to her computer and then up to her blog, because she has yet to get up the nerve to take  the time to figuring out how to do it with her new camera.

Yet, I do have a blog, an i-touch and a new camera, and I am willing to learn. I might be slow learning, I might make mistakes, but I am learning.

How about you, are you technically savvy? Can you learn how to operate new gadgets at lightening speed? Or are you like me, just inching forward one inch at a time?

My Dad has a green thumb. My Grandad had a green thumb. My Grandma has a green thumb. So what happened to me? That’s  the line of questioning I ask myself every August, when the garden I planted in spring should be flourishing in bright shades of green but instead it is various shades of brown.

It starts off well. With a list and a plan. With strong green baby plants from  the nursery. Like the ones in this picture.But by fall it usually ends up looking like this garden.

In which, the only things that are green are actually weeds, and nothing that I originally planted.

You see in spring my ideas are new and fresh, long forgotten is the summer of yesteryear. Then summer hits, and the swimming pools call, camping trips beckon, long bike rides whisper and then next thing I know the garden is deadly silent from great neglect.

I refuse to give up. Each year I pull out the weeds, I make a new plan and I inch forward with it. I got some fruit for my efforts this year. like this little cumber in this picture that managed to survive in the weeds.

But for the most part, the gardening season ends with me shaking my head in defeat and asking the children to go and rip out what is left while I return to my favorite line of questioning. My Dad has a green thumb. My Grandad had a green thumb. My Grandma has a green thumb. What happened to me?