did you miss me?

3 months is such a long time. It feels weird to attempt to come back from such a long "blog vacation", but I guess that's what I'm going to do.

It might be awkward, guys.
Love me through it.

I want to blog about things outside of my kids, which I haven't done since...before I had kids. I want to talk about everything, not just one thing. I'm a mom, but that's not all there is to me, you know? I enjoy painting, fashion, baking + cooking, and have recently started working on my health + fitness. But since having kids, I have put basically all of my interests on the back burner. I just don't make time for those things. It's not the kids' fault, but mine. I guess I hope that blogging more, and about more than motherhood, will help me to pursue these interests? I just know that I don't want to let myself go. I don't want my kids to grow up not knowing who I am outside of their mom.
I want to have passions that I share with them, things that we may eventually enjoy together. (Okay, I'm starting to sound all mom-ish again already. It's just going to happen sometimes, let's be real.)

Hopefully you guys know what I mean, though.

Basically, I just want to get back to the title of this blog. "LYDS Was Here."