The End Is Near

With three weeks left until my due date, the end of a challenging (but, thankfully, healthy) pregnancy is in sight.  I am ready to not be pregnant anymore, and hopefully ready to take on a newborn. 

This is also the beginning of the end of Fanneedoolee, as I've decided to put a little closure (or at least a hard page break) on this chapter of my life and take a rest from blogging for a while.  I've made this decision mostly from practicality - as you may have noticed, I've hardly blogged at all since taking on my new full-time ++ role as a SAHM - but also because this seems to be a good time to wrap things up.

When I started this blog, I wanted to create a snapshot of our family to preserve for Logan and Keelin to look back on someday, and I think I've done that now.  With the new baby arriving, the end of our life as a family of four (and sometimes five) is likewise near.  I realize now that I also started this blog as a way for me to feel more in touch with the part of my life from which I'd been so cut off.  When I was working and away from the house 10-12 hours per day, posting pictures of the kids and capturing special moments about our family helped me feel more connected, and I think also played a big role in my realization that I need to be with my family more right now.  Period.

Being here 24/7--and being more immersed in my family than I ever have before-- has tipped the scales away from reflecting in favor or experiencing.  I've got to spend a while walking in these shoes a bit more before I'm able pay homage to the next chapter of my/our lives with any meaningful insight, or even clever prose. 

So, I am planning to end Fanneedoolee with a final post shortly after the baby arrives, marking the ending and also the beginning of this point in the journey with a birth announcement.  (I know we'll all be excited to find out which name makes the final cut - myself included!).  I've got a few other loose ends to wrap up, and I will continue to upload pictures to my flickr photo stream, which may serve as my virtual baby book for #3!  I will also leave the site up for a bit until I figure out how to save it to a disk or migrate it to a site where it can live on indefinitely without me having to pay a monthly fee.

So, thanks again to you, dear readers, and stand by for the conclusion--I expect I'll have at least a few cliff-hangers to leave you all anxiously awaiting for the next volume:  Fanneedoolee and the Decade of Domestic Delirium, perhaps?  Or maybe Fanneedoolee and the Haunted Housewife Hollows?   Fanneedoolee and the Wickedly Winsome WalMart Shopping Spree??

Comments

[Nancy]

=(

I am glad you will still post to flicker.

The memories you are making with your children by staying home, will be held closer in the heart than those they read in a post years from now.

I hope the next three weeks fly by so we can meet Sophie Rose !

[Aunt Grace]

Wow, this comes as a shock, but then not really. I too have had no time to blog lately, and then everytime I remember, it's just too late. Good luck to you, we will miss your blog, being that we are so far away, it was our only window to view our family in OH. Keep the photos coming, we can't wait to meet little one #3. Again, thanks for the inspiration, and we'll have to see what the future holds.

[aunt sheila]

We will miss your humor and your updates on your family. We can completely understand though. We will be waiting for the newest addition and by the way what about Macy. It is different and sounds really cute with your last name. Good Luck to All of you.

[Michael]

Macy? Mother, sometimes you scare me.

Tiff - I completely understand not having enough time...my posts on CO are becoming fewer and further between. I will miss Fannee Doolee though. Your posts are always so fun to read. Good luck!

[TIff]

I think Macy is cute!

[aunt sheila]

I'm glad you think it's cute Tiffany. Sorry Mr. perfect that you don't.Sometimes you scare me.