I didn’t intend to give up blogging for Lent, but I inadvertently took a blog sabbatical for the past month. It was probably a combination of spending time on a few community activities and end-of-winter fatigue (will it ever be warm and sunny again??) that left me unmotivated to post lately.
Winter has hit me especially hard over the past couple of years. I’ve read that Seasonal Affective Disorder often affects women in their thirties. I suspect it’s a little of that in addition to adjusting to parenthood that have made recent winters a bit tougher than usual. Last winter was my first being home with a new baby and having a husband busy teaching high school and coaching speech activities in a town 25 miles away. This year was better. Since Cory’s a grad student at our local university, his schedule has allowed him much more home time, and the baby is now two years old (although, as one columnist in this month’s The Lutheran notes, “Mothers of small children are always tired.” Boy, do I know it). Still, this winter has been long, cold, and dark, and I guess I’m just not resilient enough to stave off its effects for the entire season.
