🎉 Celebrate Good Times ~ Sharing some Honesty 🎬

Let's celebrate this week and Spring season by starting off with some honesty...

When I first created this blog, I had SO many post ideas and couldn't wait to share ALL of them! 💗 This blog never seemed like a chore or something I HAD to do. It was something I WANTED to do. 💟 

However, lately, I've been in a bit of a slump when it comes to feeling the joy I used to have when creating these posts. 😢 My goal for this blog was never to gain a bunch of followers and have a TON of people reading my posts. As I type this now, the only people that actually read these posts are my sisters and myself. 💓 But, that is actually how I want it to be. When I write these posts, I get excited because I know my sisters will read them and get excited about something I've worked hard on! Just like I get excited to see my sister Alyssa's creativity when I read her blog! *Back To Disney* 💕

I view this blog as something I LOVE doing because I know my sister's and I will get to have fun looking back on ALL the nostalgia I try to put in these posts! 💗 Also, I find this blog to be my own little personal diary of things I NEVER get to share anywhere else. For example, when is the last time I got to tell people that I think "Can I Have This Dance" is the BEST love song scene from a DCOM? And, when is the last time I got to tell people how I researched the meanings of different flowers and matched them with scenes from different Disney movies and series without sounding crazy? 💞 I get to share ALL of that here by creating ALL of these posts! 💗

So, you might be wondering, where am I going with all of this? 💓 Well, here's the thing, I took this past week to try and imagine what quitting this very blog would be like. That's why there wasn't a post yesterday when there normally would have been one. Here's what I took from this past week...

❤ Not creating posts for this blog felt weird and almost like there was a void I tried to fill by doing other things I enjoy, but just ended up feeling unproductive. 

❤ I can balance creating posts for this blog and spending time with my family, which was a struggle for me and one reason why I wanted to quit. But, there is a balance and I think I've found out how to juggle doing the things I love to do independently and doing the things I love to do with my family. 

❤ This blog is still something I LOVE doing and it doesn't have to be perfect. I can have spelling errors and ramble to where my thoughts don't make sense. It's okay because this blog ultimately is for myself and I have gotten way past the "I have to be perfect" stage in my life. There's too much of that in real life, I don't need to bring that mindset to this blog when this is a space for me to be creative and carefree. 

❤ Even while trying to "stop" creating blog posts, I couldn't help but create them anyways. 

❤ Creative writing is one of my biggest passions and getting to type out my thoughts and opinions on different things is almost therapeutic in a way. 

❤ If I'm not "feeling" it one week when it comes to creating posts, then it's okay to take a break. 

❤ Sometimes it's certain post ideas that put me in a slump. For example, I LOVE ranking songs and episodes along with everything in between. However, sometimes I'm not "feeling" the whole rankings vibe. 💗 In my last post, I had a hard time trying to create the perfect list of my most favorite to least favorite Rocky outfits. So much so, that it took some of the fun out of creating the post. I really just wanted to share Rocky's floral outfits without the stress of ranking them. 

See the word I just used? ↑ Stress. This blog should never have to be stressful. And, I now see that I was the one beginning to make it that way, but I've learned now that I don't care if my posts are messy or all over the place, as long as I'm stress-free, then that's all that matters. 💕

So, basically, I had to sit back and take a look at why I was starting to lose that joy when it came to creating things for this blog. 💓 I still LOVE creating posts and do not see myself quitting this blog anytime soon, considering I tried for a week and failed. 💗

But, I have found that my posts might look a little bit different sometimes and that's okay. 💓 My next post is another "lookbook" post and this time I'm not going to actually rank the outfits. I'm going to have it as a true "lookbook" and not a ranking. 💟

I still LOVE ranking other things, though! So, there will still be rankings on this blog. I'm giving myself the freedom of just posting what I want when I want and how I want, which is exactly how it was when I first started creating posts for this blog. 💓

One last thing, though!

As you know, at the end of all of my posts, I put a quote I created when I first started this blog. It is...

Don't forget to celebrate each day because each day is a memory in the making. 

That quote means a lot to me. It was another thing I sat back and really looked at this past week. I asked myself if all the time I spent doing this blog took away from me making memories each day away from my computer screen. 💓 The answer... 

Balance. I've created so many memories just by creating these posts and sharing them with my sisters. I get to look back and read a post and remember exactly what I was doing and what was happening in my life when I wrote it. But, balance is key. I've also learned how to close my laptop and spend time away from creating these posts. 💓 

It's all about balance. And as I learn how to balance everything in my life more efficiently, this blog helps me to remember to celebrate each day...

Because each day is a memory in the making. 💟