Good morning!
I’m flying back to the city this morning after a quick weekend trip back to Indy. Our two college friends got married in Fort Wayne and my twin brothers turned 29! And prior to leaving New York, Nick turned 26 on Friday so the weekend was full of celebrations! Indiana will always be so dear to me, and even though I was only home for 48 hours it felt like so much longer. My whole family being together is rare these days so when we are it’s so, so sweet. Momma Coale cooked a surf n’ turf feast and my brother baked a chocolate cake that was just as amazing as you’d imagine.
Backing up, we celebrated Nick’s 26th birthday with a surprise dinner on Thursday with close friends atAZerza and then at Kings County Distillery in Brooklyn on Friday afternoon. I’m usually a wine gal, but Nick is totally into whiskey and seeing and hearing about the history of whiskey making in New York was super cool. And that chocolate whiskey, swoooooon. Then I flew home Friday evening to Indianapolis, drove up to Fort Wayne Saturday morning for Rachel and Stephen’s wedding and then came back early Sunday morning to celebrate my twin brother’s 29th birthday and now I’m on a flight back to New York City this morning. Such a fun weekend with people I love so much! I have two exams this week and then will be traveling + going to another wedding this weekend so I’m just taking things day by day.
I feel like this summer has been crazy in a such a good way, but so much of me just wants it to slow down. But knowing that it isn’t slowing down anytime soon, I’ve been trying to just do the best I can and try [try is the key word!] to prioritize and do what matters most.
I know I’ve been absent around these parts. I’ve been totally flaky and inconsistent with the blog and even though I have plenty of reader stories to be posting to keep the blog updated, I also don’t want to just be posting guests posts all the time because that seems like a cop out. Does that make sense or am I just being silly? Like, I want you all to be getting original content too and I want it to be quality content that is worth reading. YOU are the ones that make this blog what it is and I always want this space to serve YOU.
So I guess I’m just at this weird place where I don’t know what this blog will look like right now. And I don’t want to just post “Oh, life is busy so I’m so sorry I’ve been absent!” I feel like a broken record. Because life is busy, but it’s going to stay busy and everyone is busy. And I hate the word busy.
If I’m truly honest with my heart, I just haven’t had the same passion to get behind my keyboard and let the words spill out like I used to. I’m so grateful Nutshell is thriving and I’m finding myself so much more pulled towards engaging with women face to face. I think the internet is amazing in how it can form community, allow us to connect with others, and create influence and that is such a beautiful thing. But right now in life, I find my heart wanting to invest in conversations more than written words. In the past, that’s looked different to where writing has been so life giving and all I’ve wanted to do is write to you guys. So now that I’m just blabbering, I say all that because I want to continue to write this blog and pour into this space, I’m just not sure what that looks like.
Between studying for the NCLEX, school, Nutshell, email, training for the NYC marathon, and TAing a Physical Assessment lab there just aren’t enough hours in the day. And I don’t want my life to be all work and school and for me to feel like a hot mess 24/7.
So do I want to keep giving you guys quality posts. Absolutely. I have so many post ideas written down, but making them come to fruition is where I’m having trouble. So my plan is to take the summer to step back from the blog and write when it’s on my heart to write. I think taking the pressure off myself to post 3x a week and keep up with comments and social media and all of that will make a huge difference. To let myself breathe a bit. Nutshell is so, so important to me and my clients are such a priority that doing Nutshell well and this blog well just isn’t possible along with everything else.
So I’ll be posting for sure, I’m just not sure how often. But you will still of course find me all over social media so I’m not disappearing! I want to keep doing videos, posting about body image/nutrition/food, and doing life posts too, I just have to find a new rhythm in which to do that.
And because I’ve gotten plenty of requests about Nick, ya’ll might hear about that soon too 🙂
Have a fabulous week!
I love your posts Robyn, even if they’re just check-in posts or updates about life. In my opinion, those are the most fun to read anyways. I think your readers would agree that you’re at such an interesting cross section of your life right now, that that is what we want to hear about – how you’re balancing it all, how being a new RN is, your social life, what you’re doing to enjoy NYC in the summer, what you do in your free time (events, friends etc.). It’s the human interest piece that your audience probably appreciates more than you think. Keep doing what you’re doing – we love your blog!