every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

i have always loved creeping on reading blogs. friends' blogs. celebrity blogs. people i don't know, and don't know how i found their blog, blogs. for some reason, i enjoy reading about other people's lives; but, i've never felt inclined to have others read about my life and what i'm doing each day.


i began my mom's online journal/blog through caringbridge.com on may 26, 2010, after my mom and family received the worst news of our lives. journaling on caringbridge was not only a convenient way to inform all our family and friends on mom's condition, but also a therapeutic outlet for me to vent about taking care of my mom during her final months and moments. after 143 journal entries and 7 months of chronicling my mom's diagnosis, courageous battle, and untimely death from colon cancer, i wanted to continue to express my feelings to my family, friends and faithful readers who followed along on mom's journey. i am ready to move on from mom's caringbridge site, and hope everyone who read caringbridge will join me on my new adventure of "blogging." i figured the new year was a good time to begin my blog. 


it makes sense that most people look forward to a new year, hoping to find closure from the previous year. maybe they are ready to be done with a job, relationship, or bad habit, and feel a new year is the time to make changes. for me, this new year has brought bittersweet feelings. while i am excited to make personal changes and goals in the new year, i am surprisingly sad to see 2010 go. i figured i would want to be done with the past year, and all the heartache it brought our family, but then i realize 2010 was the last year i spent with my mom. i always try to remind myself that mom wouldn't want me, or any of us, to sit around moping and feeling sorry for ourselves, but if she were in my position i think she'd agree that's easier said than done!


with so much to look forward to, here's to a happier, healthier and brighter year!