Why I started blogging

It is another Monday, so, once again, I am linking up with Miss Monica over at I Heart Grade 3.  This week the topic is "Why I started blogging."
I started blogging before it was a "thing."  Anyone remember the Live Journal days?  When I was in college, I posted very frequently to my Live Journal account.  It was a way to express myself and share my ideas with others, although they were really all people I knew.  I mostly took a break from that when I finished college.  Life got in the way.  After my husband became a pastor, I decided it was time again to start a personal blog.  My friends were quite far strung, and it seemed like a good way to let many people know what was going on.  However, I got busy, and the blog writing was very infrequent.  I still technically have that blog, although I don't really use it.
I started this blog for several reasons.  When I have searched for teaching blogs to read in the past, I always had a hard time finding anyone that was in a similar situation to me with a multi-grade elementary classroom.  I know it is not super common, but I also knew I wasn't the only one out there.  So, I decided to blog myself to hopefully help fellow teachers as well as provide a way for me to put my own thoughts together and think things through.  While I don't promote my products super often on here, I also wanted to use it to market myself a bit.  While that is not my primary purpose, I am not going to deny that side of the blogging as well.
I really do hope to be better.  I want to apologize for my followers for the hiatus, especially to the wonderful teacher who sought me out last August to tell me to not stop writing.  I know I did for awhile, but I hope to be regular again.  I really do appreciate all of you who read this.  And, I promise, a classroom related post is coming soon!

Check out the link-up to find some other fabulous bloggers!