Why am I blogging again?

I used to blog. Quite often in fact. I started to do this one rainy afternoon when my daughters were home sick, I was home bored and it seemed like something that would give me a break between bouts of barfing and calming down the girls. That first blog was all about the kids. It was "Two Girls From Guangdong" because both my girls were adopted from Guangdong Province in China, Annie in 2005 at age 4 1/2, and Bethany in 2007 at age 4 1/2. My husband Charlie and I thought we were done adopting (to be more accurate, he KNEW we were done and I HOPED we weren't done), when a little boy on our adoption agency's list of children suddenly needed a family. Within weeks of coming home with Bethany, we had started the paperwork for Jack. He was just over 5 when he came home in November 2008, 3 years and 1 day after we came home with Annie. Then we were done. House too small, bank account too small, stores of parental energy too small. So that first blog was about the girls, then our journey to get Jack and continued on with the adventures of a couple becoming first time parents at age 47 and raising three energetic kids. Gradually I stopped posting...starting putting more stuff on Facebook in the limited time I had between a more than full-time job and home responsibilities. So now I am blogging again, but on a new subject, though the kids and the job and the house and our life are still at the heart of it all. Now, though, things in my life are done through and in spite of the pain and difficulties caused by a chronic illness. In my case... rheumatiod arthritis. so this is place for me to write what's going on with the RA and what I am thinking about and how the treatment is going (or not going). The immediate inspiration for this was a bunch of blogs I looked at last night-they were declared the best blogs of 2012 for RA. Reading them made me realize I missed writing, even if this is really just for myself. Wow, there are a lot of me and my and I in this post.....I think there will be a lot of editing and re-editing as this goes along