Mark All Read

It pained me greatly to do it. My finger hesitated on the mouse before giving the go-ahead to do what couldn't be undone. I wondered what I would miss...would it be a fabulous room makeover, a hilariously funny moment in parenting, or perhaps a link to another great blog I've yet to discover? I'll never know, because I did it.

I clicked on "mark all read" in my feed reader.

During a normal week, I have a little time to relax after E.B. is tucked in bed and catch up on my favorite blogs. I try to keep up with 300+ blogs and savor reading each and every one. I've tried in vain many, many times to pare this list of blogs down to a manageable number, but I just can't. Each one has sucked me in and I can't seem to part with them.

However, this has not been a "normal week". We have battled sickness, fatigue, working longer hours, schedule innteruptions galore, and the list goes on and on. And each time I opened my feed reader to catch up, the number of updates on each blog began to reach the double-digit numbers and left me overwhelmed so much that I didn't attempt to catch up because I knew I couldn't and enjoy doing it.

So, I gave myself permission to start fresh. I've actually been thinking about giving myself permission to start a lot of things fresh in my life lately and if clearing the feed reader is a small, tiny step towards that, then yay me.