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<p><em>Under pressure people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church, or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.</em><br />-Elsa Maxwell<em>, How to Do It</em></p></blockquote><p>Lately, this blog has been boring.</p>

<p>I admit this not to ask for your sympathy, or to have you protest to make myself feel better (though I&#39;ll admit to dreams of receiving dozens of emails along the
lines of &quot;No, no, no, you have been so consistently witty it makes me
feel inadequate!&quot;).&#0160; I do it to prove Elsa Maxwell wrong.&#0160; Some people (me!) can admit to being bores.</p>

<p>It&#39;s OK.&#0160; I know it.&#0160; </p>

<p>I had suspected as much for the past few weeks (months?) so I decided to go back and read some of my latest posts.&#0160; It was painful.&#0160; So this is an apology to all of you that keep coming back.&#0160; I don&#39;t understand it, but I thank you for doing so.&#0160; Really.</p>

<p>I think that the reason I have been so painfully boring lately is that I&#39;ve been self-conscious about blogging.&#0160; I started anonymously, just out of pure curiousity, and I learned that I love blogging along the way.&#0160; However, as this blog grew, it became more and more difficult to tell people about it because I didn&#39;t want to admit that I&#39;d been writing all this time - quite possibly about them.&#0160; So I continued anonymously, and while I thought doing so would free up my writing it eventually had the opposite effect.&#0160; Sure, at first I wrote without a care in the world, but eventually I became paranoid that someone I knew would figure out who I am and I started censoring myself.&#0160; And second-guessing myself.&#0160; And driving myself insane with worry, FOR NO REASON AT ALL.&#0160; It&#39;s not like this is a particularly saucy blog or anything like that, but I still continued to worry.&#0160; Which is stupid, but true.</p>

<p>So I&#39;m doing something about it.</p>

<p>I&#39;m taking a little break.&#0160; </p>

<p>And then I&#39;m starting over.&#0160; But I&#39;m not going anywhere.&#0160; I&#39;m staying right here.&#0160; And to prove it, I bought the <strong>www.reluctanthousewife.com</strong> domain.&#0160; (I&#39;m all growed up!&#0160; Update your bookmarks!)</p>

<p>I&#39;m going to make the site over because I&#39;m bored with the banner.&#0160; I&#39;m unpublishing the archives.&#0160; I will come back with a focus.&#0160; (I think.&#0160; Quite possibly.&#0160; I don&#39;t know!)&#0160; I will share the site with my friends and family - eventually.&#0160; Because it&#39;s what I need to do.</p>

<p>For you, who come here and read my junk and keep me going when I wonder if I should quit blogging, there should be no difference.&#0160; Except that, hopefully, I will be less boring.<br /> </p>

<p>Also, I feel like I owe you something for being so nice so here it is.&#0160; Or shall I say, here we are:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/diary/126403816/" title="Photo Sharing"><img alt="The Reluctant Housewife and The Boy" class="at-xid-6a00d8341db04e53ef0133ee2777a5970b" height="240" src="http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/6a00d8341db04e53ef0133ee2777a5970b-pi.jpg" width="228" /></a></p>

<p>(YES!&#0160; I have both a toddler AND a white couch!&#0160; What can I say?&#0160; We live on the edge.)<em></em></p>

<p><em>NOTE:&#0160; In the meantime, please check out my work-in-progress <a href="http://www.everydaytreats.com">www.everydaytreats.com</a> and tell me what you think!</em></p>
