Finding Work Me Again After Five Years of Quiet
I have to laugh at myself for starting this post. I would have never imagined that going somewhat silent in 2020 would find me still here in 2025, still finding work me again. Five years! And a few posts similar to this one. Again, laughter and shaking of the head. I can’t hardly believe it myself. So what is different now? Where do I go? How do I pick myself back up? The real bottom question: Do I even want to?
There are so many questions and few answers, but I’ll do my best to share what I am thinking about working on the blog and social channels to find work again.
Finding Work Me Again
A long time ago, I felt like I was working and contributing. While work was never guaranteed, and I never knew which month would be better than the other, I was getting work. I was getting paid to tell my story, to share our lives. I felt good about being a stay-at-home wife who dabbled in the blogging world, learning more and gaining more year after year. Most importantly, I felt valued.
2020 comes barreling in…
Then along comes 2020 and throws every single one of us on our butts. Wondering what the heck was going on in the world. Campaigns stopped. Shifted. Paused. We waited on bated breath to see what would happen next. Would we be okay? What next?
While 2020 paused the world and shifted blogging/social sharing for us, it wasn’t until the following year that our world would move and rock us to our core.
Along comes 2021…
Little did we know, at the end of 2020, a tiny seed was planted, and I thought I was dying. I believed, thoroughly, that I had cancer, and this was the end for me. Remember, I was 41, and the idea that I could be pregnant seemed nearly impossible. No way. Much more likely, I finally had one of my worst fears come true.
Find out that Little Lily was on her way, no cancer, on our February ultrasound appointment (I didn’t believe the tests before actually seeing her dance on the ultrasound).
We are facing a significant change that we were not expecting. But wait, says 2021, there is more!
Our current house in Washington was put entirely into our names during this time.
By the time June comes around, I am very, very pregnant and have to do weekly appointments because of supposed high blood pressure, which I didn’t have. Then we got the phone call that my Mom was taken away in an ambulance. It was not looking good. So we try to figure out what is going on 8 hours away. We make a couple of trips over and back, then lose my Mom in July (a month before Lily was to be born).
As we prepare to have Lily, we must figure out Mom’s house in Idaho. Lily makes her sweet appearance in August, as planned. Thankfully, Jason had paid leave for Lily’s arrival, making visiting family and figuring out the Idaho house a bit easier.
Our 2021 was not easy.
2022 and onward…
Life since 2022 hasn’t been bad, but it’s been much shifting and learning. Initially, we were unsure if the Idaho house was mine, but we found out it was. We went from owning zero homes to owning two in a year.
I’ve tried to find my writing fingers and feet again over these years, without much success. I mean, I get it. My blog and social media have been so quiet over the years that it’s hard for businesses to want to work with me.
This year, 2025, feels different, though. My mind feels more focused, and I feel more like myself most of the time. Though I am still tired a lot of the time, balance is finding me again, it seems.
I am hopeful…
While we started 2025 by losing our baby girl, Roxy, we knew it was coming. 2025 feels like a fresh slate, and I am working to tackle it and make it successful.
I already feel like I have been okay about getting new posts up, not as much as I should be, but it’s been something, and I am happy with my progress, no matter how little it is.
So here we go, dusting off Angie’s Angle (and the socials) to hopefully be seen and get my groove back.
Let’s do this! Let’s get to work finding work for me again—with your help, of course. Without you all, I am nothing. So, thank you for reading! Let me know what you want to see, and I will do my best to share it all here or on social media!
Mwah!
