Life, Holidays & Vlogmas Observations

So.....it's been about five months since my last blog post. Why so long, you might wonder? Before Thanksgiving my family experienced a life changing event, that really shook us. Long story short I couldn't bring myself to do this. Then, I remembered that I made a promise to myself, before any family struggle, to participate in Vlogmas 2017 on Youtube. If you don't know about Vlogmas I'll explain it. Vlogmas is a series of videos that you create daily in the month of December for a certain number of days. I really debated about doing it and ultimately decided that I didn't want to break the promise I'd made to myself and I was hoping that it would help me to get through my tough time. So, I did Vlogmas for 25 days by posting a new decorated cookie series for each day. Initially, I was very excited and felt that I was really challenging myself. However, somewhere around Day 15 I began to feel an extreme level of stress and it stopped being enjoyable. In the opinion of my sister I became quite b*****. You can fill inthe blanks on your own. It wasn't until I was editing my last two videos and came cross the above photo that I began again to feel any positive emotions about the entire experience. I looked at this photo of all of my super favorites and I was really proud of what I had accomplished. I don't know if I'll attempt Vlogmas again this year. If I do I know that I can only do about 12 days instead of 25 days. I quickly discovered that doing 25 consecutive days of creating, filming, editing and uploading whilst also living a full life was impossible for my life style. The lesson I learned from this is, it's okay to push yourself and to want to improve but it's also necessary to know when to take time for yourself when life gives you challenging moments. Sorry this one is so short, but I know that these 25 videos and random photos will do a far better job of showing you my journey than any words that I can write.

Later Days