12 years blogging

On this day, 12 years ago, I started blogging! It seems crazy that it’s been over a decade and I’m still here (the Elton John song “ I’m Still Standing ” runs through my mind). I always like to look back at the past year and share a little bit of how it’s going. This year I recovered from being burnt out and bringing the joy back into blogging. Before we dive in, as always, a huge THANK YOU to you for being part of the SweetPhi community. Every comment, like, share, follow, subscription, all make this possible and are so thoroughly appreciated.
If you read last years’ 11 years blogging post you might have read about the insane content schedule and pressure I had self inflicted. I was pushing to have something published every single day and it had gone from something fun I enjoyed doing to something I dreaded, like trying to feed a never ending content beast and I took a much needed step back.
I was trying to work full time, and I have 4 small kids, I was tired and burnt out to a crisp. I didn’t see it that way though and only recognized the sheer burn out months later. And it took months to draw a balance between working (I now work part time outside of the home and then the rest of the time spend with the kids!!) I’m so happy and grateful I was able to make those changes and that the blog has been able to ebb and flow with me through these changes. Some may not have even noticed a change at all because I had some help behind the scenes in the form of the sweetphi team , now only 1 
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