New Year, New Changes

Happy New Year to you all! I hope 2015 is treating you well and, if you're in my neck of the woods, I hope you're staying warm. It's 9 degrees outside right now with a windchill of -17. I'm happy to be inside!

I left you in November with a few thoughts on what I was most thankful for and a notice that I was planning to take the month of December off from blogging to spend time with family and friends and truly enjoy the holiday season. That break was a blessing! I hope that you all had a wonderful holiday season as well.

Taking some time away from this blog allowed me to realize how much of a chore it had become in my life. I started this blog with an excitement about writing and sharing my love of organization with all of you. As the year went on, I cut back more and more on my posting schedule until later in 2014 when I was posting just once a week. Trying to balance a full-time job, upkeep on our home, our strict budget, and this blog was wearing on me and I felt like the quality and enthusiasm of my posts was dwindling. I promised myself that I'd take December off and not really think about my busy to do schedule. 

Once we rang in 2015, I sat down to focus my goals for the year and think about what was really important to me. Spending quality time with my family, supporting my Mister through another year of Master's classes, and taking time to enjoy the little things won out. I don't want to make it sound like I don't enjoy the time I spend here in this space, because that is certainly not true. I love sharing organizational tips and tricks, projects around our home, and just life updates in general. Even more, I love your comments, messages, and social media follows. That makes my decision to step back even further that much more difficult. 

I'm not really sure what the future of Open Concept Organizing looks like and I'm trying not to worry about it too much either. I'm content with taking things day by day. I plan to keep my Facebook page up and running - sharing organizing articles and blog posts from other bloggers around the world wide web. But beyond that, the future is unknown.

What I do know is that I love and appreciate all of you and thank you for your support over the last year. The blog will stay active so all past posts will remain available, with one small change. Just this week, the web address of the blog changed. To find me, you'll need to visit www.openconceptorganizing.blogspot.com. The old link will no longer work (www.openconceptorganizing.com). You may have to update your bookmarks to reflect this change. 

I wish you all a very blessed 2015!