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You are here: Home / All Posts / Return to the Mothership

Return to the Mothership

Published July 19, 2019. Last updated November 16, 2019 by Liz. This post may contain affiliate links.

I’ve waited a long time to write this post. For the past three years I’ve been thinking about re-starting the blog, but haven’t been able to fully commit to it. It took me that long to feel like writing again after my mother passed away. But I have missed it and now the time is right to get up and going again.

A Mothership Down is back in action, and Liz 2.0 is happy to be here! 

(I don’t totally know what this newer model of Liz has to offer, but presumably there have been some upgrades made in the past three years. I look forward to discovering what those might be.)

If you haven’t been closely following my life since the blog left off – which, first, RUDE. Haha just kidding I’m going to assume most of you have not been following my life. If you have, please note that I have been VERY TIRED and that is reflected in my wardrobe and hairstyle.  Anyway, here’s a summary:

I’ve had two more kids. That totals three now which I discuss here. It is, to put it in mathematical terms, a shit ton of kids. It’s way more than I had before. Anyway, here they are all as babies:


Nolan (left), Thomas (top right), Ani (bottom right)

I’m including this visual so that you will see that you haven’t really missed all that much, on account of all of my children being exact replicas of each other aside from some slight variation in genitalia, which was to be expected when I found out I was having a daughter.

Otherwise, the same.

The kids are now 5, 2, and 5 months old. Those ages, when being managed all at the same time, are….challenging. Parenting requires a whole set of skills that I don’t necessarily possess in spades. I have some skills, of course. But certainly not all the skills that I *believe* are posted in what I imagine to be a very lengthy (and often unappealing!) job description.

Setting up activities with friends? Nailing it. Setting up arts and crafts at home? Well I’m not sure how I am at this because I have literally never once attempted it. I don’t think setting up crafts is in my “zone of genius,” an idea that I heard about from The Parenting Junkie and have clung to religiously because it really speaks to my need to not do crafts.

Anyway.

I’ve also moved into a new house, in the same town. I have been decorating and renovating like a complete madwoman and I’m showing signs of an addiction to Facebook Marketplace which I attribute partly to the time I have to scroll through FB while I’m nursing the baby, and partly to the fact that I have some pathological need to bring old and kind of dirty things into the house when I feel they are a bargain. 

I’m not totally sure what to tell you about the blog moving forward, except that, while it will involve my kids a bit, it won’t be about them. Nolan is getting older and the others will get older (all at the same rate of speed, that’s science). And I want to respect that. But I do enjoy writing about parenthood and the related topics of home and family. I want to continue to write humor and, sometimes, serious stuff too. And ideally this blog will become a resource for parents like me – who need a laugh and who also need help navigating this rewarding, demanding, often all-encompassing task of raising our children.

I’m hoping to strike a nice balance here.

People have been asking me for the last three years if/when I’m going to start writing again, so I hope this development pleases many of you! If not, well, no worries about that either. I’m looking forward to reconnecting with old friends here and making some new ones.

Welcome back! Is that weird to say to myself? Eh well.

Welcome back, me!


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Comments

  1. Elizabeth Lindemann

    July 19, 2019 at 3:33 pm

    OH DEAR LORD YES I’VE BEEN WAITING THREE YEARS FOR THIS! Welcome back!!

    Reply
    • Liz

      July 19, 2019 at 4:02 pm

      Haha thanks! I like to create a looong period of suspense.

      Reply
  2. Tonje

    July 19, 2019 at 3:39 pm

    Welcome back!

    Reply
    • Liz

      July 19, 2019 at 4:04 pm

      Thank you! Glad to be back 🙂

      Reply
  3. Cassandra Halloran

    July 19, 2019 at 6:02 pm

    So happy to have you back, Liz. I really enjoyed your blog. Congrats on the newest little! I missed that somehow.

    Reply
    • Liz

      July 19, 2019 at 8:14 pm

      Thanks Cassandra! I snuck this last baby past lots of people ?

      Reply
  4. Mer

    July 19, 2019 at 7:57 pm

    I am very excited about this! Welcome back! Now I will investigate why I was not immediately notified when this new post went up… I have a (admittedly possibly expired?) subscription dammit!

    Reply
    • Liz

      July 19, 2019 at 8:04 pm

      Ha! It’s because I didn’t get the email out to subscribers yet! I thought Friday night was a bad time to send email, so I was going to wait until Monday. My bad!

      *This delay is also partly due to the fact that I kind of forget how my blog email service works. I have a lot to re-figure out! I’ll get it sorted out though. You’re a VIP reader Mer!

      Reply
  5. Adrienne

    July 19, 2019 at 9:51 pm

    I just caught up on a few of your older posts. I’m sorry to read about your mom. At 27 I lost my mom to cancer. She was my Rock.
    Your writing made me sob. As I read I realized that my mom was kind of the same (feeding all our friends and our house being the cool, stable and mentally adjusted parents house) and I also realized that I wish I could write and that I could have memorialized her as well as you did your mom.
    Thank you for sharing and always know that you are helping others through things with all that you share. Even 3 years after the fact… Hugs ?

    Reply
    • Liz

      July 19, 2019 at 9:56 pm

      Adrienne, thank you for this comment. I’m so sorry about your mom. It’s so so hard! I’m glad you saw your own mom in my post about mine. I bet they would both be happy that this is how we remember them.

      Reply
  6. Sophis

    July 19, 2019 at 9:58 pm

    Welcome back! What a treat to see you in my inbox again. I’ve added a kid too- looking forward to navigating it together.

    Reply
    • Liz

      July 19, 2019 at 10:01 pm

      Thanks and congratulations! Glad to be well received in your inbox 🙂

      Reply
  7. Jacqui Granfield

    July 19, 2019 at 10:03 pm

    I’m so happy you are feeling up to writing again! I look forward to reading more posts!!

    Reply
    • Liz

      July 19, 2019 at 10:09 pm

      Thanks Jacqui!

      Reply
  8. Gretchen Tsoutsouris

    July 19, 2019 at 10:25 pm

    So happy your back!! Miss you ?

    Reply
    • Liz

      July 19, 2019 at 10:32 pm

      We should get the kids together next week!

      Reply
  9. Deb Atwood

    July 19, 2019 at 10:44 pm

    Delighted to hear this news. Someday I will figure out how to meet these three lucky kids.

    Reply
  10. Betsy Higgins

    July 20, 2019 at 12:19 am

    I’ve been waiting!! Love you and your blog!

    Reply
    • Liz

      July 20, 2019 at 10:13 pm

      I’m glad I have such patient readers 🙂 Thanks Betsy!

      Reply
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