I officially launched Ideals to Life several weeks ago. This blog has been on my heart for months now and it is thrilling to see it come to life before my eyes.
But I have a confession to make.
After months of dreaming, brainstorming, designing and writing, I realized that I was acting in contradiction with the very heart of the blog: I was waiting to launch until it was perfect.
So what did I do? I confessed to my husband and friends, we all rolled in laughter, I gave myself a week to launch, for better or worse, and now here we are. I do not have my ideal two weeks of drafts written and ready to roll out, I do not yet have an “About me” page to tell you who I am, I do not have a good portrait to post on the “About me” page, I did not have Google Analytics running on the site for most of the first week, I have not yet created the category description page like I had planned, my personal blog idea (what you are reading now) was just beginning to develop, and my favorite camera lens is in currently being repaired (after my 1yo pulled my camera off of a chair and it did a face plant on the floor) thus greatly limiting my ability to take new photographs for the blog.
But here I am, with all my imperfections.
The purpose of having my personal blog here is to remind you, and to remind me, that life is messy. The application of ideals in our life is not to create, or even portray, a perfect life. It is simply to improve upon ourselves, to grow, to enhance the life of our family and to seek God. I hope that through my posts you learn to love the imperfections in your own life…and maybe even laugh at them.