Changes

For a few years, I have tried to share my favorite things on my blog, The Happy Idiot.  I still love sharing my life, creating content, and hearing from others that like what I have to say, but something had begun to feel different.  Through my journey with infertility and my experience with anxiety, I didn’t originally want to talk about the hard stuff.  Talking about it is very personal and usually upsetting, and it isn’t easy to deal with well-intended but unsolicited advice that inevitably follows.  I struggled for a bit with how to put something I don’t want to talk about into a place where all I do is talk about things in my life.  I decided to rebrand my blog to give my new experiences with infertility a place, because life is more than just the good recipes you post and happy things you get to write about.  A blog about my life means it’s a blog with that is true to all of my experiences, no matter how challenging.  I will still have all the staples of the old blog and all of my favorite things (coffee, nail polish, and couponing to name a few), but I look forward to providing new content and sharing my infertility journey.  I hope the shift not only gives me a place to share my story, but also can provide something comforting and relatable for couples going through the same thing.