June & July Recap: Blogging Breaks, Health Hiccups, and Finding Hope

Clare - This Is Still Me♥️
5 min readAug 28, 2024

Admittedly, I’ve been slack in my blogging. I started the year off, as I always do, with grand plans of what and how I will be this year and of course it never pans out as I imagine.

But I always find time to write when away on holiday, without the call of the washing machine, dishwasher, work or all the other daily tasks that need my attention.

This time, though, my mojo eluded me, and it wasn’t until my friend’s husband messaged me asking me to read something he’d written that I found the urge to write begin to stir again.

Feeling inspired by his words I picked up my phone to start writing again, but then I got home, got sick and I couldn’t seem to catch up with myself.

A lot has happened since I wrote a proper blog post, so I’ll start in June.

The husband planned two trips, one to Vegas for a friend’s 40th and another to Germany for the Euros. At least I would have some respite from the continuous football.

I usually look forward to the husband going away, I make plans with friends, give the house a good clean and generally enjoy some alone time. But before he was off on his first trip I found myself dreading it and I didn’t know why.

It wasn’t the fact it was vegas, it was his 3rd time going with his friends, I was just dreading being alone. My parents were away, my bestie was away, I had plans with friends but for once, I wasn’t looking…

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Clare - This Is Still Me♥️

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