Big changes coming

I started this blog almost six years ago. Back when I started, I wanted to have a place to share my pictures and tell people about my life. Fast forward a couple years, and I decided the name I had chosen was too childish. So I changed it from The Bubblegum Ballerina to Ordinary Girl, Extraordinary Father and I started sharing a lot more of my writing. Fast forward to last January where I became very dissatisfied with my blog. I began to pray about why I felt so unsettled about it. I really feel that God told me I had the wrong mindset about my blog. It was all "me" focused, and not outward focused. So I worked on it and finally came to a decision.

To really have a blog outward focused, I want to start over. 

I have loved this corner of the internet for six years, and it was a hard decision to decide to move. It's scary for me to think of completely starting over with followers and a new type of content. But I know it's the right thing for me to do. 

So what will this new blog be like? 

Well, for one, it's named after me. Yup, I went all boring and just slapped my name on it. Not only is that good for simplicity's sake (No getting tired of the name), but also it will give me a base if I decided to be a professional and want a website.

My goal for the blog was to be a comfortable space where people would feel like they didn't have to  'clean up' to leave a comment. So yeah, it's got the ".blogspot.com" part at the end of my URL. It's not a professional design. The photos on my "About me" pages were taken by me. Because I'm a messy person, I don't want to feel like I have to be all formal with y'all on that blog. It makes me so happy because it's purple, grey and white. It's got flowers and swirly fonts. All things that just make me happy.

The content of that blog is going to be different, but not completely. I'm going to be focusing more on diving into discussions on my faith, and my actual writing process. I will be slowing way down on how many blog tours I am part of, and "filler" posts like tags and the like. Also, I have made the decision to slow down how much I post my poetry.

So yeah, that was a huge info dump. I'm still setting up the blog, so I'm not quite ready to give y'all the link, but it will be coming soon! 

This was my six hundred'th blog post, and it feels fitting that it would be the beginning of saying goodbye to this blogspot.

So what are y'all's thoughts on this?