Sherlock Holmes

Being always up on the latest news and trends as I am,
(cough, cough)
I didn't even know what a blog was when I first
discovered one. At our old house, as we were making
plans for this house, I was searching for pictures of
real kitchens for inspiration as I worked on the design
of my current kitchen and I came across a blog.
It's one of the ones currently listed on the right.
It's not some amazing, award-winning blog.
But the author of it is a sweet woman who I feel like
I know even though I rarely comment on her blog
and we have only communicated with each other
.....mmmm, once, maybe twice.
But you know how the blog world is.
You are looking into some one's life
(as much as they show you)
and you kind of feel like you know them.

There was this other blog that I found
back when I first discovered the blog world
(just call me Christopher Columbus)
and it was one of my favorites. I loved the
decorating style this woman had. I loved her style in
her wardrobe. I just loved reading everything she wrote
and I knew if I knew her in real life, we would be friends.
Buddies. Kindred spirits.
And then it seemed like she was headed into
a tough time in her life (she didn't exactly spell it out),
and suddenly the blog just stopped.
I checked it faithfully, but she didn't write.
I was so sad when I went to check on it one day
and even the old posts were gone.
The whole blog was gone.
But today for some reason I decided to google her.
I googled everything I could think of and,
lo and behold, I found her.
She had moved her blog and slightly altered the name.
She had had a long absence in writing
where she sold her home and moved and had a baby.
Oh, yeah. Busy mom. I totally understand why
she had no time to blog. So I caught up as much
as she had written, but even her last post on that new blog
was almost a year ago. I hope she's not MIA again.
I am just so happy to know that she is okay.
When her first blog disappeared, it was right after
she had announced that she was expecting,
and I remember wondering about her baby and praying
that everything was alright, that her absence was not
due to some tragedy in her life.
I felt like I had solved some big mystery or something.
Hooray for me.
I found my lost blogger.