Something New
A Break From The Norm & A Big Project | No. 014
If you’re reading this, you likely made your way to Just Write Mama after reading some of my writing on Facebook (likely) or Instagram (less likely). You possibly landed here randomly through Substack itself or some oddball other way (there’s a few of you!)
I’ve mainly written about our family’s five-year journey (5 years!) of foster care, adoption, and now biological parenthood. Facebook was my main outlet for these stories for a long time, and then in April of this year I switched over to Substack. If you’re reading along, you’ve probably followed our family through a lot of kids, transitions, ups, downs, and comings and goings. It’s the nature of being a foster/adoptive family, and I’ve loved processing the journey through writing.
Processing this journey through writing has given our family more than I could have ever imagined: community, encouragement, kind comments, support, prayer, meal trains, toys, clothes, love - you name it and someone has probably been a part of the foster care world along with us in one of those ways after reading about our journey online. I can’t and won’t ever take that for granted. It’s given me a way to sift through big feelings and situations that have no rhyme or reason. It’s been a way to preserve a thousand memories I otherwise would have forgotten. The best and hardest times of my life have been sorted out one typed word at a time. To say it’s been a lifeline for my soul is not hyperbole.
I’m not going to stop writing about this world that I care so much about.
That being said, I have a Big Project I am working on, and the Big Project is centered on the topics I’ve focused on for the past five years. I want to devote all of my extra writing energy to that project for the rest of 2024.
Okay, but what does that mean?
If I’m writing about foster care, adoption, motherhood, parenting, etc. these next few months it’s probably going to be within my Big Project. *(Big Project to be announced in 2025!)* Here on Substack, I’m going to take a few months to pause from those topics and instead post about other non-related topics outside of my norm (see post No. 013 for one example). My hope is that my energy and passion and love for writing about my normal topics will funnel into my Big Project, making it all that much better.
So, if you’re following along for those topics specifically and that’s what brought you here, don’t fret. Posts on those topics will be back (along with the Big Project) in 2025. Until then, I hope you follow along for some other musings, observations, and random things.
Thanks for being here. It will always floor me that you are choosing to be here and choosing to read my words for a few minutes with every other app, website, subscription, channel, podcast, video, reel, article, and everything else under the sun vying for our attention. I appreciate you.
I always love to hear from real life people reading these real posts (bots, AI, and trolls stay away!). If you’re so inclined, comment, click a heart, send me an email or DM, or share this publication with another real life human.
Whatever it is, I’m excited!
Way to present a cliffhangar😃🤔