I fly up to Washington early tomorrow morning! I am so glad all of the packing is over (well, my responsibilities are done, That Husband will spend the weekend finishing up) and I’m rewarding myself with a little computer break before I finish putting our luggage together for the flight.

I created a Facebook page for That Wife back in 2011, but I never did anything with it because I was blogging daily back then and I couldn’t figure out a way to generate enough content to run both the Facebook page and the blog. I’m going to change from posting on the blog daily to trying to publish higher quality content on a regular basis (3x/week ideally, though I can only keep up with 1-2x/week right now), and that means I can take all the little things that aren’t big enough or fully formed yet and post them over on my Facebook page.

Will I drop off and stop posting over there after a few weeks yet again? Maybe. I’m working on not being afraid to try new things and then admit they aren’t working for me (otherwise known as avoiding things because I’m worried about failure). For now though, I’m excited to explore this space and see if it’s a good fit for my life right now. If you’d like to join me over there I would love to have you!

I’ve had lots of meetups in the past with people I don’t know in real life. Weddingbee friends, Facebook friends, and blog reader friends. So why is it that making new friends via Instagram feels a bit strange?

It’s not strange Jenna. It’s awesome. I know this because I mentioned on one of my Instagram photos that I was itching to take pictures of someone other than my family, and a woman in the area whom I had never met before spoke up and said she would be interested in getting together so our kids could play and I could take pictures. I took her up on her offer and had a great time. And now we are meeting up at an amusement park (tomorrow) as well!

Moral of the story: Making new friends via Instagram is not weird. And I want to keep doing it.

I finished a midterm on Saturday and decided to reward myself with a little time spent sprucing up That Wife. If you’re in Google Reader, click on over to see the beautiful design How Joyful developed for me. It’s completely customized and I think the touch of pink is a good reflection of who I am (I used to sign my name Princess Jenna through high school and loved the color pink).

Joy is offering 40% OFF pre made templates from her Etsy shop with the code ‘JULY4TH’ for this week only. Maybe you’d like to give your site a summertime makeover as well?

I still have a few kinks to work out between readings and papers and midterms. Please feel free to drop by in the comments section and let me know what you think! (Including any issues you may spot while poking around.)

Formspring emailed me to let me know they’ve created a new widget, and I’m testing it out on one of my pages. Look across the top of my site and you’ll see a link that says Formspring. Click on that and you should get a box to load with a box that contains my latest public question. I thought it would be fun for me to take general questions I get in my own inbox, answer them, and then turn them back to everyone else to see what they think. You can follow me on Formspring (a question and answer site) here.

If you’re logged in to Formspring on the browser you’re using, I think you might see your homepage instead. I’m still a little confused about how this works.

I have a favor to ask. I’m going to give That Wife a makeover soon (paid for by my advertising, hooray!) and I’m wondering if you’d be interested in helping me brainstorm a new tagline. Or maybe you think I should keep it as is?

That Wife married to That Husband Living That Life

I came up with that back when That Wife was really new. I had no idea what my blog was going to be like! Even now I guess I still have a hard time describing my site. I’ll meet someone knew and they find out I have a blog and they ask, “What’s it about?”

Ummmm… me? My ideas? Pictures of my kid? Doesn’t really sound like something anyone would want to read, but obviously it’s something people like reading because you guys keep coming back each day (kudos to you for that).

I’ve created a Pinterest board where I’m collecting ideas if you’d like to check out what I’m thinking.  I’ll be using HJD Studio for the makeover, because Joy is the best!