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I FOUND MY NOTES - Blogging Blunder Fixed!


If you read my posts frequently you may have read about my blogging blunder a couple weeks ago and how I lost all of my notes from my iPod. Many of these notes contained blog post ideas and even blog posts completely written out. I was upset. No, I was furious that they just up and disappeared. I googled the problem and found that I was not alone.

Many of you commented and let me know I was not alone. I was overwhelmed at the love and support and encouragement offered by you, my friends. You lifted me up when I was down, encouraged me to keep going when all I wanted to do was quit and you prayed for me. I asked for prayer and you prayed for me. What an honor to know that fellow bloggy friends had my back and were whispering sweet prayers to Jesus - for me. I stand humbled and amazed.

When my notes disappeared I googled the problem and found several ideas for recovering them but to be honest many seemed like more trouble than they would be worth (assuming they might work) and most seemed questionable at best. My sister in law left me a comment on Instagram and said she had this happen with her notes a while back as well.  One day when she was looking around on her email account she found a folder titled "notes" and upon opening it there she found all of her missing notes. So I looked (from my iPod) and I had no folder titled notes at all. I checked all folders and boxes anyway just to be sure but found nothing. I thanked her for the idea and that was that.

Last night I finished yet another blog post on my iPod and emailed it to myself for safe keeping.  I immediatley went back to my notes to email another and they were gone AGAIN. All of them, just like the first time. Panic struck and quietly I vowed to myself that I hated Apple products and that I would never ever again use the notes on my iPod, EVER.

Back to google I went and a forum popped from my search  so I began reading. Someone experiencing the same thing as me but with their iPhone, not iPod was asking how to find their notes.  Someone suggested that they look in their email account for a folder titled, yep you guessed it, NOTES. So this time I logged into my account on my computer instead of my iPod and opened my folder file and there right before my eyes was the folder titled NOTES.  I opened the folder and found ALL of my notes from both this time and the last. All my lost lists, notes, ideas for my blog and yes even those fully typed blog posts.  Let me just tell ya that last night I was doing a happy dance!  I have no idea why this happened TWICE, but it did.  

 
God is so good to me! He gets all the Glory here. He is so much better to me than I deserve in all things.  Anyway I wanted to give an update and thank you for prayers.  I also wanted to let you know if you have ever found yourself in this position to look in your email account (logged in from a computer) and look for a folder titled "NOTES". 
 
Let me know, has this ever happened to you?







Big Blogging Blunder and An Announcement

I am writing this post the day after I realized that many of my already written blog posts are gone. GONE! I am writing this the day after because yesterday I was very upset. Not happy. Mad. Even today I am teetering on the verge of being mad again but I have just decided that "it is what it is" and it's time to move on.  Sadly.  I must move on and I refuse to allow what happened to ruin my day. 




I do not have a laptop (though I want one bad, lol) nor do I have an iPhone or iPad BUT I do have an iPod touch that I have had for a few months. I really like it. I can check my email, social media sites, browse the Internet, listen to music, take photos as well as many other wonderful things. One of my favorite features is the "notes" app. I use it often. I make grocery lists, Christmas lists, to-do lists and i also write blog posts using it.

I know to a lot of people that probably seems silly but my iPod is portable and with no lap top it helps me make the most of my idle time while waiting on my boys at their sports practices and such. I make lists of blog post ideas and I also actually type my blog posts. In fact prior to yesterday I had several lists of posts I wanted to write along with nearly 30 posts that were already written and only needed a few finishing touches.

So imagine my surprise and frustration when I opened my "notes" app while waiting to pick up my son from an after school activity and out of nearly 40 notes total only 4 appeared.  4.  And these 4 were ones that could have been deleted and I probably would have never known.  They were of little importance and from a few months back when I first got my iPod touch.  I googled this problem and apparently it has happened to a lot of people using apple devices so I caution you to beware if you also use the notes app that it could happen to you - it did to me.

I honestly felt like I got the wind knocked out of me.  I felt a little sick.  If you are a blogger you know that hours of thought, research and writing can go in to one single blog post and to think that I had so many just vanish.  I have been asked to be a contributor for two of my favorite blogs "The Purposeful Mom" and "A Heart For The Home" starting in October and I had several posts already written to be used for that as well as a list of other post ideas that I planned to write for them.  All gone. 

So although I felt like I was a little bit ahead in the blogging game and was about to get back to posting a little more regular since school has started I now am sort of back to square one.  Between losing so much of my material yesterday and the fact that when I switched the name of my blog from Jen's Journey to A Heart For My Home back in June and my blog numbers fell drastically (I assumed that most of my followers would come along with me but I was wrong) I felt like deleting my blog altogether.  My numbers have remained low since the switch with only about one third of my previous audience following me.  While I am not writing this blog to have a large following it does a blogger good to know that people are interested in what you have to say.  Receiving emails, comments on our posts and new followers is such an encouragement to a blogger.  When these things are absent, it makes us wander sometimes "what is the use?" or "why exactly am I doing this?".  I do have some brand new followers and to you I say welcome - I am so glad you are here.   And it's because of you that I will keep plugging along little by little.  It is my prayer that something I blog about will be an encouragement, inspiration or help to someone.  I also pray that God will be glorified through my writing. 

4 Bible Verses come to mind right now: 
The second half of Nehemiah 8:10 ... Do not grieve, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”

The Second half of Psalm 30:5 ... Weeping may endure for a night, But joy comes in the morning.

James 1:2-3 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;  Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

Proverbs 17:22 A merry heart does good, like medicine, But a broken spirit dries the bones.

My Prayer:

Lord Please give me strength, I definitley cried last night but am searching for my joy this morning.  This was a trial and situation that is an aggravation and I would rather have not faced but in the big scheme of life I know it is nothing and today I am counting it all joy.  Thank you Jesus for working patience in me.  Thank you for renewed Joy and now I am just gonna laugh - because sometimes that is all you can do.  In Jesus Name, Amen. 

My question to you is, have you ever experienced a blogging blunder like this? 

And also will you pray for me?  I am feeling a little discouraged right now. 

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 Click How I Found My "Notes" to read a follow up post.

My Journey Begins

About Me. 
Hi, I'm Jen.  I am a thirty something stay-at-home mom.  I have been married nearly sixteen years and I am a mother to preteen and teenage sons.  I am not perfect and definitely do not have it all together but I strive daily (well at least most days) to be and do better than the day before. 

Philippians 1:6 (Amp.) says And I am convinced and sure of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will continue until the day of Jesus Christ (right up to the time of His return), developing (that good work) and perfecting and bringing it to full completion in you. 

I am so thankful that God is still working on me and that every day I get another chance at being the wife and mom he has created me to be. 
   
The reason for my blog.
Titus 2:3-5 tells us that the older (more experienced) women are to teach the younger women how to love their husbands and children and how to take care of their homes.  I do not consider myself an older woman (lol) but I have been at this marriage and parenting thing for a while.   It is my hope that this blog will be an encouragment to you in this journey of life we are all on together.