Why blog?

I guess reasons for blogging are many. I think a lot ... it has its gifts and yet it has its draw backs. I have been told journaling helps with all the chatter in one's brain. I have no adult in my house with me - it's just me and the kids. So, I get lonely for connection. Something I ponder is will I find connection about something mutually interesting, not just about my kids, what is important to the other person. All the married years were about him, his family, my house. My house and my pets were all that were mine. I enjoyed being with the pets and I enjoyed the house as a canvas for creativity. I created around raising the kids once I had them. When the family was not angry or hurt with anyone and not keeping silent and ostracizing in the anger and hurt because talking it out just was not done, I spent a lot of my time doing small things for the others .... visiting and digging in the garden with someone - his/her garden, framing a picture and wrapping it with a few sprigs of fresh flowers and throughly enjoying delivering it and seeing joy given. I wonder what I will fill my time with when my children are on their own.