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Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Hi, I'm New Here...

My name is Madeline McDonough, and I've wanted to start my own blog for some time now. Summer is warming up and vacations are being planned, and I'm realizing the importance of my new status: Freshman. It means I'm growing up, and I'm not going back to Middle School. What better way to celebrate this new chapter of my life than to document it here?

Honestly, coming up with a blog title was harder than unclogging writers block. I thought of many obnoxious names (Dramadyc, for example) before begging my Dad for assistance. Very quickly he replied, "Adventures in Somnabulism". I thought it sounded really cool, but had no idea what somnambulism even was. Wikipedia told me that it simply meant "Sleepwalking". This only made me even more confused. I don't sleepwalk, though there is nothing wrong with it if you do, dear reader (I've always wanted to give it a try). 

What Dad said next made such perfect sense I stopped trying to come up with punny titles at once.
"You are a kid and don't have a lot of control over your life... You kinda just go where life takes you". 

We really are all sleepwalkers in life's dream, aren't we? So wherever life takes me next, I'll be able to take you with me, reader. Enjoy the ride! 

Yours, 
Madeline 

(P.S.)

If my wonderful friend Sadie Jane hadn't read this first, you would have wondered what I meant by saying "I don't sleepspealk"...check out her fantastic blog, Freckles in Fashion, here!