I've made the decision.  I'm moving in a new direction and starting a brand-spanking-new site.

I've been struggling with the decision for weeks.  Not the decision to start a new site, that I've been sure of for awhile.  Sure, I can make An American Girl more general and less Vienna-focused all the time, but the truth is that I can't send this blog out far and wide because there are many people who don't know, who I don't want to know, about Vienna yet.  So, I can't post this on Facebook or send out without worrying about who's going to find it.

I have been struggling with the decision about what to do with An American Girl.  I thought maybe that I could just have two blogs.  Yea.  That's not going to happen.  Then I thought that I should at least keep this going while getting the other up and running.  Unfortunately, I began to feel so overwhelmed and a little guilty about the whole thing that I wasn't working on either!

Just the other day I thought, you know what, this is supposed to be FUN.  Not a burden.  And in that moment I knew.  An American Girl is going to take a break for awhile, at least from this blog.  This is not to say that I won't bring it back when we get closer to our move to Vienna.  I might just do that.  But in the meantime, I'm taking a different approach.

I can't share the site details with you yet, but if you check back in a couple weeks or so, I'll post the link.  And for those of you with whom I've connected via your blogs, I'll send along the new site as soon as I can.  For those of you who simply pop by to read An American Girl every now and again, I thank you ever so much for following along and do hope I can bring you along to my new virtual playland when the time comes.

Danke shoen & Auf Wiedersehen
Caroline
An American Girl