Without Further Ado...

The time has come, friends. 

After seven and a half glorious, life-changing, big, BIG, years, my little blog is off to play porch-side bingo and drink her gin-and-tonics.

That's right, all - Breakfast at Target is retiring.

It's a decision not made lightly; but after a few months of discovering just how much the voice here has changed, it's time to let her slide peacefully into the capsule that was our awkward chapter between college and the getting to the coast. 

And she has served me so well. She's collected some of my biggest moments and experiences. She's taken some of my most important conversations with people and put them in a place for me to find when I needed to remind myself of it. She was teacher and uplifter of sorts - by having a place to write and knowing there was an audience, as small as it might be, I was able to sort out feelings and learnings through the filter of the interwebs. She never judged as I sat at my computer, whether in the dark shadows of a library with a giant coffee or in my oversized underpants with a bottle glass of cheap merlot. She gave me a space, safe and small and familiar, to be with my thoughts no matter where I found myself.

While the last 7.5 years have not been without their tough times, challenging moments, breakdowns, meltdowns, shockers, and disappointments, they've also been full of great changes, big joys, hugs, waffles, and happy, HAPPY times.

Again, after much deliberation and asking for guidance from the cosmos, it felt like this was the best clean break. Instead of trying to re-work everything and cram her into a new box, I wanted to leave her experiences and message in their integrity.

Breakfast at Target and her posts will live on in this space; and she will remain here, open for one and all, to still be enjoyed. After all the work I've put into this and the support you've all shown for it, she deserves to stay intact. 

And, excitedly, I'm here to tell you my blogging days are far from over...

(Did you REALLY think you were going to get rid of me that easily?)

While we say our farewells to B@T, I'm thrilled to introduce you to the

Harbour Affair.

As with any new creative venture, she's a raging hot mess right now.

But she's going through her magical HTML transformation, 

and she'll be off to the internet ball pretty soon.

(In other words, stay tuned.)

Breakfast at Target has a couple of final posts before we say good bye, so know we'll all have time to wish her well before she's off to the good life.

And she's given me plenty of hugs & high fives to share as we do.

For now, may 2015 close with a happy sigh of relief for making to to a new year, and may 2016 mean great things for us all.

More to come...

-C