Back to Blogging

I've realized that I need to get back to blogging. I used to blog a lot more, obviously. It is work. It's not always the most fun thing to do. After the kids' Spring Concert, I wanted to share the video I took of them with my family. It was a total pain; the video was too big to text, so I had to upload it to You Tube and then share it over email. I don't want to post videos of my kids on Facebook, so blogging seems like a good option to share with family. After I posted the videos and made the entry, I looked at our blog a little. I went back to the first post, when Levi was born. Hard to think that was almost 5 years ago! Time has really flown. Those years of three kids in diapers are long gone and are a blur to me. Now we are in the throes of school, homework, piano, basketball, ballet, scouts, and chores. As I perused the blog, I noticed I was so grateful that I had taken the time to write down a lot of details (probably more than my readers wanted to know, but that my kids might someday), upload so many pictures, and write my feelings about everything the kids were doing. It wasn't the first time I've gone back and reminisced while looking at the blog. But this time was different. I saw the value of it. I realized that I have missed recording a year of our history. The kids are at a great time in life, and I am missing it. I haven't written about Peter and I and our hopes and dreams and struggles and successes. I've missed most of Everly's first year. So as sad as I am for what I've lost, I think I've decided that the value of writing a family blog outweighs the inconvenience. I am going to try to cover what I've missed. Of course I can add pictures and recount what we did, but I have a bad memory and won't be able to remember what I was feeling at every moment. So I'll start doing that with today. Today I am feeling the need to blog!