And So We Begin...

In our family, Thom is the writer. He's brilliant, he's tireless about it and he just recently won a fellowship with Earthwatch because of his essay entry. I love buying journals, I love browsing the stationary section at Borders looking for the perfect notebook to write my thoughts, but the trouble is that I rarely write. And even more troublesome, I teach writing. Recently though, I have found myself browsing a new section of notebooks - namely, Blogs. From my friend Deann's photography blogs to the heartbreaking words and photos of Matt Logelin, a total stranger, detailing raising his baby daughter after the loss of his wife, I'm completely pulled in. I could spend hours tracing back archives and putting together life stories from fragmented comments. I've found myself sometimes wishing I could do something like that, had that outlet, perspective, and voice.

This week, I met up with some friends for coffee and one was trying to convince me to come to a scrapbooking class with her. I politely declined, informing her that I was not 'like that', but she insisted that I was, in fact, a creative person. She had her daughter around the same time I had Cayden and she keeps a blog about her. I love it and it's one of the few I check in on every week. She then said to me "OK, well at least this summer you should start a blog. Do it for Cayden." The idea stayed with me over the next few days and then this afternoon, I found myself opening an account.

What I love about this medium is that it can be anything you need it to be. A quick photo from a cell phone, a long-winded rant, a staged candid moment, a sentence. I realize that my voice has the potential to be something too. Most likely not much (I won't likely be a featured Blogger on Huffington Post anytime soon), but it's mine and I want to try it out. I'm passionate about my family right now and any mother loves to talk about her child, so I've decided I'll start from there and see where it all goes.

Thanks to Jeanette, Deann, Madeline, and Cayden for the inspiration!