Blogging? Me?

Back in the day, (read: before a career, husband & kids) I use to write all the time. In fact, I loved writing! I wrote & made up stories as a child, entered them in contests, kept diaries and journals, etc. I told everyone I planned to be an author one day, when I grew up. Well, that hasn't happened yet, but I swear I passed college biology only because I could write an awesome paragraph all about microorganisms, using big words that made me sound completely knowledgeable about information I truly knew nothing about. Kids, it pays to learn to write! :)

I guess I got burned out on writing throughout my undergraduate & graduate degrees because I've been terrible about keeping a journal or really writing anything every since. The amount of essays I had to write for these two degrees in early childhood education was insane! And then while teaching third grade, I was always busy writing tons of lesson plans and GRADING writing all the time that I guess I never picked it up again just for leisure. I did enjoy encouraging the students who loathed using a pencil in class and somehow making little writers out of them by the end of the school year, though.

Now, I am a stay-at-home Mommy to four small kids and I don't even have time to think half the time. (my oldest just turned 4 so technically I had 4 under 4 for three and a half months, ya'll!) People have mentioned to me that I should start blogging because I like to write, have plenty of crazy stories to share, blah blah blah. It's what all the cool kids are doing after all, right? HA! I've always brushed it off with excuses muttering about time constraints, laundry to do, etc. For the woman who has to hide in the bathroom pretending she's taking a long poop just so she can have 5 somewhat quiet moments to herself (and even then, little sticky fingers are shoved under the bathroom door beckoning for me) I didn't think blogging would exactly fit in my schedule. Hey, I'm just being honest here.

Yet here I am. I decided that blogging would be a way for me to share with others this crazy road of life God has me travelling on by giving me a place to process the day with all of its successes & failures. It would be an opportunity to sharpen my dulled writing skills once again because Lord knows the biggest word in my vocabulary these days is Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and the only thing I have time to write is my weekly grocery list.

I am no Super Mom - in fact, I haven't even started baby books for 3 of my 4 children. And the first baby book I did start has just a handful of pages completed. Yup, I am *that* Mom, don't judge me! (okay, in all fairness, I DO make a photo book for each of them documenting their first year of life. So I'm not totally a failure, okay? hehe) Blogging is my opportunity to remember these years as a new wife and a young mom. I've always been told these precious years slip through our fingers pretty quickly and this is one way I can stop to reminisce. So here's to new beginnings, a new blog, and a chance for me to formally document the comings & goings of our lives in a way I haven't been able to before. Enjoy the ride, my friends!

Happy Reading!