Blogging....Take 2

Yay! I'm sitting down to start a blog. My husband and I started a blog years ago and after several months it just fell flat. But here's to "blogging...take 2". There are a number of motivations for me to blog (and hesitations, but those are outnumbered by motivations). Here are some:

• Let distant family in on our lives as a family unit in Minneapolis
• Let distant friends in on our lives...
• Update folks on the rapid development of our 7 month old boy 
• Create an archive for all the milestones and memories our son is making 

As I mentioned above, I've been hesitant to start a blog. For a lot of reasons. But the primary one is that I don't think I'd be consistent enough to be a blogger. I really try to avoid starting things if I don't think I can complete/succeed in/handle it. This has turned me off from blogging the past few years. 

However, now that we have a child I have a strong desire for my family to know him, enjoy him, and love him even though we live thousands of miles apart. Texting photos works fairly well, but I think blogging yields more fruit. All the photos are organized on one website, readily available for EVERYONE, and even I can go back and remember what I posted and when. And since my desires for family connection are stronger now that I'm a mom, I'm hoping I can be disciplined to be somewhat consistent in posting. 

That said, I think it would help me if I stated some disclaimers...for giving myself grace in blogging. 

• My goal is to post 1+ picture once a month (my goal needs to be attainable, people,...I think I can manage one a month...gotta start small and go from there:)
• I don't NEED to provide a long explanation of the photo, but a caption would be nice.
• You guys don't really care about my grammar or if i use all lower-case, right?
• if all my photos are of Theodore that's totally acceptable because I'm a mommy now:)

Cool,

We got all that out on the table. I'm ready to blog!!!

Ok first photo post is coming soon...