Time to Start

I've been wanting to start a blog for some time now.  The problem is finding the time.  I assume I will start out slowly and learn this whole blogging thing as I go along.  If I wait until I feel like I know what I am doing, I would never get started!

The purpose of my blog is simply to share my family's daily happenings with family, friends and loved ones near and far.  I am a regular on Facebook and manage to enter a status update a couple times a week.  But often I want to write a lot more than the 400 and some characters that the status update box allows.  So I decided I would begin a blog for that purpose.  Now I can ramble on a lot more than before, and you, dear reader, can choose to visit this blog or not.  Do not expect anything too profound or deep or inspiring - mostly it will be simple news, things that my wonderful kids are up to, what we did as a family on the weekend, maybe some photos and videos if I ever get that part figured out and such.

I have, however, off and on since 1994 been a journal writer.  I just poked around in one of the many moving boxes still lurking in our basement and dug up my first journal.  A simple coil bound notebook full of early 20-something angst - believe me, that book is NEVER going to be read by anyone!  Over the years I have kept a journal to pour out my thoughts into.  Some periods of my life I have written a lot and frequently; sometimes months and months go by without any entries.  Like now, I probably have not written anything for several months as I am too busy just living my day-to-day life.  But no matter what, and even if I never show what's written to another soul, they are still important to me.  I enjoy writing, to record momentous events and feelings, to capture the experiences I had when I did some travelling, to bitch about someone but not to their face, to have a place that is mine and mine alone to express myself.  It is a creative outlet I hope to devote more time to in the future and perhaps see if it could lead to something else.  I think this blog may be a little bit of an online journal for me now too.

So here's to a new year and trying something new!