Why I do it....blogging that is
I started blogging in March 2009. When I started "Our CrAzY Life" it was to keep friends & family up to date with our life. Our life was busy & hectic. Family & friends were always wanting to see pictures of the kids in their activities and to keep up with our daily life. We lived 45 miles away from my parents & they only saw the kids on the weekend. The kids were involved in a lot of activities and this was a way to keep them up to date. When I started blogging I didn't worry about opening up our life to the world. Myspace was a big thing at this time and I stored most of my pictures on there. Soon after Facebook became the happening thing & I used it as a way to keep family/friends informed. I had Facebook on my phone and it was always easier to add a picture or post a status then it was to sit down & write a blog entry. Since I deleted my Facebook in July I wish I would have taken the extra time to blog. There are days/weeks/months that were not documented because life got in the way.
I have always loved to take pictures because pictures speak a thousand words. I taken pictures for family & friends in the past and would someday like to have time to take more pictures. My pictures are very special to me & I have always been afraid something would happen and I would loose all of them. I have a lot of my pictures saved to an online album and I also have an external hard drive. When my computer crashed I lost a bunch of my pictures off my computer, luckily I had most of them saved online & had printed some of them. When the kids were younger digital camera's were not as popular so most of their pictures were taken from film that had to be printed. I have been able to scan some of them and save them on my hard drive, but there are several albums of pictures that are not backed up anywhere. My goal one day is to get them all scanned and on my external hard drive. My blog has been a way to document pictures along with a description of where our life was at that moment. My camera has also taken the back burner...especially since I got my I-phone. It is so easy to pull the phone out to take pictures instead of pulling the big camera out. I'm going to get better and bring my camera out of hibernation!
Looking back I have NO regrets of blogging and opening our family up to the world. There are some things I wish I would have done different. It seemed like when life got more crazy & hectic my blog got pushed to the back burner because it was always hard to find time to sit down and blog. Over the past 3 years I have went back and added pictures/post with pictures of things I wanted to remember. There have been many life changing events for our family in this time period. There are still some post I need to go back and add. When I go back and add post I don't feel like these post share what was going on in our life at the time because it is usually hard to remember, but at least the pictures are documented for the future. I want my kids to be able to look back on this blog when they are grown and be thankful for the documentation they have.
Regardless if I blogged about the ups & downs in our life or not...they have still happened. Life will always have it's up's & down's. I will continue to blog about our life and how it changes. Over the last year there have been many changes in our lives...including a new blog name/address/design. This was mostly done to make our lives more private and more for family members. I do wish I would have documented more the last year to be able to look back (there are several post I will go back & do soon). Now that I am working full time & planning a wedding it seems my blog has taken the back burner again. I want the change this NOW. This is OUR lives & I want to be able to look back years from now & remember this special time. My blog isn't huge. I don't have a lot of followers, but that is not what this blog is about to ME. Don't get me wrong I LOVE followers & I LOVE comments! I do read & follow several blogs on a daily basis & regardless of whether I actually post an entry or not I am still on blogger everyday. Now that I have my I-phone it makes it easy to read blogs & actually post entries; therefore starting today I am going to keep this blog more up to date. Some days I may blog from my phone & it may be short and sweet or maybe just a picture with a caption, but I want better documentation.
For my readers, I hope you enjoy reading my blog & staying up to date with our family. I love to share our memories with you...the good, the bad & the ugly. Stay tune for more post! Hope you enjoy :)
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