Why a blog?

I'm starting this blog for myself, as a reference for when I am eventually scrapbooking this time in our lives. While I like call myself a scrapbooker, it really is a misnomer at this point as I haven't actually scrapbooked in quite a while. I'm soooo far behind it's ridiculous and I'm worried I'll forget all the fun little stories which I like to include in my scrapbooks. I have all the supplies, the scrapbooks, the pictures are taken (however, not printed for the most part), I just haven't had the time to get it all done. And I will, I know I will. But in the meantime I figured I could start a little blog for myself. I will use it to chronicle our family adventures, to type out things as they happen and are fresh in my mind.

But I could just do that in a file on my laptop, right? In fact that is exactly what I did when my second child was born, I have a file which contains all the info from her birth until she is about 2 years old. So why a blog? Okay, I will admit it...I've wanted to start a blog for a little while now. My first introduction to blogs was the blog of a friend of mine who now lives too far away and has the 2 most adorable little boys on the planet, I started following her blog regularly, amazed I was able to know what is going on in their lives. From that blog I started looking at other blogs, and so on, and so on. Now I have a handful I like to follow regularly. It seems like a fun way for me to keep track of our adventures.

And so that is why I am starting a blog.