First of all, thank you Tabitha for a GREAT writing prompt! It is only a nice little kicker that this gets me an entry in your giveaway, but reflecting on this NOW could not be more perfect timing.
I have been blogging now for a little over a year and a half. Prior to that, I did not do any other form of journaling. I started my blog for a few reasons:
1) I wanted to keep track of our early married years, years which I was sure to forget as time went on and everyone knows the first year of marriage is VERY exciting.
2) I had a horrible experience on craigslist and stumbled upon a blog that noted the exact same experience, same names and everything. That was a sign.
3) I am a writer. I love writing and what better way to do it than through a blog, something that is casual and not concerned with perfect grammar or grades.
All this to say that blogging has become a huge outlet for me to keep track of our life events, big or small, and look back at them with deep nostalgia. How is it changing me? Now that we are expecting our first child, I have even more reasons to write about the pregnancy and soon (VERY SOON!!) our new son. I enjoy sharing these thoughts with a select few of you and won't lie that the comments make me melt a little too. So a few weeks ago I was hanging out with our new activities director at work and she mentioned an art project she was going to get the residents interested in and this is what it was:
Take an old book, one which you are no longer reading/enjoying and turn it into a collage of your life. This had my head spinning! I immediately found a book to use and knew exactly what I was going to do. I wanted to take all of my posts on here pregnancy related and put they into this book. A true expression of my first pregnancy in my own words. Yesterday I started to cut out words and pictures from parenting magazines and last night I was copy and pasting my entries into a Pages document. (This project has kept me preoccupied enough to not think so much about WHEN baby boy will be here).
The point?? Had I not started this blog and kept up on it so well, I would not have those entires to use and place into this creative journal I am putting into something tangible. I am not necessarily doing it for my child. I would not expect Logan to be interested in all the things that I was going through while pregnant with him, but maybe there are a few he will enjoy someday. I am doing this for me. I know that once we have more than one child, I will not be able to do this with every baby. My time will be with them. Becoming pregnant and becoming a mother has been my biggest dream come true and I NEED it to be something I can look back on. I fear sometimes that one day, the internet might just disappear and all these entries and words and emotions will be gone. Blogging has changed my life in that I am a better writer, I have a way to express how I am feeling at any given time, and I have memories of the smallest and biggest moments of our married life to date and that is priceless.
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