I began blogging a few weeks after Jackson was born. I was in love with my little guy ... I was sleep deprived, overwhelmed, anxious, and sore. I wanted to capture his every movement and sound and smell. I snapped photo after photo after photo. The blank spaces in the Hallmark baby book just didn't seem to offer enough room for my savored memories, yet starting my own baby book seemed much too daunting for my un-crafty self. And so I turned to blogging. Somehow the act of typing some sentences and uploading photos a few times each week gave me the opportunity to create my own version of a baby book. But more than that, blogging made me pause in the moments of chaos and self reflect on who I was as a mother.
I continued Jackson's blog through his first birthday. After taking a few months off, I started this blog when Adeline was born. I quickly realized that it was next to impossible to create a blog just about Addie. Forever more, my life was changed ... Jackson's life was changed. And so I blogged about him. And her. And them. And us. Filled with amateur photos and grammatically incorrect sentences, I tried to capture not only our highs and lows, but our day to day life.
As 2013 falls upon us, I've decided to take a break from this blogging world. My kids are filled with such energy and passion, and I really want to just be. Not behind the camera, but running with them at the park, or crawling with them in the princess castle, or painting with them at the kitchen table. I hope to muster up time and energy for another blog again someday.
I can only hope that the 290 posts over the last two years will stay alive in my heart just as much as it does on paper. I've just sent this blog to be bound into a book for each of the kids; and someday, they better thank me! I praise God for Jackson and Adeline ... my once two under two.
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