This blog

I've been  revisiting and rereading old blog posts over the last few days. 

Ah, Jesse and Evelyn! 

I've been so sporadic in posts this last year--especially in the spring/summer of 2011 when we were putting our old house on the market, and then traveling, packing, moving, etc.  Over the last few months, I've wondered whether wasn't perhaps time to give up the blog altogether. But now, having spent some time looking over old posts and pictures and videos ... O, I'm so glad for these little remembrances.  All these stories (which, at the time I wrote them, I was sure I'd not forget) have already begun to fade from memory. And then there they are: the words, the pictures, the videos--all in one place. It all comes back and I think "Oh, yeah! How could I forget?!"

When it all started, the blog was created as a way to allow family and friends to join us as we traveled to a distant land to meet our children-to-be.  And then it became a way to keep our family and friends who live at a distance up to speed on current happenings with us (and especially with the twins). Of course, I hope it continues to be that--especially since *all* of our family (and many dear friends) live out of state. But I now realize that, increasingly, this blog is for my own distant and future self (and for future Jesse and Evelyn). It has become the best way to make a record of the wonderful and the mundane (even, on occasion, the sad) things that make up this life together. 

Turns out, a blog is a really great way to keep a family album. I think I'll stick with it.