Purpose

I read somewhere that the best way to have a great blog is to be sure to know the purpose of your blog. For the most part I've found that to be true. All the blogs I read have a specific reason for being, mommy blogs, infertility, I/my child/spouse is dying of terrible disease x, I do great things read about it here!, I am really in to xxx. I have none of those things, well, except the mom thing but do the internets really need another mommy blog? I didn't think so. So why am I here? I guess to see myself think. To stretch my writing fingers. To justify all the hours I log online. I love to journal and take pictures but rarely take the time to sit down and write anymore. I have journals for each of my kids that are sadly neglected while the boys continue to grow and change daily. My boys, as all children do, do funny, weird, and awesome things and I don't want to forget any of it. My younger son will do something and I will think "Huh, is this normal? Did D* do this when he was this age? Maybe I should look back in his journal and see if it says anything. Oh wait. I only wrote in it twice that year. " Not helpful.  As a family we do so much and I would love to have it chronicled so that I don't forget any of it.  So here I am  writing to myself in a public space that will likely never be read by anyone but me. At least I won't have to worry about nasty comments!