Trying to Capture Some Memories

I'm not a scrapbooker, I haven't filled out my kids' baby books, I used to very rarely take pictures, but then I got a Sony a200 for my birthday and a Nikon Coolpix for Mother's Day. Since then, I've been picture crazy, but I don't do anything with them except load them up on my computer and scroll through them every one in a while.

So...in an effort to somehow document our lives, I'm starting a blog. It will probably mostly be boring stuff that only grandparents, other family and good friends want to look at, but maybe every once in a while I will say something profound, funny, or profoundly funny. We'll see.

Here's an intro to our family:

I have two really funny kids. My daughter C is 8 and she's super smart, sweet, artistic, and athletic (because I really encourage the athletic part). My son B is almost 5 and he's also super smart, hilarious, very persistent and also athletic (not so much at my urging). I am sure you will hear LOTS about the kids.

I am married to my high school sweetheart, D. D is a great guy, super athletic, plays the guitar in our church worship band, and the hard working breadwinner of our family. We have been married for 13 years, together for 5 before that, so we've been together for over 18 years (which is over half of our lives). I still really love my husband and am committed to being married to him til death parts us.

I've been a stay-at-home mom for a little over 6 years, and I've been going to school part time to complete prerequisite courses for nursing school for the past 2. I will start an RN program in August 2009 that will take me two years to complete. I wish I had pursued this years ago, but I don't regret the last 6 years, being home with my kids. Once I'm done with nursing school, I will pursue part time work in a hospital, probably working nights, so I can mostly be a stay-at-home mom still, while serving people, and making money.

I hit an age this year that I'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around. You see, I was the youngest member of my nuclear family, and the youngest grandchild on both sides of my rather large extended family. I am by far not the youngest any more (at school, at church, among my friends, and even in my family), and it's really weird to me, something I've thought a lot about over the past few months since my birthday. Maybe I'll talk about that later, maybe not.

That's it for now. I will commit to posting to this blog 4 times per week for the rest of June and all of July. By the end of that time, I'll know if this is going to stick or if it was just a flash in the pan on a day at home with a sick child.