Why I do this

I have to be honest, blogging is not always easy.

It takes time (a precious commodity around here these days!)...to get the pictures organized and uploaded...to sit and think through what to write so that it's communicating what I'm intending...choosing to spend an hour doing this instead of a variety of other things.

It may seem like I'm complaining, and maybe I am a little.

But, at the end of the day, its worth it. For so many reasons.

Like this one.

A friend told me about a company that will print out your blog as a book.

I'm not a scrapbooker, and not very good at printing pictures and putting them in albums.

(Kate is the only one of our children that even has a baby book!)

But this I can do, and it's been awesome.

I started this blog in 2008 when we moved to Wake Forest to start seminary, as a way to share our life with loved ones we were leaving in GA. And for the first few years, that was its primary function, a way to keep anyone updated that wanted to be. Then I found out about making it into a book. So I made one for each year. And now, four years after starting the blog, I have a chronicle of our family that we can pull out and look back through to remember all that the Lord has done! I can identify with Moses in Exodus when he says to the Lord "I have never been eloquent...". I know several people who blog, many even for the same reasons, and I've struggled through seasons of comparison, listening to lies in my mind like "I don't write like her" or "I'm not as good a mother or wife as she is". And that has not been easy to escape. But I keep blogging, because the opportunity to come back to the book later, to slow down and remember, to ponder these things in my heart, to look back on both the exciting and the mundane moments, to trace the hand of God in our lives is much to rich to pass up.

And I sure don't want to miss out on moments like this whenever a new book arrives...