I forgot...

When I started this blog about 5 years ago, my whole purpose was to document our lives, in pictures and words, so that my daughters would have a record of their lives and growing up.  Being child number three, I have very few pictures of myself as a child, and really no written dialogue as to what was happening, and when.  What a shame.  I grew up travelling the world with my Mom and Dad, and what I would not give to read about the day to day of those amazing travels.  My memory as an 8-13 year old has faded.

So my purpose was clear in my mind.  Unfortunately, life took over and my "extra time" allotted became almost non-existent.  That, combined with losing 3 of our 4 parents over the last three years have probably put me in a mindset that was not too conducive to writing about our lives.  Depression takes over and you have your hands full just getting through your day.

As luck would have it, I have been so blessed in my life.  I have a wonderful sister, amazing in laws, wonderful employers, and most of all a wonderful husband and children.  They have supported me and loved me through it all, and now we have begun what I believe will be a positive, blessed time of our lives.  I realize as I look back that the recording of our daily lives that I wished our blog to be has some huge holes in it.  So I think I will take the "Reader's Digest" approach and do a post for each month that has passed, with the "greatest hits" highlighted.  As my motivation to document our lives in words diminished, so did my motivation to document our lives with pictures (which tells me a lot about myself).  So I will go with what I have and try to give a snapshot of what was happening in our lives during the last year.

Here goes...