Happy New Year 2009

I am writing this blog for a number of reasons, the most important of which is to share our days with you guys, my beautiful family who are speckled all over the world. I have been thinking a lot lately of how I lament the fact that I feel all alone here in America. And I realize that by ‘all alone’, I mean ‘without you’… I am NOT all alone at all! I am in the midst of a beautiful life. I have felt so sad that we are not growing up surrounded by grandparents, handfulls of aunts and uncles and heaps of cousins, like I did. But, it is time I let this sadness go. I think it will help a lot if I have a place to share our days with you… even if it can’t be in the flesh, we can share our special moments all the same.

Another reason for starting this blog is to have a place where we can come to remember. I have been unsuccessful keeping journals, baby books and even photo albums and I am hoping that this will be our memory keepsake. What fun we have looking back at the old photos and how much more fun it will be knowing the stories behind them.