Blogging

I follow several of the "mom" blogs because I love reading about their babies.  I love getting ideas from them.  Two of the blogs I follow have had someone write really rude comments on their blogs.  Both of these girls are SAHMs and the comment was just so rude and hurtful about their choices.  On Kellys Korner she posted a post about how real you are on your blog and why you blog.  I thought I would post my response to that.
 I started my blog so that family could "keep up" with my life and what is going on with me and my family.  Now that Anna Riley is here, I want to use the blog as a scrapbook of our lives.  So mostly...the blog is going to be about her and our family...I dont really keep a baby book, thats why I try to document everything on here.  I got an idea, again from another blog, to make a book of your blog. So I plan to make a book of the blog every year.  SO when the question is ask how real I am... I am real, I am honest.  However, when I am having a bad day, you usually wont know it by my blog.  If Riley and I get in a fight, you cant go to my blog to know that.  Like Kelly said in her blog, I want to remember the good times...not the negative.   Someone that commented said this and I thought it was so true:
"I like to compare blogs to family vacation photos. When we look at the photos, we see a family of smiling people. What we don't see is the luggage that got lost, the mom who had to threaten the lives of her children because they wouldn't stop fighting, the hotel that smelled, and the dad that was on the phone with work for most of the trip. Of course, everyone in the photo remembers all of that.... and probably can laugh about it when looking back. But, that's not what you see in the photo or want to highlight.

A blog is a snapshot..... we mainly write about what we want to remember, celebrate, and learn from. Every now and then, an unflattering picture gets thrown in, but that's what proves we're real and human.

Everyone is different and everyone has different reasons for blogging.  This is just mine.    :)

A first

Sorry no pictures in this post...but since I use this as our family "scrapbook" and its how I document everything...I had to post about it.  :)

Anna Riley FINALLY went to the church nursery last Sunday.  After almost 5 months! haha  And I did great...I mean she did great! : )  I think the sweet nursery ladies were a little worried about me making it through the whole service but I did great and didnt even check the parent pager once!  She had just been doing so great during church that I just always kept her in there with me and she honestly still does.  But, I want her to get used to other adults and playing with other children since she is with me all day and plus I can really pay attention so much better without her there.  It helps that she was smiling when I handed her over and when I went to pick her up she was sound asleep! :)  I know she is in good hands!  And she has even went to the gym nursery a couple of times too! YAY...I usually worry a little more there because they are just young girls but I am right there and the owner is in and out the whole time.   I am getting better! :)

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Curly Hair??

I just love that AR's hair is finally growing some.  Its really starting to curl up when its wet.  She doesnt stand a chance for straight, silky hair with the hair that her Daddy and I have! Poor thing...at least we know how to fix curly hair around here!

These were taken right after her bath before we brushed it.  :)