First Time

Let's see here, I'm giving this a try. I read others' blogs and love doing it. I love seeing the different writing styles, pondering what other people are learning and seemingly getting into peoples' heads. I feel like I'm getting a glimpse of their lives, or their "diaries" as I think of it. I remember when I was a little girl and I used read. Loved to read. Still do. Anyways, I read "Dear God, It's Me, Margaret" and the whole time I felt like I was reading this person's actual diary. And I could relate! I felt like I somehow belonged. We connected and although this was a fictional book, there was so much reality to it that it helped to make me feel like I was normal. Just a normal girl living in an abnormal world, maybe?

So, being able to read people's thoughts somehow helps me to put mine into perspective. When I read something that I really resonate with, I get super excited about it! And when I read something that either confuses me or angers me, I just chalk it up to differing opinions and I do love the simplicty and beauty of that. I get to think more about whatever it is that makes me cringe or question, and see where it fits into my thoughts.

That's why I like blogs. I didn't even know what a blog was until last fall. Ha! I'm so not in the techie world. Maybe I should call it the modern world? So now I know and I'm trying it out. I can feel a lack of self-confidence here as I type. Will my writing be good? Will I spell it all right? Will all of my puncutation be correct? That teacher in me comes out something fierce when I write. Guess that's another project to work on, huh?

I guess the main reason I am starting to blog is that we are moving. Yep, Jeff and I are off to the Baltimore area in about 4 weeks. Wow. It seems so unreal still. There is so much to do with those I love, quality time to share and cherish, and memories to make. And then it'll be time to go and I'll think, "Wait--we're moving? Where did the time go?" But it will come. And the joy and excitement and sadness and tears will all be there too. And people are going to wonder. They're going to ask what we're up to, how we're doing, what's Baltimore like, etc. If I'm blogging, then they'll know the basics and when we do talk, we can get to the heart of it all.

So there's my reason. There's my first blog.