I have been blogging for a long time. I've always been a writing/journaling type girl so blogging always sort of fell in line with my way of expressing myself. I didn't have a computer from the time I could breathe like a lot of people- shh..I am a little bit old, I remember when no one had a computer and they were huge, clunky and cost about $15,000. We got our first computer when AJ was born, roughly 8 1/2 years ago. There were no 'blogs' per se back then. Or if there were they were probably a bunch of techno jargon written by programmers. So me, wanting to share my experiences and pictures of my family, started a website at the now defunct geocities. This before it was Yahoo! Geocities. Before Google. Does anyone remember when Yahoo was new? They were going to take over the world until a little engine that could called Google started picking up steam and crawled over the hill chugging , 'I think I can! I think I can!" Yahoo is still there of course, but it stands in the shadow of Google, and Geocities is no more. I didn't even realize it was gone until I tried in vain to seek out my old site.
After awhile I abandoned the geocities website and for a millisecond tried my hand at coding on Angelfire. Being a mom to three little ones I just did not have time to learn it all and so I quit blogging for awhile. About a year later I found a site called Diaryland and it was my first introduction to the actual 'blogging' format. It was actually called a weblog and not just a personal family website. There was nothing fancy about Diaryland. You could customize your font, give the blog a title and choose a background a font color. Life got busier and busier for me and I only posted on it for a short while.
In 2004 blogging had taken over the web. Not to the extent it has today but the Mommy blog certainly existed. I decided to give it a shot. I still enjoyed writing, pouring out my thoughts and feeling, sharing my daily adventures with the blog reading public. A month or so before Ginny, my 4th child turned 1 I started Pieces Of Us. I don't remember why I chose Typepad, other than that I was confused by Blogger and not a fan of the style. There weren't a lot of bloghosting sites at that time, at least not for the amateur blogger, so Typepad it was. And so began years of blogging. Since I began blogging has exploded, it's morphed into microblogging- enter Twitter. I guess I am just old school because I tried to tweet but just haven't' been able to love it like I do blogging. I like to sit down, ponder and write it all out. Snippets are not my way, I am long winded! I need more than 300 words.
Blogging has not only been a way for me to share with others, it has so many other benefits. I have used it as a cross reference of my life. When I can't remember a specific date, event, cute kid quote...I have probably blogged about it and I can find it. Mommy Blogs are the best friend of those with Mommy BRAIN. No more of the "Which kid was it that used to..." It's like a scrapbook without the mess of glue dots and deckle scissors. I can't imagine not blogging. It's a peek in the windows for the outside world, and a peek back through time for me.
Just for fun I am linking a smattering of old posts, sort of a patchwork quilt of words.
Caleb at his best
I am missing rain about now.
Happy Baby wearing
Ballerina
Busy Days
Fun Times
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