As with all things important in my life, this idea to share significant family details with the world started out as a sheer moment of panic. Where has the time gone! Many people say that as you grow on in years time starts to slip away and the yesterday is gone, but lately this concept has become too much of a reality for me! Charlotte is 2.5...all right all right, she's almost 3! Bethany is 3 come Monday (its Thursday!) and Charlie and I are just getting older with everyday. Now its not like I have ideas of grandeur just because my favorite movie happens to be Julie and Julia...although brief moments of daydreaming has brought me to thoughts of book deals and movie offers! No, this is all about life. Daily life. Unforgiving, raw, organic, messy, disgusting daily life; and all the parts of it I never want to forget because they involve the people that mean the most to me. My husband who puts up with me and loves me in spite of myself and my two girls who mean more to me than is possible to put into words. So this is our story...
What better place to start this ambitious endeavor than to be brutally honest...I am the world's worst mother. I work with a bunch of woman who are constantly fighting for this prestigious title but I am certain that I can assume proud ownership of it currently. As stated above my daughters are 3 and 3 months respectively, and neither one has a completed book that even remotely resembles a baby book, picture book or (gasp!) scrapbook! As astonishing as this might sound, after doing some careful research during my nursing business hours of 7p-7a I have found this situation of no archiving for your children to be quite common. After dozens of inspirational speeches by those "over achiever Martha Stewart types", $100's (sorry honey) of dollars spent on crafty supplies at Hobby Lobby and numerous "this is it" attempts to be the scrap-booking mom we all wanna be, I have decided...the hell with it. If I have a free minute to myself do I really want to spend it sitting at a table surrounded by paper, glue, ribbon and pictures that I will probably spend the next hour sobbing over while once again commenting to myself "where has the time gone!"? The answer to that is a resounding no! I can try and pretend that I am the crafty type, but the truth of the matter is I am lazy and probably would prefer a good Chianti and some Say Yes To the Dress over night of painstakingly pouring over layouts for a picture book off Snapfish. With all that said I love my children and know that since I will most definitely not be able to leave them an inheritance (since that last $20 went to eggs and milk) the least I can do is leave them with a book created with the witty and heart touching moments I can record right here in cyberspace. That's right kids...Mommy loves you!
