WARNING!!!!!!! FORMAT CHANGE

Okay my loyal readers (all 3 of you). I had an epiphany. (hold onto your hats.....nothing major. I just felt like using that word.)

Okay so blogging is therapeutic. I love it. But should there be a higher purpose than merely for my shallow amusement? Well, probably. Some of my friends have guilt-free blogging formats, a.k.a., the family journal. One of my good friends actually had the past year of posts printed into a booklet for each of her children for Christmas. Great Idea! I thought of doing that then realized that a lot of my posts tell what I look at as merely funny stories about my kids. I love to record them and will continue to do so but they are all at ages now where everything is a major embarrassment..........not just a funny story..............hence I will not be printing booklets until they can also be amused as well. Poor kids.

Another friend is so awesome at posting very regularly............. family events and journal-type blogging complete with up-to-date photos. I was talking to her the other night and confessed that photos are rare since I always forget how to get them from the camera to the blog. Maybe if I post photos more often then it can be retained in my minuscule little mind.

Back to my Epiphany. Katie and I were at a Young Women's retreat Wednesday night (more details later in the "family journal") and they were talking about the importance of journals. I used to be better but as of the last 16 years have been utterly and completely a failure. I hate writing in a journal. I am wordy (as I am sure you have noticed by now) and it makes my hand hurt. I have tried computer journals but have about a paragraph on each kid by now. So.......since I enjoy blogging and am filled with guilt over the absence of said journal I will combine the two to increase my chances at eternal salvation. Which means more time devoted to this guilty pleasure but more reading required for my loyal readers. So, if you choose to discontinue your subscription now, I totally understand. Then again, I might just be blabbing about solving the guilt issue without actually following through. I am famous for that after all. You never know......it could go either way. Remember there are times when I posted on this blog once a year.

I was going to put my first journal entry post here but after explaining everything I am too tired of it and I am going to venture out into the pigsty and work on damage control.........my first post under the new format will be..............my day of self-indulgence. Thus, the extreme pigsty.