The Inspiration

Well, one can only put off technology for so long. I had been a long time hold out on the "virtual" life, until a few days ago. I joined FB...I figured since being a working mom and unsuccessful OC socialite, a virtual social life was better than nothing. As I was finding my way through the walls and posts, I realized this wasn't really me. Don't get me wrong. I'm going to make a go at it. It's just that I've always preferred a long conversation as opposed to random chit chat (I'm not good at that anyway) My whole life I have had definitive ideas. Some expressed in the real world. Others just looped over and over in my head. It has been a running joke with my husband. "I have thoughts!" You know the Nora Ephron quote from Julie & Julia, only without the knife. I usually refer to that right before or after a pity party about being a 35 year old women who can't complete a sentence in her own home! So he jokes back about blogging. Then I received an email from a dear friend who had finally done it. Blogged, in order to capture the sweet life of her son. Now that hit me like a lightbulb (after of course, a few minutes of jealousy over the fact that blogging doesn't require real life cropping & pasting or your entire dining room table like scrapbooking-which I never could fully embrace) I could chronicle our lives while injecting a few of my thoughts. So here goes...