A Thousand Posts

If a picture says a thousand words, then what does it mean that it has taken me a thousand posts, several thousand pictures, and hundreds of thousands of words, to share my family with this little corner of the internet?

Five years ago it started as a kind of internet birth announcement, a simple way to show pictures of brand new tiny Nathan to our family and friends without bombarding everyone with emails (we weren't on facebook then... remember when babies came into the world and it wasn't a Facebook Thing? HA HA WEIRD). So this little blog was born.

And over the last five years I have sat down one thousand times and written something down about us or our lives -- fun or dumb, important or nonsense, lamenting or celebratory. A thousand times I have done this! (I almost can't wrap my brain around it.)

We started it mostly to share with other people, but now it's also totally for me. Oh, the things I would worry about if I didn't have bright encouraging people reading and sending their smarts my way. The friendships I wouldn't have kindled (or rekindled!) because of this curious thing about putting our lives on the internet. But mostly, whoa dang, the little moments that would be totally forgotten if I didn't write them down and share them.

five years and a thousand posts later:
our fun/awkward/grumpy/smiley family

These thousand posts have become an odd sort of record, or something, of what this season has been like for us. A trail of memories all jumbled up together in my beautiful mess of a family.


Here's to a thousand more.