Hannah

4.10.2010 | 10:41 am | permalink to this comment

When you created my blog for me, I thought I was just doing a service to the grandparents and family out there that wanted to see pictures of the kids, and it was taking me a long time to e-mail out pics every week. Uploading to a blog was just easier than e-mailing pics out to family. But then the blog connected me with friends and mentors and people that inspire me. There are two “friends” (I officially consider them to be now) that I’ve never even met, but they came to Christ through a friend’s blog, and I had been praying for them, and now they follow my blog and I follow theirs. I love the support and encouragement that’s shared between women as we struggle through our daily lives. I truly get something out of reading friends’ blogs… I’ve been convicted reading how they keep Christ at the forefront of their families and their holidays, and I’ve implemented things I’ve read on their blogs. I feel a relationship with these women, and they are a big support for me. Especially living far away from family where I get blue that there’s no one right here to praise my child for an accomplishment or to brag on them in a way that makes it all worth it for me at the end of the day… these women have taken an interest in my children and that means the world to me. I write because they care, and that forges a bond between us. Finally, now that I’m on baby #3, It’s so much fun to be able to instantly pull up with a click what my other kids were doing at the same age. It’s like a readily available Rogers Family historical record, and that element has become the most important to me, probably. Now I blog mostly for myself and my kids so they will have this record of their childhood. That’s why I focus on the good things… a lot of Mommy bloggers share their horror stories, and while I’ll share some frustrations, I want my kids to know they were a joy and I want them to have a record of all the happiness b/c one day life will not be so simple and I don’t want them to look back on their childhood and read what they did that made me angry. So I’m aware that my blog is a little Brady-ish, and I don’t mean to portray a false image of everything being perfect (because they’re NOT!). It’s just when I sit down to blog at night, these are the things I want to remember, and want them to remember. I know I’m a super-sentimental person, but having a record of all those happy memories would be amazing to me if blogging had existed in the 80s! Anywho, that’s my blog story… as for YOU, I would value anything you write b/c I miss you and I feel each and every one of those 2,000+ miles between us. We went from having these eerily similar lives to living so far apart and being in different phases of life. I don’t really have any idea what your life is like, and I want to know! I would read every word. Blog b/c it makes us feel closer to you! Blog b/c it helps you reconnect with all those that love you. Blog b/c it gives you something to zone in on in your life that makes you happy. Blog b/c you’re Megan and you rock my socks off!! I love you!

lsse

4.20.2010 | 11:40 am | permalink to this comment

I check in once in a while to see what you have written. I am so glad to see you posted something again. I love reading your blog because it helps me to know you a little better.You are such a talented writer,artist and designer, that I just want to see everything you work on. I feel you have alot to say in your heart and it comes out when you create..it’s totally selfish on my part because you touch my heart in doing so. Please continue to blog, it’s such a joy for us!