Well here I am blogging world. I am 20 weeks pregnant today, and to celebrate I decided to swallow my pride and start a blog. I have actually thought about it and wanted to for a couple of years now. I say swallow my pride, not to knock bloggers (I mean, I am one, right?) but because it is such a scary thing to start. What if no one reads it? What if I have nothing to write about? What if my friends find out and make fun of me? So I am swallowing my pride, because I no longer care about those things. I know two people will read it: my mom, and my friend Katy. And like Katy said, they are the only ones that matter anyway. And of course I will have something to write about. I could talk to myself for hours, so now I will just put it on a blog so others can know what I talk to myself about. And if my friends find out and make fun of me, well, that's ok.
Why did I decide to start a blog, you ask? Well, a few reasons. First of all, I have always thought I loved writing. Not writing stories or anything like that, just writing whatever I am thinking. My friend Katy and I email back and forth, and we really don't talk about anything important, we just sortof talk about whatever we are thinking. She says that we should change all the names and publish our emails into a book. It would be a good read, I can assure you of that. I also always wanted to write an autobiography. My husband thinks this is arrogant. But it's not like I think I have any sort of exciting life or anything, I just think people would probably enjoy to be inside my head sometimes. Another few reasons is that I sortof read 3 blogs. I am sure that number will expand now that I am officially in the community. It all started when I got pregnant. I was so curious about everything with pregnancy and I found two people that I knew were also pregnant, but further along than me, that had blogs. I wanted to read about the weird things that were happening to their bodies, the weird things they ate, and when they started to show, etc. So I started reading them. One of these ladies I know well, one I only know a little. The third person I only knew as an acquaintance in college, and I have to admit that the reason I started reading her blog is because she was really cute before she had a baby, really cute after she had a baby and I wanted to know what she looked like in between. She sort of gives me hope that I too can be cute again after a baby. And not to my surprise, she was cute during as well. She is actually the one that really made me want to start blogging. In the 3 years that Stephen and I have been married, we have taken a total of probably 15 pictures. Seven of those were on our honeymoon. I have no excuse for this. I realized, now that I am having a baby, that we have nothing to show for the last 3+ years of our life. And when I am old, I will only remember general things, and not the useless details that I want to remember. This girl said that she hopes to one day get each year of blogs printed into a book for her to keep on her shelf and read when she and her husband are old. How sweet. So I thought that I wanted to do that too. I want to be able to remember everything about my pregnancy and having a baby, and I figure there are at least 2 people that want to know those things too. Here's my downfall: I talk too much. So I will stop there, in fear that if it were much longer then you would stop reading anyway.
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