A} I kinda sorta use it as a virtual baby book in many ways. I don't want to forget the funny/crazy things my kids do, how quickly they grow. One day I will be able to look back and remember when Leah stopped signing "Thank You" and starting saying it. When Joshua and I spent an afternoon drive talking about terminators and velociraptors. When Hailey's face broke her fall after a bike accident. What Grayson looked when he was bald up top and only had hair on the sides and then when he was bald on the sides and only had hair up top.
2} So that the grandparents and aunts can read about Joshua's awesome haircut, Hailey's first week of kindergarten, Leah's favorite food, and Grayson's earliest milestones.
III} To get the crazies out. Because sometimes they just can't stay locked up anymore.
d} To connect with other people who are going through the same things in life I happen to be going through. There's a huge support system in the interwebs.
E} I'm not a completely selfish person. I like to share. Sometimes it's easier to blog it than tell eleventy-million people. If I fall in love with a recipe? BLOG IT. If I discover something amazingly useful and awesome? BLOG IT.
6} Lastly I use it for the little bit of photography and design I still do here and there. I ditched the separate sites and plopped all my shiz down right here in one blog.
That's a lot of reasons.
I pretty much look at blogging as a hobby. I enjoy it. It's fun. It's therapeutic. And it's incredibly useful. It's probably the longest I've stuck to a hobby, and I honestly don't ever see myself stopping. As long as my kids are growing and changing, as long as my shutter's a clicking, as long as I have my family to share my life with, I will be blogging.
Like all hobbies though, sometimes they just happen to take a backseat to life for a while. I go through spurts where I'm not blogging very often, and spurts where I'm posting more than once a day. Right now I'm just not posting often. Actually, I'm just not publishing often. The posts are still coming. They're just not being completed. Not coming to fruition.
When that happens my family is pretty much in the dark with what's going on because I am H O R R I B L E at communication. I'm basically allergic to calling people. It makes me itch just thinking about it. And it seems like the very moment I walk away from my phone is the time people decide to call me. Resulting in me missing their call. And because I don't want a twitchy eye I don't call them back. Also, I forget to call people back. Usually. Also, I just don't like calling people. {It may have to do with the 4 noise makers I have to talk over, or having my hands full with dishes, laundry, dirty diapers, you know...life.} Sadly, when I do sit down and take 5 I don't feel like calling people. I usually feel like blogging...it's just my way.
So dad, uncle Bob, okay I don't have an uncle Bob, so....dad...and the rest of ya'll who I love and who read this? Sorry for the lack of info from the ye old Renwick abode. I hope to give a run down post soon!
For everyone else...why do you blog? Did you start out blogging for a specific purpose? Has that reason since changed?
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