I also felt like I wanted to clarify why I blog in the first place.
I am not blogging with the hopes of gaining a following or becoming a "famous" blogger. I have friends who have gone that direction and it's been really fun watching their readership grow and seeing their success, but I don't really want to have lots of strangers reading about my life. My main reason for blogging is to keep a journal of our lives. Scott and I will often sit on the couch at night and click back through old blog posts and it's amazing how many wonderful memories we have because of this blog. I spent hours and hours creating a photobook of my blog with text and pictures and I only made it through the first nine months of the blog or so...definitely a continuing project for the next few years! Despite the major amount of effort, I'm so thrilled to have this story of our lives for us to always remember.
I've realized that for too long I was worrying about what my small readership of friends and family would think of me and my writing, but now I've just decided to approach this blog primarily as a family journal and personal outlet for me and if people want to read it that's fine with me, but if not...I'm not offended! :) So, despite the fact that certain things I write here might sound like bragging, that is not my intention at all. I'm hoping to write a post soon about the fact that Camden is reading. And I'm not writing this because I want all six people who read my blog to gush over my son; I'm writing it because I want to remember the details on when and how my oldest child learned to read and how proud we are of him. Writing about the little things that make us laugh, the way Micah says, "be-cept" instead of "except", the new things Sadie is saying and doing, the ways I'm missing my Dad, the excitement of life...these are the things I want to remember and this is why I'm resurrecting this blog. I'm not going to promise a certain number of posts a week or pressure myself to meet a certain standard, I'm just going to plug away when I have time so that we have a journal of memories! Here's to yet another new beginning!
We are currently enduring the longest and coldest winter I can remember. Temperatures have been so cold that we've been cooped up inside since November - ugh. Usually over spring break we help collect sap on campus, but since the sugaring season is a few weeks behind this year we had the opportunity to help tap the trees today! It was such a fun experience for the kids and Dave was an amazing teacher - helping the kids search the trunk of each tree to find old tap holes from years past, teaching them how to identify a sugar maple, letting them help drill, giving them a chance to use the hammer on their own and hang the buckets. It was a beautiful day that actually reached about 42 degrees and it was nice to be outside and feel the sunshine on our faces. Many of our fellow faculty-family friends are vacationing in Florida right now, so it was a small crew of helpers but we had a blast! One of the (few) perks of not traveling over spring break!
Team work!
