it's cheaper than therapy

I realized today as I was driving (something I spent a HUGE part of every day doing) that I've been "blogging" for over six months now. I've never been the type to keep up with a journal, but for some reason I don't have a hard time keeping this going. What started out as a way to just share pictures without bombarding friends and family with email attachments has turned therapeutic.

I'm not the traditional mom who keeps baby books. Instead of doing them, I've always taken pictures. A visual account of their milestones instead of a written one. But keeping a blog allows me to do both... jot down the stories that go with the pictures. A lot of photographers keep blogs and show their client work. That never really interested me when it came to having my own blog. I wanted my blog to be about my real life with my real kids - the funny stuff, the gross stuff, and the stuff that, as a mom, makes me melt. I spend so much time on client work that I feel like writing about and photographing my own kids is something I absolutely HAVE to do.... it makes me stop during the day and remember who they are at 7 and 3 and almost 1. Backtalking and yelling and sweaty hair and all.