Two of the resolutions that regularly find themselves on my mental new year's list are to write more and to be better at keeping in touch. Going back to the first letters I wrote - to my best friend who had moved a whole hour away! - there has always been something supremely satisfying about writing down the little stories of everyday life, the things I'm thinking about, the sweet and the awkward moments. Sadly, with parenthood, a job, and the million and one other aspects of life, pen and paper letter writing has for now pretty much disappeared into the dustbin of history.
But this year, I experienced for the first time the desire to have a blog. Despite the fact that like most people these days I spend far too much time on the internet, I've always harbored a bit of the Luddite in me and resisted the idea of things like blogging. That combined with having a web designer husband meant that websites were "his thing". Maybe now I have changed and see a blog as perhaps the only realistic way to include this kind of letter-like sharing in my life, or maybe it's a desire to finally assert my "web independence". Whatever it is, here I find myself making my first blog post. To my far-flung friends and family, I hope this will be a little window into our lives here, as Cassidy makes her first steps from baby to "big girl". To myself, here is a chance to finally make good on those resolutions.
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