What Blogging Does for Me

I read such an interesting quote

this morning.

It was one of those moments when you say

"YES! THAT is what I haven't been able to find the words to say!"

Let me back up....

I was flipping through the magazine Wonder Time

( why do I even still get these kid centered magazines?

I feel too old for them, even if my kids aren't!)

and came across an article called Confessions of a Mommy Blogger

by Catherine Newman.

This article caught my eye for a couple of reasons-

first off because it is about blogging

and then because it is by Catherine Newman

and I just finished her book Waiting for Birdy

just last week.

In this article,

she answered the question that I am often asked

but find myself completely unable to answer...

Why blog?

She says:

"Blogging is the underbelly of scrapbooking,

its tantruming, scatalogical doppelganger...

If scrapbooking is the urge  to put it all together,

blogging might be the urge to take it all apart.

Blogging might not make life tidier,

but it keeps life in your memory,

and keeps it real."

How perfect a description is that?

I totally see blogging as the hidden red headed stepchild

of the parenting world.

You seldom see scrapbooking pages on

"The day I threatened to kick my child into Thursday of next week"

or

"Why I wear a digital watch: so I don't forget to pick up my third child from preschool."

No, scrapbooking pages are for 

Zoo trips!

First Smiles!

Grandparent Visits and First Teeth!

The exclamation moments of life.

But life is also made up  of millions

of other moments, 

the kind we forget

when we tell how it really was, 

ten years later.

So if you want to know why I blog...

there you have it.

PS- You can read Catherine's blog at benandbirdy.blogspot.com.