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Hi I am really nervous to do this. This might be a really bad idea. I am kind of a perfectionist so creating a blog and keeping up with it seems like a monumental task that I don't think I have time for nor know if I should even do. I mean if I don't make time to dust, should I really make time to do a blog, which doesn't even leave me with a cleaner house or less complaints. I don't know. We'll see.

So this is my blog. And I've contemplated doing one for awhile, and always talked myself out of it. But this time I'm going crazy and taking Nike's advice. Just do it. So I did.

Just to get this all out of the way, I can't promise I will ever post again nor that anything I post will ever be interesting or funny or cool or worth reading, but that's ok because I'm not doing this for you, I'm doing this for me, so whatever happens is great. Ok move on.

Here is a picture of my family. It was one of the outtakes from our Christmas card photo shoot but it pretty much sums us up. Tyler and I are trying to make it work and poor Trey doesn't have any choice but to come along for the ride. (Here we were trying to kick up the leaves so to get the perfect "leaves falling in the fall" effect, but instead we look loco and Trey is trying to breathe through the wind storm.)



FYI - this is the photoshopped version of this photo. The original had more blemishes and Tyler's double chin was more double-y.

 

I have 2 goals for this blog.

 

1. I am going to try to be really real...hence the awesome photo and the caption. Because I know how hard it is for me to see other people's seemingly perfect lives and not feel insecure and not good enough and wonder how in the world can these other girls have young kids and a home that looks like it just fell out of a magazine and look picture perfect and afford beautiful clothes and travel and own a business and attend fabulous events and find photographers everywhere they go so they get the perfect candid photo to post (cause every time I ask someone to take a photo it comes out like I just asked a five year old) and still have time to be great mothers and wives. Like what the heck?! Am I missing something...like a gene? So I will do my best to be true to myself. Cause if I'm not, then what's the point?

 

2. I want to give people the opportunity to get to know me and my family better, if you so choose. I can't decide if I like the way social media has shaped how we get to know each other, but in the end, if it helps you connect with people on a deeper level than you would have the chance to otherwise, and it makes you happy, then I guess it's a good thing. And this way, if you want to know more about us, you can and that's great. And if you couldn't care less, then you never visit and that's great too.

 

Ok my time limit is up. So until next time. Or maybe never again.

 

Sarah