My purpose in blogging

To blog or not to blog...that has been the question. Have been teetering back and forth for a while now on whether or not to start one...

Some folks who blog possess great wit, humor, creativity, or just plain great ability to make you really think about the stuff that matters. I do not claim to rival anyone in these areas, I just want to be me, and I just want to blog. :)

My heart is: to share my heart. I'm looking both to stay more closely connected with those I'm in community with, and also to utilize this great way of recording family happenings--those little moments and memories we experience each week that we'll forget if we don't jot them down.

I do keep a family scrapbook, as well as numerous scrapbooks for my kids (OK, as well as detailed baby books AND a journal for each of my kiddos,) but it's been pretty hard to keep up with all of that! So I thought this blog would be another piece of the legacy...another way for my children to see the joys, struggles and triumphs through the eyes of this Christ-follower. May they see that I love Jesus. That my greatest desire in this life is to know God and to make Him known. May they also see an example of one who is imperfect but presses on in spite of it! My dear family, I pray earnestly that you would find richness in this life through knowing your Savior. That you would see yourselves as the treasures that you are--dearly loved and paid for with the highest price. I also pray that you would experience the purest love of God, despite the inevitable flawed parenting you will no doubt receive. :) God, please make up for my mistakes and use me anyway!