Thus it begins.

I’ve finally decided to start a blog on the advice of a friend. A friend I don’t get to talk to that much anymore, but a friend nonetheless. It’s actually something I’ve been thinking about for a while; especially since Carian and I found out we were expecting a baby. I’m hoping she is a regular contributor as well to this electronic form of mental vomiting, but we’ll see how things develop.

The goal is to use this page as a chance for all of our friends and family, near and far, to have a common arena to share in our experiences, especially now that a little one is on the way. Not that our experiences are any more significant than anyone else’s in the grand scheme of the world, but they’re ours, and they are truly unique (just like everyone else’s :). No matter how exciting, boring, amusing, entertaining, sad, happy, ridiculous, routine, or remarkable, we still want to share them with those closest to us. Hopefully you’ll be interested enough to share in return.

My main hesitation to starting this blog is that I’ve seen many of my friends do the same and eventually run out of steam. I have a feeling I’d be a prime candidate for the same sort of gradual neglect to this running monologue, especially once I have a baby crying all night and demanding my every waking (and sleeping) moment. Yet, if I am able to keep up with it, I feel this would be a perfect outlet to document our child’s life for anyone who is interested.

I hope to restrict this space to documenting only our lives. I have a number of ideas for topics, opinions, and discussions I could release upon these pages, but for now I will keep those unsaid. The world is crazy enough, and there are already enough uninformed people out there willing to make unneeded noise.

More importantly, I hope to hear back from you. Our friends and family are so important to us, and this is really for you as much as it is for us, if not more so. Thus it begins. I will update you as I have something to provide an update on. I have no idea where this will take us, but isn’t that the way it’s supposed to be?