An Honest Effort

Inspired by my tech-savy and creative sister-in-law, I've decided to start a blog... I've hemmed and hawed about doing this for quite some time. Computer shy, I even went out and bought a cute little journal that I thought I'd write everything down in - I even wrote one entry in it (that I admit to be partially copying from right now!). But then, wracked by uncertainty over what to do about adding pictures, videos, and just generally falling behind because of those very things, I never wrote another entry. So, here I am, determined to figure out all the tricks and trades of updating a blog.

I can't quite count the number of attempts I've given to starting a journal. I'm truly hoping this attempt won't fail like the rest! Memories are at stake!!! If I'm going to be honest with myself, I'm going to have to admit that I'm a fairly forgetful person. I can't count the number of times I've said to myself, "Oh, I'll never forget this moment," only to find that, sadly, many of those said moments recede to some far away place in the back of my mind only accessible on rare occassion. I have some legitimate faith that I'm truly going to become a "loyal blogger" because, this time, I'm doing it for the sake of my family. I need to save them from my forgetful mind! How else am I going to remember what Olivia was like at 21 months or what a wonderful (oops, scratch that) terrible sleeper Grace was!

So here's to an honest effort towards recording the Huinker family life, its ups and downs, its simplicities and crazinesses, its trivial and significant events, and everything else in between!