Hello 2011! {and hello to you, long lost little blog}

Somewhere along the way, this little blog got pushed to the way-side,
shoved into a dusty corner and forgotten
to other more seemingly important tasks.
And I miss it.
I miss taking a moment to reflect on the beauty of the day;
to jot down something that I learned,
or a reminder of how each day is a gift,
or a snippet of a moment that would have otherwise been forgotten.

I miss looking back over the photographs of the everyday bits and pieces from our lives,
photographs of people who will look completely different in a year or two,
pieces of our lives that will never be quite like this again.

So this year, this brandy new, fresh and open year
I am making a promise to myself and to this blog
to dust off the {remember today's} and get back to posting here.
I promise.

Why I blog

So today I was over at Kelli Crowe's blog and she had a post asking people why they blog. I have been thinking about doing a post on this for quite a while, so here's what I told her:

*I blog to taste life three times: once while living it, once while writing it down, and once while reading through what I've written (of course some days are hard enough to taste just once!)

*I blog to remember because as much as I think I will never forget these days of my boys' childhoods, I will.

*I blog because days happen faster than scrapbook pages can be put together. My blog helps me keep it all straight in one spot for when I'm ready to create those pages.

*I blog to promote my growing business, and to offer out my work as possible inspiration to others (isn't imitation the sincerest form of flattery?)

*I blog to keep in touch with family and friends.

*I blog for the feeling of connecting with others (like today when a mom at my son's school introduced herself and told me she feels like she knows me because she reads my blog).
Blogging verifies the closeness we all have to one another, our universality (is that a word?).

I'm sure there are more reasons, but that's all I can think of for now. I think I'll just copy and paste this right into my blog as a post for today. Thanks for helping me get this done! Oh, yeah and thanks for the chance at the giveaway!

A few friends want to start their own blogs, so I will be having a mini-workshop (using this term very loosely) on how to blog this summer. Let me know if you are interested in starting a blog and I will let you know the details.