Yay! I've always wanted to do this!

I'd like to go on the record saying that I have a lot to say about a lot of things and I want a lot of people to know. That, in a nutshell, is why I now have a blog.

 (And also because my sister inspired me. She's pretty good at that.)

I have been writing things down for years. I remember people telling me, at a very young age, I was going to be a writer. I kept journals (however inconsistent) in high school, and I majored in English w/Writing Publication in college. I'm one of those extra-sentimental people who feels like if I don't take the time to handwrite/type out my words, they don't have as much meaning. I still write, as a mom, just NOT NEARLY AS OFTEN as I would like.

Writing, for me, is essential to my daily life. Chances are, if I don't write it down, I can almost guarantee with 100% accuracy that I will not remember whatever it was I was supposed to remember. And in my line of work, forgetting is highly detrimental.

Moms are the only people on the planet (except maybe the president, though that's up for debate, I suppose) that are not allowed to forget a single thing. If I forget to sign the permission slip, I definitely get the stink eye. If I forget that today is "dress like a princess day" at school, and I have no princess, I am left to pick up the pieces of my 5 yr old daughter's shattered, broken, never-going-to-ever-be-fixed-heart-ever. And I better not ever, no not ever, forget that my child likes cake, but not regular cake. He likes the kind that is moist, but not too moist, chocolate but without chocolate chips, iced but not with buttercream because only the whipped icing keeps him from hurling his guts into oblivion, and he can only eat cake with a spoon, not a fork, because it tastes better that way. Yes, folks, if I were to forget even one minor detail such as this, the world would probably stop spinning. FOREVER!

Yes, I even take the time to write down incredibly out-of-the-box requests such as these. For today's memory's sake, and for those days when I am old and gray, and he's getting old and gray, and I am still baking birthday cakes just the way he likes them.

So, here I am. Writing to you because I love to, want to, NEED to, and because, maybe it will not only help ME remember the important things in my life, but will also help YOU remember, as well.