Minutiae

For the first eight months of Luc's life, I kept a daily journal. Actually, journals. In total, I filled seven mini spiral notebooks. I wrote down everything he ate, when he slept, and notes about what we did that day, important milestones, parenting thoughts, shopping lists, etc. I always kept the journal with me, and I wrote in it every day, multiple times a day. And I really enjoyed doing it, especially in the beginning. It helped me to savor each day with my baby (and to remember what day it was). I love that I can look back and remember when he did something for the first time, or compare how much he is eating now to how much he was eating then.

But a few days after he turned eight months, I decided to stop. I just felt like it was time to give it up. I knew I couldn't possibly record every little detail of our lives indefinitely. So I stopped.

At first it was scary. I couldn't remember which side I nursed him on last, or when he woke up from his last nap. I felt a bit scatterbrained, but I got used to it. And after a few days, it was liberating! No more clock watching, no more repetitive "Mama to work today and Luc to Granny's house," and sitting there thinking, geez we really didn't do anything at all yesterday.

But now I miss it. I feel a little lost without it. I think of things all the time that I want to write down. Really important little tidbits about our day, an experience we had, something Luc did, something I felt, something he ate...

And I say all this to warn you, my dear readers (especially those of you who are always asking me to blog more often), that I'm thinking about blogging those tidbits. And however unblogworthy they may be, I'll try to make them at least a little interesting. But no promises. ___________________________________________

And speaking about blogging, I've been having some trouble with Blogger lately. I have quite a few posts in the queue, some with unexplained formatting errors, some that are waiting for pictures, and one (the beach pictures I promised some of you I'd post last week) that got eaten right before I was ready to publish. I'll try to fix everything and catch up soon.