Introduction

In the past I have made attempts at starting a blog but could never quite stick with it. Perhaps I find our lives are too uninteresting for anyone else to read about (though we do quite enjoy them). Now, though, I have a reason to stick with this one. One very special reason. We are expecting! Baby Sheldon is due in late August 2012.

This is a very exciting time for us and we want to document as much of it as possible. The motivation behind this is two-fold. One, we don’t live next door to all of our friends and family. So this will be a way for us to keep everyone in the loop. The second, and in my opinion most important reason, is that someday when Baby Sheldon asks us about how he or she came in to the world (sans the birds and the bees talk), we can show them this. I’m sure I will add in things that are completely unrelated to them (recipes, adventures etc.) but I hope that they will get as much out of it as we will. How cool would it have been if my parents had done this for me? Unfortunately, Al Gore hadn’t invented the internet in 1985.

My hope is that I can keep this blog up as our family expands and use it as a way to document our family’s adventures. This is a big New Year’s resolution for me and I’m determined to commit to it (Matt too of course- not by choice). I will try to post at least once a week and perhaps more often as we get closer to the due date. Expect lots of belly pictures (sorry Josh, Jordan and Joel), some yummy gluten-free recipes (perhaps a blog post explaining that is in order), and a whole lot of parentheses (I really like adding witty notes).