So I begin...

About a year after Reed was born, I started writing in a journal to capture the cute little things he did and said, and how he was growing. It was hard to keep up with! Even more so after Amy arrived....I never even did start on her journal, though I certainly intended to. Instead what I found myself doing was making notes within my Outlook e-mail account -- so I wouldn't forget things, I'd type up a quick note with the date, and I had every intention of then moving things over to the journals. I really wanted it to be a handwritten account of the kids' early years, but I got further and further behind, before I just gave in to keeping the notes electronically.

Now the Notes feature in Outlook isn't exactly pretty, and I can't include pictures. So as I've started reading the blogs of friends (and Tod has one too), then I read that there are companies that will print your blog for you, I thought this is the way to go. So I'll start here and maybe I'll bring in some of those old notes too, I'm not sure how it's all going to work out.

The name "...notes to myself..." just came to me as I was setting things up. My wonderful mother, back in the days she worked at NALC, would write herself a note on a Post-It note. She'd write "NTM" and then whatever it was - stop at grocery store, bring in treats, whatever. NTM = Note to Myself. Then she'd staple the note around her purse strap. I thought it was so funny that she needed to include the NTM part, as if she'd come home with a note on her purse and if she didn't write NTM, Jim would say "hey, I guess I better pick up the dry cleaning". Not!