My Latest Project

As I was looking over my blog, I realized that I had quite a few posts and a pretty extensive life history going. I started wondering if I should somehow get all the posts printed out and form a bound journal to sit on the bookshelf for the kids or Nate to read whenever they wanted to. It really hasn't turned out that hard because I decided to keep the process very simple. Just copy and paste into a Word document and make the comments smaller text but leave everything else as is. No messing around with placement or font, just put it on there. There are however 3 years if posts which is a bit time consuming, but since I am a gimp person now what else have I got to do? Well, I guess I could take on organizing all my recipes........it still just sounds too painful. Maybe this is the month for that though, maybe.... Anyway, it has been interesting to see what I have blogged about over the years and how I have changed and the comments people have made. I'm going to have to stock up on paper and ink though because the first year came out to be 39 pages and year 2 is at 104 pages. I also notice while I was looking through some of the posts that I had some misspellings and grammatical errors and wondered if I should correct them, I didn't. I like to keep things pretty real, flaws and all. When I sit down to write a post I don't leave it and come back to it. I sit down, write it and look over it 1 or 2 times to make sure my ramblings make some sort of sense and then I post it and walk away. I like to keep things in the moment and more like an actual conversation would occur so what you see is what you get. In doing this project it has made me sad that I haven't done a better job at keeping an actual journal throughout the years and Nate doesn't think this a completely accurate way of doing that since I hold back because I know people are going to be reading my thoughts now and not after I'm dead. I do hold back a little and not every detail is covered, but I think it is a pretty good representation of the kind of person I am and the life I live and I'm a pretty honest gal and I only seem to be getting more honest the older I get. If nothing else I'm happy that I can leave some way for my own children to get to know who Heather was and not just who their Mom was and hopefully it helps them out in their own lives. Like I mentioned in my "Presents" post, all we have to leave behind is a piece of ourselves, our true contribution- who we were.