By: teri on October 21, 2009

Introduction:
I have kept pretty detailed records of my children. Norm likes to joke about how I can tell you how many times Jaxon pooped for the first 3 months of his life. Looking back, many of the records that I kept are useless, though at the time I didn’t think so. With Tyler I got a little smarter and didn’t keep track of certain things and I also got more practical about being precise, well, actually, about not being precise. I realized that looking back I didn’t need to know down to the minute or even really the day of most things. Just a general time frame. When someone asks when your kids got their teeth or did “fill in the blank” I find that if you are in the correct month that is usually sufficient.
Unfortunately, with Tyler I lot so many things slip by. You wouldn’t think it would be so hard to make note of something when it happens but for some reason it just is. I lie in bed and write stuff about their days in my head and tell myself that tomorrow I will do it, but I don’t. And then tomorrow turns into days and weeks away and I forget what it is or when it actually happened.

So I am going to attempt to change that. Right now with AJ I am still keeping track of his eating during the night (yes, I’m still feeding him in the middle of the night) and since he isn’t sleeping much I’d like to keep track of his naps during the day and just his overall schedule so we can make it right and get some consistency around here.

To be honest, I like records in general. I have budget records dating back to 2001 and I could tell you how much we spent in our “grocery” category for any month. Not that any of that matters, but it is kind of cool to look back on stuff like that… and usually laugh.
I love keeping track of my workouts and weight measurements.
All these things I do for certain periods of time and then stop for no apparent reason and then try to start again.
I’d like to make a change for all of it.

There is something about writing things down on paper. I’m not entirely sure of what it is, but I like it. I like having a book that I can write in. Ideally, I’d have one for each subject. Jaxon, Tyler, AJ, myself, workout, etc. But truth is, I’m a much faster typer than I am a writer and on the computer it is always legible. Plus, most likely it will be longer lasting.

So I figured it makes sense to use our web site. I think of it as our Photo Journal, but we’ve made some posts in the past and it already is cool looking back on it. So wish me luck. And if you are reading these things and you don’t see anything for a awhile tell me to get on it! Let’s start with AJ.