Introduction

I am a 41-year-old woman who has a 9-year-old daughter. I find myself pregnant with a second child. As cliche as it may be, time does go by so fast with a growing child. My husband bought some new video software so he was able to post the short videos we had taken of my daughter up on the web. I hadn't watched these since they were taken four and two years ago. The leap of growth and maturity, even the change of the voice, is startling.

I know this will be my last child. And so, I am using this blog as a way to document both of their lives. I have never been able to write a diary, because it is difficult to write to myself. But if I can feel that I am writing a letter to them, as a sort of picture scrapbook, then I am hoping that the words and the energy to write will come more easily.