A Labor of Love

Today the FedEx man could not drive fast enough!  All day long I checked the tracking number of a package set to arrive today!  Today was the day Blog Book #2 was set to arrive!  I was pumped!!

Once Christmas wrapped up around the house, it was my goal to begin the final editing process for my extensive and very treasured blog book.  Surprisingly, when Ben was born, I made it a daily goal to work on the book while the kids napped or once they went to bed.  I suffered over the gazillions of pictures I have of the kids, technically looking at them all so I would be sure to capture the moments in the most perfect way I have written about on the blog . 

And tonight, during bath time at the Baileys, I hear Bubba call my name and turn as he walks into the bathroom holding a treasure I want my children to cherish one day! 

I know it is so dweeby of me to admit, but my eyes puddled as I flipped through the pages.  This book is a part of my heart and soul.  I can’t freeze time, but I can write on this blog, as much as I can remember about these days with my precious babies and have it captured in a book for them to look back on one of these days. 

This book was just slightly more in depth than my last!   The first edition of my blog book came in at 154 pages.  I thought that was over the top.  Until, I ordered this one and discovered it was 432 pages.  I don’t want to lose even one single memory!

I suppose it is because I am anal.  Maybe just  a worry wart.  I treasure all the billions of photos I have of the little loves beyond words.  I write on this blog as a way to help me remember even the smallest of milestones or memories my children have.  And one day I thought, what would I ever do if the world of internet disappeared.  From that worrisome thought, came the yearly blog book. 

Even now, I love flipping back through the first book to reminisce about when Charlie and Wylie were little babies.  And as time seems to be moving faster and faster these days, I can only imagine what a mess I will be one night in the approaching future when one of the girls is out on a date, or Charlie is heading to pick up his girlfriend or Ben is on a sports trip out of town and I am stuck at home, worrying Bubba to death, and I decide to pick up this book and travel back in time for a moment. 

I wrote this quote to my babies on the final page of this years book.  I love it.  What a better way to sum up why I write on this blog in the first place! 

Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, and the things you never want to lose!