To Blog or not to Blog?

That is the question?

Why Blog?
Blog is defined as:
(a blend of the term web log) is a type of website or part of a website. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

Most blogs are interactive, allowing visitors to leave comments and even message each other via widgets on the blogs and it is this interactivity that distinguishes them from other static websites.

Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, Web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability of readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (art blog), photographs (photoblog), videos (video blogging), music (MP3 blog), and audio (podcasting). Microblogging is another type of blogging, featuring very short posts.

As of 16 February 2011, there were over 156 million public blogs in existence. Citation is most reliable: Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog, Retrieved on April 12, 2010.

In the beginning I had a blog because I wanted to share our adoption journey with our family and well. . . our family was farther away than we cared for, so this was a way to share the story. It was private, only invited people could access it. My girls and our process was private way back then. Then the girls came home and well. . . it became public. I thought the girls are home, everything is legal and well, why not let others view "the blog". I'm not really a political blogger, I don't have a particular style to blogging. I pretty much use the blog as an online diary of some sort. To share snapshots of our family with others that know us and that well. . . we don't know, since IT IS public. I hope that some people reading feel as though they could adopt children from another country and that it's not a far away, non achievable goal. I hope that for some, the blog is just funny at times. I hope for some it's taken serious as some of the posts are, serious that is. . . .

I find it interesting that somedays I really want to share the random thoughts that float throughout my dura matter and other days I want to be quiet and not share. Before I post, I always ask myself is this something I will regret sometime in the future or even after I hit the "Publish Post" button.

I wish I knew more of my visitors. I know some of them by their locations and others by their email or FB posts. . . I know my husband claims to be a contributor of the blog, but rarely posts although does read often :-). Sometimes this is how he knows what's on my mind!

So I guess I blog to remember certain specific things, other times I blog because I have to put something together like a PPT or a short video clip and I know I'll keep those as keepsakes. I hope that someday my girls will publish a post about something random. That would be cool . . . For now, I'll just keep rambling and hopefully someone will find some meaning in it. For now, I say good-bye!