New reasons to blog

I have increased my blogging this month for two reasons:

1. I found out you can turn your blog into a book using sites like blurb which is way cool, because that was holding me back. I thought that if I was going to spend time writing about events and posting pictures, then I should scrapbook so I'd have a hard copy. By blogging about it and printing it into a book, I will be able to do way more journaling, and it will be like a journal and a scrapbook (both of which I have struggled to do regularly). So that is very motivating to me- and SO much easier than getting all the scrapbook stuff out.

2. My friends from my old ward in Bountiful found me and I started reading their blogs and found out about posting links as blogs rather than links, and then you can list what time friends post and the name of their post, which lets me see at a glance, who has something new to say, rather than randomly checking for updates. It also tells me the title of their post and i can guess if it's something that looks interesting to me... ;) I've been surprised how many people update almost daily and I've found that there really is something to say every day (like a journal) and it's just too addicting to find out all this fun stuff about my friends and family. (And I want to keep myself near the top so that's more motivation to keep posting).

So yeah, Adam says I'm addicted to blogging now, and maybe it's just a trend, but I'm having fun and for a semi-stay at home Mom, it helps me feel connected.