Happy New Year!
We are exicted for 2010 - Gregg and I sat down and wrote some goals for the new year. We try to only make realistic goals that we know we can/will accomplish. Some of my personal {but not to personal} goals are:
- do the Woman's Triathlon in May {again}
- get caught up on the family scrapbooks
- learn how to use my camera, external flash and Photoshop
- do a family hike once a month {in the summer}
party over!
I also want to be a better blogger {although I am not sure exactly what/how I want to do that/it ...} I enjoy blogging and I usually enjoy checking in on other peoples blogs. I sometime struggle {wonder} what the purpose of a blog is. I feel like there needs to be a purpose or audience {of relevance} in order to justify my time blogging. Does anyone else ever feel that way? I never know who I am writing too. Who is my audience? Does anyone else ever wonder who their audience is?
PS - are people going to say "two thousand and ten" or "twenty ten"
I also want to be a better blogger {although I am not sure exactly what/how I want to do that/it ...} I enjoy blogging and I usually enjoy checking in on other peoples blogs. I sometime struggle {wonder} what the purpose of a blog is. I feel like there needs to be a purpose or audience {of relevance} in order to justify my time blogging. Does anyone else ever feel that way? I never know who I am writing too. Who is my audience? Does anyone else ever wonder who their audience is?
I am your audience! I think it's fun just to see what other friends are doing and to share ideas!
ReplyDeletePS I say, 20-10
I am your audience as well. And I say two thousand twelve.
ReplyDeleteCamille, I so understand everything that you wrote. but I have a friend that used this quote from Pres. Hinckley to why she blogs and I've come to believe that's why I do it too.
ReplyDelete"To you women of today, who are old or young, may I suggest to you that you write, that you keep journals, that you express your thoughts on paper. Writing is a great discipline. It is a tremendous education effort. It will assist you in various ways, and you will bless the lives of many--now and in the years to come, as you put on paper some of your experiences and some of your musings." ~President Gordon B. Hinckley
The other things is that my Stake President, Kerry Huber says this a lot, "Time makes the extraordinary seem ordinary." What he says he means by this is if we don't write down the blessings and great things that are happening in our lives, that over time everything seems ordinary when at one time it was extraordinary to us.
So this is why I blog even if it's posting picture 2-3 months after they happening. But I want to remember them..
And I love to read blogs and see what amazing things you are up to and accomplishing, and see Truman GROW!! It's so fun.
Love ya JESS
I read your blog!
ReplyDeleteI say twenty ten. And I love your blog. My friend has her blog made into a book every year. That is her scrap book.
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Thanks girls. I am YOUR audience in return!
ReplyDeleteJess- A girlfriend of mine was telling me a similar story that a member of her stake presidency told the woman of their stake (in Idaho). I just don't ever want my blog to be a 'bragging' blog. I try to post meaningful pictures, stories and memories, like a journal. Now I need to figure out how to make it into a book!
Alicia - I need to be added to your blog...will you please add me so I can read your blog??
camillesimons@gmail.com
Ilene - do you know how I get it made into a book? Can you link me to her blog? Thanks.
ReplyDeleteI can't say twenty-ten--for me it will be two thousand ten, long but sounds right to me (no offense to any of you twenty-ten's).
ReplyDeleteAs for a purpose, that is entirely up to you! If it feels to time consuming, do less--just post a quick pic and sentance. I would love to have the time to write and be philisophical, but for me that time is not 'now'. Hopefully someday . . . . do the blog for YOU.
Camille...I read your blog and loving seeing pictures of your sweet family! I know we haven't seen each other since the mish, but with the whole blog thing, I feel like I know what's going on in your life, and I like that.
ReplyDeleteAnd I use my blog as a type of family journal and as a way for far away relatives and friends to see a glimpse of our life whenever they want.
And my vote is for twenty ten.
I think someone might have already said something like this, but a blog to me is a journal. I really only write things that I want to remember. but I really have enjoyed being able to go back to older posts and see the girls growing up and the fun things we did!
ReplyDeleteI blog so I can keep my family updated. I have thought about trying the blog book, but it's still just a thought :)
ReplyDeleteMy vote is for twenty ten! I love your goals you are so driven you amaze me. I have had the goal for like three years now to learn to use my camera. I never want to miss the moment so I always shoot in auto maybe this should be my year to do that also! Love your blog!
ReplyDeleteThanks everyone for the nice comments. I love blogging and of course will continue to do it.
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