shame on me...

yes. it has been more than a month since i posted last. i am officially a bad blogger. i was thinking the other day about quitting the blogger world...i've just been SO bad at it lately...it seemed silly to continue. but that got me thinking about why i blog in the first place. is it to be internationally recognized for my amazing talents and extraordinary beauty? ahem...no. the main reason i sit in front of this computer screen, staring at that blinking cursor is simply because i want a record of my life. as insignificant as it may seem to the rest of the world, it is my life and someday, i want my children and my grandchildren to have tangible evidence of the daily, mundane details of life lived. it's the same reason people used to sit down with pen and paper...to leave a legacy...and with that in mind, i couldn't walk away from it all. something is better than nothing, right?
so. in an effort to improve my blogging ability, i'm giving myself prompts. daily assignments if you will. so many times i sit down in front of the computer and cannot think of one single thing to blog about. seems silly since so many moments throughout the day i find myself composing posts in my head. with these following prompts, i hope to alleviate some of the writer's block i seem to be experiencing lately...

• MONDAY - "scenes from daily life". i've already posted a few of these...they could include pictures or just a story taken from our everyday moments.
• TUESDAY -"ten on tuesday". ten things that are going through my head that day...
• WEDNESDAY - "wordless wednesday". a post with simply a picture. (this one i KNOW i can do!)
• THURSDAY - "so. funny story". i just realized the other day that i start a LOT of stories this way...so i decided to turn it into a regular feature. we'll see how it goes...
• FRIDAY -  "blast from the past". a picture or story that i meant to write about but never got around to...

i'm not sure i'll be posting every day right away...it might take me some time to get into the habit of doing that...but i would like to be there someday. for now, at least, if i sit down in front of the computer on a tuesday, i know i have something to write about...

and now...what's a blog post without a picture?

lucy kate and her first piggys...