Is this MOMENTOUS enough?

So here it is. I've been planning to get my blog started for over a year now. The problem, where do you start? It feels so important. The laying of a foundation. The setting of a tone. The beginning of a story of undetermined length. Something that you can't really take back once it's out there.

I'm the type that relishes life's little moments. Buying ladybugs to set free amidst our container garden on the back patio. Getting a postcard from abroad. Eating a banana on its first day home when it's still green and barely peelable. Stumbling upon a sale for something I was already planning to buy. Little girl hugs. Baby belly laughs. Life. Love it.

Naturally, when you delight in small details, there seems to be plenty to blog about. And, time after time, I think "this photo would be great on my blog" or "this would be a fun story I'd like to have a record of". Today, it would have been a big, fat, green, surprise caterpillar that crawled out of our farm-fresh produce (and who is now oblivious to his containment in a fake-Tupperware plastic bowl as he happily munches on broccoli greens and carrot tops). But I just had to let those moments pass by and be recorded only in memory because I simply couldn't sit down and commit to a first post. It just seems so momentous. My first post couldn't have been about a random caterpillar or how pretty my orange peel looked in my sink on the way down the drain, right? ...even though I'm sure I will later spiral out of control into randomness, what kind of foundation is that to begin with? It's just not *momentous*.

So, that starts me thinking. What would be momentous enough? For me, that would be the arrival of my two children. Cliche, perhaps, but truly the two days our lives changed forever in ways we never could have anticipated. The moments when we remembered again what it is to fall in love. So here they are as they were on their precious first days when we laid a new foundation for our lives as a family. Enjoy! ...and don't be surprised to find a hungry caterpillar or a photo of some fruity remnants in my next post. Those moments, too, are just hopping around looking for a solid place to land.