Small Things with Great Love

We can do no great things, only small things with great love.

- Mother Teresa

Two years ago in April, I started this blog. Two years! Lillianna was just 8 months old and I was taking pictures of her everyday and trying to remind myself to write down all the adorable stuff she was doing. Then at a birthday party for our sweet friend Lydia, I talked to her Aunt, my friend iMollie about her blog. At the time, I didn't know much about blogging and had never heard of a parenting/mom/family-ish blog. But it sounded like a great way to journal, share, and most of all to connect with others. I was really excited about the opportunity to easily share pics and stories about Lillianna with our family since we live away from all of them. So I started one and started writing to Lillianna'a grandparents, Aunts and close friends that I knew would love to see adorable her and hear about all the predictable antics of parenting.

Two years later, I am amazed at how much blogging has become an invaluable way of involving our family and friends in our daily life as well

as a wonderful source of community for me as a Mom.

When I started it, I didn't think about what would become of the blog, I was just happy to know my Mom had pictures for a new screen saver at work each week. Then I realized that it was the best (or only!) baby book, scrapbook, journal, or love letter I was keeping for Lillianna. So then I began to worry about what would become of my blog. Should I start printing the posts and putting them in binders? Then I came across the perfect (I hoped) solution: blurb.com

This company has free software that downloads your blog so that you can edit it, send it back to them, and then they print it in a hard-back book in less than 2 weeks! I had to try it.

So I worked on one that encompasses my first year of blogging and it arrived in the mail last week!

Overall, I was very pleased. The software was user friendly and the quality of the book is awesome. I didn't think the templates or lay-outs for the pages were great, especially if your post includes many pictures. The editing options were also a bit limiting but I didn't explore all the options either. I will say that I am very excited about starting Volume 2 which will include my whole second year of blogging. Most of all, I'm just so glad I started this and so very glad to know that the girls will have it forever.

Thanks Mollie!