I wrote a post entitled I like blogs
(You can go read it if you like. I’ll wait.)
It’s a cyclical thing, I think, the way ppl come and go in various places on line. 4 years ago we were all starting up blogs and diarising our lives to the nth degree. Well, actually I wasn’t all that good at it then, I think the very small Small kind of got in the way rather. But I grew into it, as he grew out of me, as it were, and now, still I wouldn’t be without it.
The blog isn’t so much about the children and their learning any more, and it’s likely to be even less so as of next week. That’s not to say I won’t share those little milestones, you know I will. But they are for me as much as for you, loyal reader 😉 , and hopefully for my children to look back on and wonder in years to come.
Yes, of course I worry about the bad things I’ve blogged, the times life hasn’t been running smoothly. But I can’t help feeling that having the record might at least mean that my children will never live in some revisionist future where it was all their fault – I know perfectly well that my patience is less than perfect, and it was me wanting to spend time along, or reading, or crafting or whatever at least as much if not more so than it was them being less than ideal. I miss the blogs of ppl who’ve disappeared from the blogosphere, or who no longer twitch aside their curtain for us to peer in, in the same way I would miss a friend who moved away and didn’t leave a forwarding address.
It’s an odd place, this virtual neighbourhood. Ppl do come and go, and sometimes it’s in the virtual dead of night. But it’s the nearest thing I have to a community, and that’s why I’m still here. Yes, I blog for myself, and I think I’d probably do it in a notebook with a pencil if teh internets disappeared, but I also blog for the audience. I blog for redemption, for validation, for hugs and laughs and to know I’m not alone.
It’s long past delurking week. I always miss it. But if you’re reading and you fancy delurking, please feel free. It would be nice to get to know you all too.
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