The Beginning

Ever since I started stalking certain friend's blogs online, I knew that I wanted to become a blogger too.

Earlier this year, I started our family blog, and have really enjoyed keeping that one update for family and friends to read. It also serves as a great memory book, because heaven knows when I will be able to scrapbook again. My only partially completely honeymoon book tells you how good I ever was at it in the first place.

But I was also inspired to write another kind of blog. A blog that is not our family blog, but a blog just for me. To embrace my nerdy side. To record my thoughts about life, God, marriage, and mommyhood. A blog that has less pictures and more words. To let me process. To let me learn. To let me remember.

Why not write these things on the other blog? Because as I am very selectively organized, I enjoy categorizing the blogs as the "family" blog and "my" blog. And as Jonathan prefers to distance himself from my nerdy side, I would hate for someone to read that "I love drinking coffee on the couch on a raining day while diving into Michael Phillip's latest novel" and assume the "I" is Jonathan because it was on the "family" blog. Don't laugh. It could happen :)

I highly intend for this blog to be random in its topics, but I'm excited to at least have a place to record my randomness.

The name for the blog is inspired from this expected wide spectrum of topic. Not-so-important blogs "a penny for your thoughts" to the deeper issues I think about and want to remember "and Mary treasured these things and pondered them in her heart"will find themselves on this page.

Here's to the pennies and ponderings......