Mini entry .. real quick and on the run

I guess, the bulk posting of letters I have already written to you isn't going to happen ... in bulk, anyway. Turns out, my English was even worse back then than it is nowadays - so every entry, I must proof-read and edit. It's strange, how we lack a sense of ourselves in the present and only in hindsight are able to make judgments based on observations we were unable to make at the time. It's called subjectivity, I believe. ;)  I just always thought, I can be a quite objective person.

This lack of self-recognition became even clearer, when friends made comments on personality traits of mine, which I was completely unaware of. For example, the fact that I may be a tiny bit of a control freak, which I totally admit now (and you probably know that I am using the word 'tiny' sarcastically), really took me by surprise. I did _not_ see myself that way. I always thought I was cool and easy-going. But my friends are telling me I try to take charge of every situation. -- It's because nobody else is! ;)  Nonetheless, I try to control this impulse now. Even though, it's hard to just stand by and watch sometimes - although, it's much less work.

Anyway...
I have a few things to say now ... as we go along ... so the archive ("bulk") posting is going to happen later but I'll date it in a way that it falls into spots preceding this entry.

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I wanted to write about this morning ... or our often difficult mornings but now I can't write anymore. Must run to help a friend and then continue running to pick you guys up from school!

Introduction to This Blog

I have realized that writing letters to my children and keeping them in a text file on my computer somewhere lacks depth and possibly discoverability (not a word, I know) in case I die. I want to be able to add links to articles, recordings of my motherly "sermons" that spring to mind while driving, or songs I sang to them at night (maybe I'll skip those for my dignity's sake). I want to share videos, such as Earl Nightingale's "The Strangest Secret in The World", although, I haven't tested whether that theory actually works, yet.

Because I have procrastinated with the creation of this blog for so long now, I have to start with bulk postings of letters I wrote to them when they were little. Let's see if I can modify the post dates according to the time I penned these messages.And if it works then this introduction is probably soon going to be buried between old and new entries. If that is the case, I'll probably try to fit it into the blog description.

Last but not least, from now on, I will write by addressing them personally - just as I do in my PC-captivated letters.