New Blog!

Hi family and friends!

I haven't been blogging for quite a while now, but I've been thinking it would be nice to have a little place to chronicle our adventures in homeschooling, parenting, kid stuff, etc. and possibly share it with family or anyone else who's interested. My pictures often get lost in the black hole of the hard drive that holds our millions of pictures (all the good and bad ones, including the 462 pictures I took of the kids swinging on the swings that one day), and although I like to use Instagram to share pictures, I often find myself wanting to write more than people actually want to read on Instagram (including me).

I've learned from experience that I have a terrible memory when it comes to my kids. When I was pregnant with Sierra, and shortly after she was born, I kept asking myself, "When do babies start eating solid foods? When do they roll over? When do they crawl? When do they sleep through the night?" Despite the fact that I had already gone through all of this with Rhonda, I hardly remembered a thing about babies. There are many things I've already forgotten that I wish I'd written down somewhere.

Now that I'm doing preschool at home with Rhonda, I've been itching to record what we've been doing. I write it down in a notebook at the end of the day, but I don't write much, and it feels kind of impersonal, more of a record if the Authorities come calling (which they obviously wouldn't for preschool, but whatever). I do write in a journal, but that's just for me, not really for family stuff.

So, the idea of the blog was born: a place where I could chronicle our activities with plenty of pictures and plenty of words, with the plus that family and friends could take a look if they were interested, and a nicely condensed and curated collection of memories I can look back on in the years to come (when I'll surely be asking myself, "What the heck did we do for preschool?"). Welcome to Hubbards at Home!