Finally Inspired to Post

I have been thinking about this blog for a long time. One theme that has been consistently running through my life since the birth of my son in 2005 is the idea that a family functions best with some sort of routines in place. While I don't consider myself highly structured, I do adhere to routines as much as possible and in my mind, this has made my kids' lives happier and easier and healthier.

I don't know that this blog will mean anything to anyone other than myself and since I write in a journal very often, the need to get my thoughts into a blog wasn't very strong. But all that changed last night.

My husband and I had just arrived home from a great Christmas party put on by our great friends, Chuck and Rachel. It had been a lovely evening and after we got the kids to bed (more on that routine in a future post), I started to flip between "The Bourne Supremacy" and "Titanic" on TV. Usually The Bourne Supremacy would trump any movie, but I found myself drawn to Titanic and watched it pretty much exclusively until its end. Apparently, my husband finds "Titanic" to be an abherration of nature and he has very strong opinions on how it is practically the worst movie ever made and he created a thesis that James Cameron is a bloodsucker trying to capitalize on a historical event that was devastating to so many people (you can check out his fledgling blog at www.alottasense.blogspot.com). And in one swift moment of deciding that complaining to me wasn't gratifying enough for him, he decided to start a blog! And just like that, within minutes, the blog was created and he had completed his first point.

It really got me to thinking. I created this blog months ago, after having thought about the content for a long time. Would I have anything relevant to say to anyone? Would any of it matter? What is the point? All the questions that nag at me and keep me from taking action. Once I actually created the blog template, I didn't write until today (five months later). Yet for my husband, it took literally ten minutes to create the template and post his first rant. He didn't second guess himself, he didn't worry about whether anyone would read it or not, he just wanted to get something off his chest and share his idea of what "common sense" is when it comes to movies like "Titanic."

What does this have to do with routines that create a happy family life? Nothing. But it matters because it was the catalyst to get me starting to write about routines creating a happy family life.

So next post will be about one routine that my family has that in my humble opinion makes our family life smoother and easier and better.

Hopefully it won't take five months to get to writing it.