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i totally love this random shot taken during noah's shin dig in new mexico. a totally non posed shot that captures noah and his daddy enjoying a cool summer day. this picture got me thinking about the act of blogging.

you know when i first hear about this, i rolled my eyes at the idea of the blog (aka weB LOG- that is where the word blog comes from). but then i jumped on the bandwagon over a year ago. i thought about why it was that i started and it was really 4 fold:

1. i wanted people who wanted to know about maya road to meet me and get to know who i am and where i am coming from. i have a family. i have hobbies. i have a life outside of scrapbooking too! there is a human aspect to our company and this is one way to get out there and have people see who we are and what we stand for. i am just like all the other hundreds of thousands of scrapbookers out there - i hoard supplies, i use products from all types of companies, i just happen to own one with my sister (which is a total advantage when say, you decide that your baby boy needs some more boy embellishments so you all can make some).

2. i want people to understand what we struggle with and enjoy as a small business. there is so much to think about and this sort of thing isn't something you jump into easily for a lot of people.

3. and finally, i have come to accept that this is a way to journal like i haven't done since i was in high school. albeit a much more public forum, but i was looking back at my posts and i can visually see how my own evolution into who i am today and who maya road is today has taken place. i can see when we annouced that we were having a baby to finding out it was a boy to the 15 lb baby noah i have now. it really is really cool to see it all in one place - my thoughts, my photos, my feelings. and i do plan on printing out my blog and putting it in an album as a journal for myself b/c it is so easy to forget things - little things that i want to remember a year from now.

so well, i will continue to blog - doesn't matter if 100 people read it or i read my blog alone. it has become sort of an extension of who i am and what i do.

PS - don't forget about my RAK in the last post, i keep putting more and more things in the cigar box so post if you want to win!