Why Blog?

I just had a thought. I am blogging because I want my kids to get a glimpse of who I am. Of course they know I am their mother, but I want them to have some way of knowing what I was thinking while they were busy growing up. I also want them to have a tool for understanding the emotional process in our family as they were growing up. I have much to write in this department. I don't want to them to spend years in therapy trying to understand some inner turmoil, though they are free to do so if they chose. I just hope they chose a good systems thinker as their therapist. And then I hope this blog will serve as a resource in their struggle. If I do my job well, my children will have a healthy respect for emotional process and a good awareness of the importance of maintaining self in the world. More on this another time.