Good A Time As Any

My name is Jenn and I'm a blogger.

Typing out that statement somehow makes it more real.  As if now that it's in printed text, I can't take it back. I had made a commitment when I was pregnant with our baby girl that I would write her all these letters. Letters she could look back on and read when she was older and understand the thoughts, emotions and anticipation we had waiting for her arrival. Letters that told her about my hopes and dreams for her childhood and beyond. Letters that described what it was like to feel her move around inside my ever expanding belly. Letters that told her of our surprise when we found out she was coming into our lives. Letters about the endless doctors visits, swollen feet, pregnancy acne, and other joys of pregnancy. Letters about our beautiful wedding and how she was there with us, even though she couldn't see us, we could feel her.

But (insert screeching record), I'm the Director of Meetings for an association, who's 1400 attendee annual meeting was planned for less than a month after my due date. I had no time to write letters to her. Heck - I I barely had time to breath (or I could barely breath) - either way I didn't write those letters. When I did have a free minute, I planned our wedding, got the house ready for her arrival, traveled to Vegas, San Diego, Italy, New Orleans, Central Virginia North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, but mostly... I just slept. Pregnancy exhausted me. I was more tired when I was pregnant than I am now and she's a fast growing 4 month old.

So, now that she IS four months old and growing faster than I ever thought she would I've decided to start a blog. (Sidenote: everyone tells you .... oh it goes so fast and if I had a dollar for every time someone said that to me, I could pay for this terrible habit I've got for buying her adorable clothes that I know will only fit for max two months.)

I'll keep my first post brief. In closing - a list of a few scattered random things about our little family.
1. We live in a house that's 100 years old in Purcellville, VA
2. We found out we were pregnant when we were in New Orleans working with Habitat for Humanity
3. We got engaged in Venice Italy

 4. We got married on March 13, 2010 in a torrential rain (what's that about rain on your wedding day?)
5. Our daughter was born on June 9, 2010 (two 1/2 weeks early)
6. We spent the first 3 months of her life - traveling the east coast - she'd been to every state except FL on the east coast before she was 3 months old.
7. We're both back at work now and figuring out a routine of daycare, nannies, solid foods, cloth diapers, making our own baby food, child development plans, nap schedules, bedtime routines, vaccine schedules and everything in between.

Hopefully my blog will be interesting to read, make you laugh, bring you back for more but most of all, I just have too many random thoughts in my head and I hope this blog provides me with an outlet for them.