Getting Started

So Erica and Casey have inspired me. If they can start and maintain a blog with their crazy busy lives, then I have no excuse. I know how much I love seeing that they've posted something new -especially because I know that when I read Casey's, it's like I can hear her speaking what's she's written and I'm able to hear her voice in my head, especially when she's fussing about Steve :) I feel that because so many of us have so much going on and changing in our lives this will be a diary for me to look back on more than anything.

After much debate in a coffee shop in Birmingham (and a lot of inappropriate blog title possibilities), Erica has held my hand and walked me through setting this up and deciding on a name. This was not an easy task. I'm not a cutesie person, I'm not an emo person, I'm not touchy-feely, and I'm definitely not funny. So that effectively narrowed the list of possibilities. As we were discussing what type of person I am, I realized the best way to describe myself was to say, "well, I'm basically turning into my mother." Thus, the title of my blog.

I feel like the act of turning into one's mother is something that every female faces the older she gets. I've also realized that the older you get, the more you finally start to understand where your mom has been coming from all these years. At least this has been my experience. I don't foresee this really changing as I get older, so my blog title should be able to withstand the test of time, assuming that I manage to actually maintain it. If I don't, I'll blame it on my mother, I guess.