Perfect start?
The concept of chronicling the lives of my daughter Ashley, granddaughter Nora and myself began many moons ago. Ashley and I have talked about this often on our adventures. Normally it would come up after doing something a bit off-kilter and thinking “we need to remember this one”! We aren’t doing this because we feel our lives are that much more interesting or special compared to those around us. Like most, we normally have loads of fun, some blunders, but have an innate ability to shrug things off and laugh at our situations.
The reason for this site is a bit more self-serving. It’s a way to catalog periods of time, and our thoughts in normal daily activities and travels. Along the way, if we can introduce some levity to others and, just maybe help someone feel like they are not alone in things or make another person giggle at our missteps, well, that is considered a success in our books!
We both lead busy lives (we will share more about that as we move along in this). With that said, for this project to make it out of our thoughts and talks it was going to be up to me to launch. I have enough knowledge on blogging, web design, photo editing, etc. to not look a hack but there is one thing holding this project back from making it into the public domain.
That one thing is not a lack of ambition. It is not a lack of ideas or content, as we have plenty. It’s not even necessarily a lack of time (although I do have a full-time job and run my own company also) the thing that has kept this site from launching on my projected date of March 15, no wait, April 1st……..ummmmm May 1st (seriously, this will be the date) but here I am on September 1st finally putting finishing touches on our ability to document our lives…the thing keeping us in the dark is perfectionism.
I want things to be perfect. I want our logo to look the way I have it visioned. I feel the need to have my years of photos better organized so I can access them at a whim. I want the perfect color scheme. I want the perfect font. I want the stars to align, my dogs to not shed, the grass to cut itself, and to sit in front of this site and have it look beautiful, as beautiful, and interesting as my mind visions it.
As you may now realize, I am a dreamer and an unapologetic one at that! The stars will never fully align, my life has not been that way ever. I have two huskies, they shed year-round. If I lived somewhere without grass to mow at least part of the year, I’d be sad.
This leaves me with having our site look as cool as my mind thinks it should. My life normally is and always has been a bit of a hot mess. I thrive in chaos. I sometimes create chaos (my husband would attest to that). I really do not know what rational part of my brain thinks that when we launch this site any part of it will be perfect. Unless I balance it with the brand of “perfect” I live in daily. That brand of perfect has me still looking for someone to draft the logo. I did have my daughter-in-law Angela organize my digital photos a bit for easier searches. Ashley gave me input on the color scheme. The font, well that will have to wait for a different day.
Today....I will publish our first blog on our perfectly imperfect site and welcome anyone who wishes to join us in our adventures.
“Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.” — Dalai Lama
