Matt's First ever Blog Post - T-1 day til we go public!

I’ve purposefully never blogged before.  I’d like to start my first venture into doing so with that disclaimer intended for certain friends, since as a passionate person I tend to be extremely vocal in my likes and dislikes.    Yes is funny that now I blog, enjoy the laugh.  This was just the first actual reason I had to blog.  This is the modern diary, a thing to be left behind and enjoyed by later generations, see how primitive and strange they seemed.  I suppose plenty of people keep modern diaries, but I surely don’t know any of them and it seems a strange alien thing for people to do.  So yeah, I’m blogging.  I don’t intend to suggest anyone read it but who knows.

I can’t say I really know my parents, or for that matter, anyone in my generation’s very well.  Sure, they’re around and I know what sorts of music they listen to, what percentage of them have some funny or sometimes sad biases, and various other trivia.  In the case of my own parents I do have quite a collection of fun facts about them.  What I don’t have is any idea what they were actually like when I was of the toddling and later ages.   Lately I have conceived an idea of what that untold story is like, every time I see my friend’s children being surrounded by the unusual and distinct circumstances they are put into when they come to visit us at our house.  I just keep thinking how mommy and daddy’s life goes on completely outside of their consciousness. 

                In an effort to let my own children have the opportunity, I intend to make a series of reality-TV style videos of me talking to future kid (i.e. when they’re at some imaginary adult-ish age) in the level of honesty and vocabulary that an adult can handle.  I intend it to include the dumb things I do at the same time, but also what’s going on in my life, how parenting is, etcetera.   I am fully aware this could be cancelled after I watch a few of these videos, but it sounds fun and I’m committed.   I would LOVE to have had just a brief conversation with my dad when he was at the age I am now, a time he must have been an entirely different person mentally and physically.  I feel that would be part of the complete experience of being his son.  So maybe it’ll be cool in a decade or two, I have no idea.  Cloud storage and HD webcams make keeping something like this around effortless.

                Tomorrow (6/18) is the day we finally “go public” with the whole baby thing.  I didn’t do super well with waiting 12 weeks, so most of my friends have known since as few as 5.  I’m excited, and it took a long time to happen!     I will keep trying this “blogging” thing as we go.  Tomorrow is the beginning of a new era!