And so it begins....

Blogging you say? Read my blog all the details are on there. Yeah, I put it on my blog. What? You didn't read it? Oh those pics, yeah check out my blog and you can see them there!!

Having these convos makes me feel like my mother, except with blogging. My mother feels this way about all "techie" things, like texting, or how to make a smiley face on an e-mail with the colon and a parenths. I just feel blog inadequate, although I have a few a follow, okay, 3 that I follow I figured why not me? I have a lot of important stuff to say and not nearly enough people to say it to, or enough hours in the day to say it to all the people I need (okay maybe not need, but want) to say it to. So, I will blog about it. Maybe it will make me feel better. Maybe it will make me not talk so much when I am around the people I like being around and I can work on becoming a listener instead. Hmm, maybe that is why I will start am starting my blog....I can enlist about 3 of my friends to read it, probably the same 3 whose blog I read and then I will feel like someone is listening, or at least laughing at me, and with me during this adventure called being a Smith.

So, the title of my blog. Is that changeable? It took me about 4 and a half seconds to come up with my blog title. Why? My name is Melissa Smith. I have been named Melissa Myers, that was my maiden name, then I was Melissa Cuttin, that was my practice marriage name. Now I am Melissa Smith, and so proud to end up where I finally have with the amazing husband that I have. But really, my last name is Smith. I get asked at minimum 4 times a week how to spell that. Seriously? Seriously. Seriously! Smith. S. M. I. T. H. That's it, just Smith. Spellchecker doesn't even highlight Smith, but it does Myers and Cuttin. Why this seems so funny to me I don't know. I think it goes back to the listening thing. If people actually listened when I said "Melissa Smith" they would probably figure out that it is a pretty simple name.

Well, I don't know how you are supposed to start a blog, but this is my first post. I have no idea how often I will be blogging. Maybe once a day, probably more like once a week. So we will set a goal for once a month without any guilt what so ever if I never post another blog.

But in the meantime, here is a picture of what the center of most of my blogs will be about. God love them. They are fearfully and wonderfully made.