So I was at a friend’s birthday party in Houston when a fellow Blogger-Mom told me about Blurb.com

This way-cool website is a way to turn your blog posts into a photography book! You just download the free App called BookSmart they have on their site, and then upload your applicable blog posts directly into a template or custom book format!

They have lots of options on page sizes and a hard cover vs. soft cover choice so you spend only as much money as you want to when you order it. How neat! When Laura showed me her beautiful hard cover baby book, I thought it must have been something like $100 to have made, but she only paid $30!

For all you photographers, your photos don’t have to be in a blog already. I’d like to see a few of my talented friends and family publish a book of your snapshots… cha ching! : )

I am so excited to have this fun motivation to blog regularly about Baby Hannah! I’ve had a terrible time finding a baby book that I’m happy with, and now I can make my own : ) How cool!

I have had this blog up for about a half a year. It’s interesting how my phases in posting go. As I’ve started to follow other personal blogs, I have noticed that posting is often few and far between. People do not often make a post unless something major is going on in life, or if they have the time to make a time-worthy post. On the other hand, there has been a jump in popularity of things like Twitter, which allows for simple updates similar to the “status updates” on Facebook. People just post what they are doing, or some short little phrase about what’s going on in life. I can see the value in this, but it lacks a lot of flexibility. If you want to post pictures or media of some kind, you have to link to it. Also, you are limited in word count and in other ways.

So I found myself in a strange conundrum. I would like to post in this blog more often, but I usually don’t find the things I want to post as being worthy of a full blog post. But, they also seem out of place on Twitter or the status update in Facebook. So something that was more in between seemed like a good solution. Fortunately, I recently found something that seems to fit the bill. So I made a new website on Tumblr. It allows for quick and easy posts, like Twitter, but also is quite flexible with media, links, and other things, like a regular blog. I hope to keep more regular posting on my “tumblelog,” but still keep this blog for longer thoughts or posting multiple pictures, etc.

We’ll see how things go. =)

http://bmlowe.tumblr.com

So I realized I never made an “intro post” for this blog. This is my attempt to do so… Hopefully this site will just be a way for me to journal the on-going things in my life and my thoughts. We’ll see how seriously I stay at it. 

For now though, if you look under the title you can see there is a little menu thing with a link to “Cheryl Shares…” That is my wife Cheryl’s blog, so check it out because its much better than mine.  Anyway, I hope to add some more links up there eventually as appropriate. Once I get a few more posts up, I’ll start fiddling a bit with labels and organization.

May God bless you here as His plans and character unfold through my life. He is delightful! We see Him through nature, children, hugs, family, music, and even trials. Let us serve Him with a willing, joyful, and expectant heart!