Naomi Stories Preface

Well, I just saw Jeff's comment on another blog re: his excitement about my yearly blog, and was just thinking this morning that I should start documenting my life stories. I was journaling (I know what you're thinking, why journal when you can share your innermost thoughts online with everyone!?!), and trying to remember what I really liked to do as a child in the hopes that I could glean some life direction from it, and I remembered that I always loved Dr. Seuss books, but more the moral-ly ones like The Lorax and The Butter Battle Book. I was really bummed when I did my senior project on Dr. Seuss in high school and discovered that his most popular and beloved book was The Cat in the Hat. What kind of moral message does that have? But, then as I reflected more I realized that every time I've tried to write something that had some sort of deep message, it was kind of crap, but the stories I tell that are just my ridiculous observations that don't really go anywhere, those are better. So, maybe I should just always stick to Cat in the Hat in terms of my own writing.

Okay, all that (way too much) to say that I'm going to just start capturing my Cat in the Hat stories on my blog and saving them so that I have a collection for Linus and anyone else who wants to look back at the silly stuff that I've witnessed along the way. I believe I've already captured the bunny story, the Bot fly story (Ann, you may want to read that one again - I hope the link still works!), and the Blackberry jam story. All classics!

I'll post another oldie, but as Jeff suggested, I'll probably have a lot of really good ones from when my whole family comes out for a week in a few weeks. Stay tuned!