Why Am I Doing This?

On occasion I get wild ideas.  Today I had one.  I've had it before, even done it before, but it came again.  "I should start a blog."

Sometime after I had my oldest son I started a blog to chronicle him.  It continued for a while after I had my second son, but then I stopped.  Because, well, I had 2 kids and something had to give.

A couple of years ago, I thought about starting back up to, again, chronicle my now 3 kids.  I got as far as naming the blog.  I didn't even publish a post.

So here we are again.  The idea to start blogging resurrects itself.  But this time it feels a little different.  I've been thinking that I need a place for me, a place to be a little creative and a place to express myself.  I chose the name 'Raising Herr,' because I'm raising 3 little Herrs, but also because most days I still feel like I'm raising myself.  I feel like that makes me sound a bit more damaged than I am, but I think you get the point.  I'm nearly 9 years in to being a mom, but everyday I make mistakes and learn something new.  Every year I vow to be healthier than I was the year before, to be more present with my family, to build more experiences into our life and to do my job just a little bit better.  The slow creep to becoming the me I want to be continues this year.

At this point, I have no idea were this is going to go, or what I'm really going to talk about.  I'm just going to share my life--what we did, what I'm thinking, maybe what we eat, perhaps an outfit or two I love.  But mostly, I'm hoping to chronicle my journey in becoming a better me.