My First Post

why start a blog? i've been wanting to start a blog for a while now for several reasons. i've always enjoyed writing. since the birth of both of my little monkeys, i've been keeping journals for each of them. i write in them periodically about the things they're doing now, their milestones, things i don't want to forget about their childhood. my plan is to keep up these journals throughout their childhood and then someday pass them on to them when they're grown. i think it will be neat for them to see from mom's perspective what they were like as children and the memories i cherish of their childhood. i also hope this blog will be a good way for me to journal events of our everyday life that i don't want to forget. time flies and the days get crazy and there is so much i don't want to forget and i'm so afraid i will. the older i get, the worse my memory gets. another reason, we have lots of friends and family that we don't get to see as often as we'd like so this is a good way to keep everyone in-the-know and share pictures. hopefully i'll entertain you more than bore you to death!

why call it monkey business? well, that's easy. we've always been ones to come up with pet names for each other and that certainly didn't stop with our boys. since the birth of our first, we've called them our little monkeys. so it seemed fitting to name a blog journaling the daily events of our monkeys "monkey business". and just for the record, you'll often see i refer to the boys as doodlebug, aka ethan, and peanut, aka justin.

so there you go. this is the first entry of my blog. i hope i can keep up with entries and i hope you'll enjoy reading it as much as i enjoy writing it. 'til next time....