I have a shockingly bad memory. For example, The day before yesterday I made a doctors appointment. The appointment was for the VERY NEXT DAY at two PM, but if I had not written it on my hand in ink, I would not have remembered to go!

A bad memory is not a fun thing. I am constantly struggling to remember peoples names and trying to drive somewhere in the city is damn near impossible because I cannot remember which way to go, but until scientists discover a way to give people a memory upgrade like they do for computers, I am stuck with my bad memory.

This is where blogs come into play. With my eldest, I was rarely on the computer and had very little idea what the internet was for and had certainly never heard of a blog before. I had a memory book for him, and I filled it in religiously. Now when I want to know when he got his first tooth or walked for the first time, all I have to do is flip through that book.

We never got a memory book for our middle boy, so most of that stuff is forgotten. I remember that he walked very shortly before his first birthday, 10.5 or 11 months old, but not the exact age, like I do with my oldest. With our youngest, I had discovered blogs by then, so when I want to remember what he was up to on “this” day, or “that”, I just go to my archives.

As an example, today my baby lost his very first baby tooth, and I will always know when and how, because I wrote a post about it on my blog Paint!

For me, my blogs are a wondrous thing in terms of helping me to remember the important happenings in my life, and there is nothing more fun that to decided to go back two or three years to that days date and see what we were up to. In 2006 on may 28th I wrote a post about how Parker’s grade one teacher had called me from the school to tell me that Parker would be passing Grade one. Little stuff like that, it’s exciting to see.

The only BAD part, and the reason I am not linking that post, is three years ago when I started blogging, the idea of spell check or even re-reading a post to catch errors was a foreign concept for me. The post is FULL of typos and errors and even half formed html code! Nasty, but. . . It’s where I was back then, and due to a recent poll I took, the old posts will stay like that, errors and all! (And in their own way, those misspelled, messy posts are helping me to remember how far I have come in my blogging!)