Who is this Blog for?

It's official...V and I are starting a blog! Kyle gave me the idea and two books for Christmas with tips for beginning bloggers. It's just what I needed to start some researching (procrastinating) and get my blog created.

I'm looking forward to having a way to document Violet's many curiosities and her overall personality of curiousness (I'm wondering how many forms of the word curious I can fit in this first post). 

I'm looking forward to writing and having a place for my "voice."  My dad was a newspaper reporter/editor and had a knack for writing. Even his little notes left on the kitchen table had a sense of who he was as a person. From his signature scrawling penmanship to absurd rhymes, I could almost here his voice reading the words when I saw the "hi Hol" written at the top. No one dared go up against him at a game of Scrabble and his editing skills on my high school and college English papers saved me many a time.  He had a love-hate relationship with Mac desktops as there was always some problem or another at the paper. He never owned a smart phone or had a Facebook account. He was a simple guy who I think would have come around to the idea of a "blog" if it allowed him to read about his granddaughter and how she curiously (#3) explores her environment everyday.

I'm looking forward to sharing this with Auntie Kellie and Uncle Ben who don't get to see Violet as often as they would like living in Virginia. They opened Violet's world to many of the curiousest (#4???) things she's seen/done in her 17 months when we visited at New Years (stairs, dogs and cats, not precooked breakfast sausage, all things ZOO, crab cakes, lumberjack outfits, ring-around-the-rosie, dominoes, stools, traffic, slides, airport baggage claim, sushi...) Violet now prefers to skype with their dog and cat instead of her actual Auntie and Uncle!  Also, it needs to be mentioned that Kellie inherited my Dad's writing expertise. From pages and pages long 1st grade stories to many, many Masters degree papers, she has a true gift. Hope I can live up to these two Becker writers!

Grandma Diane and Grandpa Rick & Krista see Miss V on the regular and love and spoil her to death. This blog will get them through on the days they miss her. Finally, Mr. KG is work, work working to allow me to stay at home more with our curious girl. He doesn't get to go on all of Mom and V's adventures so this will be a way for him to not miss out.

We love you all!!!

Hollie (mom of Curious Miss V.)