Tauns’ Blog

My sweet Katybug has been begging us lately to start her own blog.  I thought it was so sweet that she requested to be able to share her life like her mom and dad via blogging.  That is how she put it too.  “Mom, I want to start blogging like you and dad”.  Her excitement to write a blog and share her life is fun to experience!  I have the best little girl EVER!!!!

At first when she requested a blog I was a bit nervous.  I love to blog and Ben does as well.  Blogging per se isn’t the issue.  I was worried that each time she would want to blog I would end up spending hours helping her decide on what to blog about (as if I don’t have a hard enough time with that for my blog as it is) and then end up typing it up for her.  I also worried about the whole “world reading a 6 year olds writing” stuff.

After Ben and I had discussed it some I asked Katy a question.  This is how it went:

“Katy, what do you want to blog about?” I querried.

“Oh, I don’t know.  Stuff, my life and school and just stuff.” came her too early to be tween yet still tween voice reply.

“Okay.  I will talk to your dad and we will see.”

After Ben and I talked about it again, we decided it would be a GOOD thing for her.  Ben set up an account for her that night.  Even though we may have to help with the ideas, we decided they can be simple.  I mean her life is overall fairly simple; although, she might not view it that way at times.  We also decided she had to be the one to type what she wanted to write.  We can give suggestions on WHAT to write about but we will not write it for her.  We are hoping this can be a learning opportunity for her.  Help with computer, typing, writing and reading skills.

Today she wrote her first blog.  I was so proud of how she honestly did it all on her own (well the writing that is)!!!  I guess it just goes to show that she really is old enough and she really does want to share her life.  Ben only had to help with adding the pictures.

She        REALLY        likes     to         type     with     a     lot      of        random       spaces          between           her      words.         if    you     sEe    caps    it     is    an      accident     and     they     are         randomly           placed.    

Don’t be expecting perfection.  We will work on the spacing issue, it will take some time.  I think that possibly a bigger print may help with her need for so much space between each word.  We are also working on the capital letter at the beginning of the sentence and for proper nouns.   This is something they are working on at school as well, so it will be good skill practice for her.   Her spelling is off.  Sight words are for reading only, not for writing…I have been informed   Words and correct spelling is also on the list of “to work on”.  The whole grammar thing – well my grammar sucks and hopefully Ben will be able to help her with that one cause y’all know mine sucks

I LOVE IT!!!!  Her blog is sweet.  It is the best.  I think I just found my new favorite blog to read!!!  (Oh and don’t worry, I will be teaching her the art of more than just a period…before long she will be an exclamation freak like her mom…oh wait, what was that about teaching proper english skills?!?!?)

Oh and to solve the whole “world” issue, we just made the blog private!   We sent an email out to several friends and family but then we got a notification that many didn’t receive the email.  That in turn lead to a massive “go through email contact list” frenzy.  Some addresses were old, some were contacts we don’t contact anymore, some emails were newer ones and weren’t even listed, you know all the fun things.  I sent and resent the message that Ben had originally sent a couple more times and HOPEFULLY I got everyone in the end.  If you didn’t get the email and you would like to read the best new blog in town, let me know and I will get you the link!