Our First Post!

Hi Everyone! I hope you like the name and look of the blog; please send me suggestions for changes. I am the administrator of the blog, but I've sent invitations to you so all of you can be contributors, so we'll see how this works. Surely we will have to work out some bugs but I think this will be fun once we get it up and going!

I think it would be great to post some recipes, but we shouldn't limit it to just recipes. For example, I could talk about how my daughter likes to get up for the day before 5am. Why? I have no idea, but maybe some of you have ideas on how to change this habit! I can tell you that I've started to develop a Zen-like attitude toward the early mornings. Reese and I have time to bond before the household wakes up. She cruises around the playroom while I knit and listen to NPR, and every now and then she crawls onto my lap for a cuddle. So, I'm tired but it's a sweet time, and I know that someday she'll be 16 and want to sleep in until lunchtime.

Back to the blog. Hopefully the directions for posting seem clear once you create a Google account (if you don't already have one) and log in to the Blogger website. You add a title for your post, text for your post, and labels if you have one. Labels are nice because they organize the posts once we have a lot of them. For example, if you post a recipe for a gourmet dinner, label it Gourmet and then anyone who is looking for a gourmet dinner recipe can just click on that label (I think they should show up on the sidebar) and all of the posts with this label will appear.

Here are some suggestions for labels: Gourmet meals, Kid-friendly meals, Fast & easy meals, Rants, Kid tips, etc. Use your imagination! Also, anyone can leave comments under each post, so that's a good way to get a conversation going. If you want to receive e-mails when someone comments or posts you need to "Subscribe" -- see the link on the sidebar.

Finally, if other Highland Mommies find this blog and want to be a contributor please let me know.

OK, let's get this thing going ...
Sara