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Introducing…

Sorry, today’s “Wordless” Wednesday is not so Wordless. I guess that’s better than last week when I didn’t post one at all! haha There was something I have been stressing on my blog for, well, almost a year now since that’s about when I started my blog. I had decided to use nicknames for our kids to protect privacy. It’s a question that’s come up with other bloggers, and I’ve seen the discussion go both ways. For me, I was torn but decided to go with nicknames just to be safe. Then I ran into a problem as our youngest got older because his actual nickname we were using is what I was using in my blog for our oldest. Every time I post about our kids I feel like I have to force myself to use nicknames because it’s just not natural for me. When I write I just let it flow, so it was stifling me to remember the nicknames. Then I often felt like I had to explain who I was talking about anyway. My use of nicknames was then further complicated by naturally occurring incidences: I would accidentally say one of their names in a video (and video editing is NOT my favorite thing to do), I had one of their names on a sign in a picture, and then I did a review for a personalized product. Well, I surely wanted to use his real name on his cute backpack! So I have decided it is MORE stressful for me to use the nicknames than it is for me to worry about using their real names. So here it goes! Introducing… my kids!!