I've Been Discovered

I've been sort of blogged-up, frozen, unable to post anything for a couple of days.

One thing that stopped me was when someone reminded me that everything you blog is forever.

Forever?

Whoa.

The other thing that has me thinking about this blog is that over the weekend, my youngest daughter came to me with a huge grin and stared.

"What's up?" I asked.

"I just found something."

"And what's that?"

"I just read something."

"What did you read?"

"A blog."

"A blog, eh?"

"And not just anyone's blog. I read your blog!"

Now I don't run everything past the kids for their approval, but when I write about them, I try to make sure it's a sweet story or something that won't humiliate them. I tell people that I include stories that I'd consider using if I were publishing a book.

But I couldn't help but mentally review the last few posts to see if I could recall any that would have made her uncomfortable. She continued to just stand there, the grin stretched out. I'm not sure what she was thinking. Was she proud that she could Google her own mother and find her that easily? Was she mortified? Impressed? I'm not sure.

"What are you thinking?"

(Still grinning) "I don't know," she answered.

"Were they appropriate? I mean, in your opinion, now that you've read them, do you think I wrote anything that would embarrass anyone in the family?"

"No."

I swept my hand across my forehead and blew out an exaggerated whew! "Good! Because I don't want to do that."

"I liked the one about 'small is big.' That was funny."

"Did you watch Store Wars?"

"Watch it?" She didn't know to click on the highlighted text for a link.

"Go to my blog, find that post, and click where I tell you to and you can watch a fun video. I think you'll like it."

She left--grinning--and came back later laughing about Cuke Skywalker and Obi Wan Cannoli.

After that, I wrote four posts that I never published.

I can't bring myself to.

It's like I've looked out from the stage and spotted someone unexpected in the audience.

Maybe I have stage fright.