To Blog or Not to Blog?

This has long been my question.

Why not blog, you may ask?
1. Well, many blogs that I come across are highly philosophical or deeply introspective - and mine likely won't be.
2. Many blogs that I come across are passionately poetic or elequently written - and mine likely won't be.
3. Many blogs that I come across are chronicling the lives of people who are saving the world, altering humanity, parenting perfectly, or crafting creative masterpieces, or somehow managing to combine all those things - and mine definitely won't be.
4. If I don't keep up with it, it will be just one more thing I feel guilty about or pressured by.
5. Because it's hard for me to write something that will be read by other people without editing it a million times.
6. It will just be about my real life, with my hubby and my kids and our congregation. My real life that includes days that sometimes end with me never getting my make-up on, or the kitchen a complete disaster and the pile of projects waiting to be done getting bigger and bigger - and who would want to read about that?

So, then, why blog, as that is the path I clearly have chosen?
1. Because, it's a way to chronicle my real life, with my hubby and my kids and our congregation and our friends. My real life that includes Sunday mornings with all kinds of mishaps and usually a disasterous kitchen. My real life with funny quotes from my kids and my own random ponderings that may not be relevent to anything.  Who cares if no one but my mom reads it, it still begs to be written.
2. Because sometimes I just need to write.  We'll see if this proves to be a good medium.
3. Because in reality, 1-3 above are probably overstated.  The blogs I look at are mostly of people I love and I just like knowing what's going on in their lives. So I'd like to give those who love me the same opportunity to be connected to the everyday ordinary-ness of our lives.

So, here goes...to blogging, may it be all this and more!