Hugh & Will

There are two folks who inspired me to start my own blog. The first is Hugh Hewitt, also known as "The BlogFather". He's the man who launched a thousand blogs. I haven't yet read his book Blog, but I've read enough reviews that I feel like I have. I listen to him almost every day on the radio. He's been working on me for months. I've become a blogreader.

Two days ago, I read about Will. He had lived and died by the time I met him. He spent his entire life in a NICU [Neonatal Intensive Care Unit] in Iowa and his life, journey, and death was lovingly blogged by his parents. My husband, David and I have spent our share of time in the NICU. In August 2003, our twin daughters, Annie and Mary Jo arrived at 26 weeks gestation, weighing a whopping 2lbs 3 ounces and 1 pound 15 ounces, respectively, and spent their first 12 weeks in NICUs at Forsyth Hospital and Brenner Children's hospital. They survive today as the miracle girls that they are because of God's grace, the Sacrament of Baptism and all the prayers they received from folks around the world. At that time, I hadn't heard of a "blog". But I lovingly pleaded for prayers from the prayer warriors in email journals that went out regularly. I was driving home telling David about this wondrous little blog for Will Kenyon. He told me that I had sort of done it for the girls via the email. Well, this is 2005, and now is the time for all good moms to blog to the aid of their families.

UPDATE: Cleaned up the links.