Dedication

I hated pretty much everything about my "Cocoon" post. I even hate the title "Cocoon." Hate it . Hate it. Hate it. It sounded so much like a goodbye post when it was really an I'm changing post, hence the yuke-inspiring title.

Ugh.

I've been thinking ALOT about what I want to write and how I want to write and what I will use this space for. I've taken down some older posts and, in general, am trying to write more anonymously. I was no longer comfortable with the way things were.

I've also been thinking about why I started this blog three years ago.

Over the past few weeks, I've been working on a photobook with all of Girl's Versions. It starts at the very first version, Version 14.0, and goes to the last, version 42.0. The new versions came out monthly until 36.0, then slowly spaced out as the software programmers felt fewer updates were more prudent.

The book is 51 pages and starts with a dedication:

This book is dedicated to my dear daughter J.  I started a blog in 2006, Where's My Cape? in part to document your development through such an amazing time of humor, discovery, joy, and challenge. Each month, so many changes were occurring, that I thought it was fitting to update each month in the format of a software change upgrade: The Versions were born. I hope you will enjoy these some day and know that they were written out of love (laughing with you, not at you).

Love you always,
Mama

I'm getting two. One day, she'll have her own copy. When she's old enough not to be terribly offended and throw it at me.

Comments

[flutter]

this just made my heart quiver

[qt]

You aren't the only one doing thinking about their blog. I love the versions and I hope J does too, eventually.

[Middento]

Agreed! The loooong lapse on my own blog is making me rethink the process of my own reboot. (Coming soon!)

[Ali]

Glad you're not leaving. I blog about my boy anonymously, and recently locked it down with password protection. Hopefully I won't humiliate him terribly. :) But I've used the stories from the blog as excerpts in an annual iPhoto book, recapping things he did and funny things he said. I fully suspect that he'll be mortified and largely hate these annual Boy in Review books, right up until he has kids of his own. I wonder how much of this is me wanting to document how cool he's been, and how much of it is creating a reference tool for him. My mother died before he was born and I would have given life and limb to have a better idea of what I did and when, and how similar or different he is compared to me.

[Stimey]

I love your versions. And I think she will too. What a great idea to make a book out of them.

[KC]

flutter- xo

qt- you too? Something's in the water. It's good, I think, re-evaluation.

middento- looking forward to seeing your reboot.

ali- awesome. I bet he will love them. One day. Yes, maybe wait until he has kids of his own. Grandkids would totally dig it. I would have loved something like that, which is why I'm hoping the girl will too someday.

stimey- thanks! I hope it turns out okay. I spent so many hours on it. Hence, my neglect of the entire blog world.

[Kyla]

That is PERFECT! I love it. Can you go back in time and give me this idea 3 years ago? LOL.

[Janet]

She will love it. Absolutely.

I am currently working on creating the big book 'o posts from my own (hiding) blog. It is going to chill up on the highest shelf of my closet until my kids have children of their own. I think that is the exact right time to read what I have written. They need that parent's perspective to truly appreciate my words, I think.

[alejna]

So is this the part where you start chewing your way out of the cocoon? I hope that gunky stuff it's made out of doesn't get stuck in your teeth.

I love it that you've made the version updates into a book.