A brief introduction, an explanation of sorts.

At the time of this post, I am 30 years old. My mother (helen) was 25 when she had me, my father (donald) was 28, though only for a few days, both had birthdays within 3 days of mine. Though I do not have any kids of my own, nor a wife or even a girlfriend at this time, over the last year many of my friends have had their first child, or are expecting one in the coming months. The process is, to say the least, well documented between "mommy blogs," twitter, facebook, flickr, and other sites that allow you to begin your child's personal overexposure before they've even emerged.  That being said, it is pretty interesting to experience numerous births on such an intimate a level with so little effort.

At some point while reading my friend Lauren's mommy blog (www.walkerbean.wordpress.com) I recalled that I had several baby journals my mom had completed while pregnant with me. Somehow I ended up with these journals, and have been carting them around with a few other childhood items in a big grey tupperware container for the past 6 years. I've been thinking about digitizing some of the home movies that are included in that big bin, and thought, as long as I am doing that, why not digitize my mom's thoughts and experiences. I don't know if anyone beside myself and the 2 people who made me have ever read these things, and even if so, it would have been a very long time ago. So thats what I am doing.

As it turns out, most of the stuff is from after I was born, but there is a calender (the pregnant woman's journal) that I'll use to construct a timeline of sorts, and then I'll start entering the journals. At some point I'll add some photos (spoiler alert, not an overly cute baby) and...well we'll just see how this goes.

The blog name, The Hedley Diaries, comes from one of my dad's proposed names for me. If you know my dad, you know that makes sense, even though you, like i, have no idea where he came up with that.