I'm going to start a public blog!

Why did you jump on the blog bandwagon?
Well, I've had a mostly friends-only LiveJournal for the past 10 years or so, but I haven't managed to convince many people to join that community.  I figure if I get a public "blog" I'll finally be able to convince my friends, family, Facebook friends, and neighbors to read about my life more often.  Maybe I can convince them to RSS feed it.

I figure this can be the place where I can talk about anything I want to related to my life - marriage, kids, parenting, chores, church, reminiscing, the weather, whatever I feel like publicly sharing with the rest of the universe.  I'm probably too open a person, but I figure if people want to read this maybe someone will benefit from my thoughts or experiences.  At the very least I, myself, will have this record of my life for my posterity if they want it.

I'm also feeling kind of lame that I have no good pictures to use for this blog, since I tend to be the one *taking* the pictures.  I guess I'll use an old wedding photo (4 years ago? really?!) because then I won't have to feel obligated to have an even remotely up-to-date profile picture.  Oh, well, maybe some day I'll get around to doing cool format and picture things with this blog, but maybe I won't.  I didn't update my LiveJournal's format AT ALL between 2004 and 2010.

Why the name?
I picked out "Teenage Mormon Bride" because it sounds sort of catchy and I AM Mormon and I DID get married a month after I turned 19.  Also, it sounds a bit like "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle."  Boo freaking yeah.