I love recording and documenting my family’s life. Maybe in part the desire to do so comes from my love of history and the past and family traditions and ancestors from long ago.
What I wouldn’t give to be able to read memoirs of all my great great grandparents and so forth!
This is a way (hopefully…who knows what will happen to everything online one day?) my descendants can learn how we lived.
The children of my children and their children can catch a glimpse into the lives of the two who lived and loved and started their branch on the family tree.
What we ate, what we wore, how we FELT and our day-to-day happenings. Our legendary love.
BUT.
I worry. I worry a lot sometimes about what I’m doing.
For the most part I am comfortable posting pictures of my precious daughter online because I never give out our last name or exactly where we live. (DUH!)
I want to keep her as protected as possible. Yet why, you might ask, am I putting up pictures at all?
That’s a good question. At first I didn’t even think about it. It was natural.
This blog is mainly a place to document Lillian’s life. I want family and friends to easily and freely keep up with her day to day.
My blog is small enough that I pretty much have a handle on my visitors.
But I sometimes get a pit in my stomach. What if I’m making a mistake?
I want and NEED to be the best mother to Lillian. I don’t EVER want to risk her safety in ANY way.
For the most part I am at peace with my decision. For now.
If that ever changes I won’t hesitate to do something about it.
She’s everything to us.
Which is also precisely the problem. Like I said before, I love blogging. I love having a creative outlet that keeps me accountable. Keeps me doing something.
But how can I have a blog and not write about or post pictures of the most important thing to us?
It wouldn’t be real. It wouldn’t be us.
So for while I have a blog, Lillian will be the star of it.
I am toying with the idea of running a watermark (copyright Our Havenhill) over all of my pictures from here on out.
Not sure how I feel about that.
For one, I want family to be able to download and save any pics they want from the blog. I don’t want them to have a ‘blemish’ on their photos!
Also, there ARE ways people can get around watermarks if they’re willing to work pretty hard at it.
WHAT DO YOU ALL THINK?
Should I watermark? Will it do any good?
It might make me feel like I’m making more of an effort to protect Lillian.
