Aside from the lesser reasons (it was seeming like a lot of steps to save smaller picture files to upload, likely I was just getting lazy, and school age stories aren't as funny as toddler stories), I also wanted to provide more emotional protection for my kids once they started school.
Toddler stories are funny and most people enjoy them. Readers got a good chuckle, I got a creative outlet along with a way to preserve stories that I would likely forget later, and my kids were never in any harm of being embarrassed nor picked on because of them.
But, once they started school, I didn't want stories floating around about their antics, shenanigans, and vocabulary mishaps. I didn't want to knowingly put something out there that could make it back to a classmate and turn into a reason to ridicule one of my kids.
Will this decision mean my kids will never ever get picked on? Absolutely not. But one of my many roles as a parent is to protect my children and create a safe haven for them in life. And I no longer felt that having a blog allowed me to also maintain that safe haven.
So, from our family to yours, thank you for hanging out with us during the tired baby years, the funny toddler years, and into the school years.
