So I actually love to write.  It’s cathartic for me, and helps me “unpack” things in my life as I read and revise and edit and write and write and write….but somehow I haven’t jumped on the blog train yet.  This is my first blog ever…ever.  I have a degree in English that has been largely unused and dormant for the past 18 years.  I hope that will change someday, but in the meantime I feel the need to write.

The decision to start blogging sprang out of two things – one, I thought this might be a good way to update our friends and family from afar with a Christmas update blog instead of a long bragging letter.  And secondly, we are walking into a brand spanking new season of life, a giant change for me, and I have a lot of unexpected emotions bubbling to the surface about it.  I was thinking some of what I’m walking through might be helpful to others so blogging about it may make sense.  More about all of that later.

Maybe these posts will be more just for me, I really don’t know.  But for now, here it is.  The Nachtigal Family Blog. And just for kicks, a  recent family photo of the whole family. (photo cred: our good friend Liz Schanke)