what's the use?

hello, 21st century! i'm just eight years late ... i'm setting up this blog mainly to be able to post video clips. we've gotten some great (short) footage of the kids recently and then have no good way to share it with family and friends who aren't nearby, so hopefully this will help solve that problem. i will say that i've been fascinated with the idea of a blog ever since heard the term way back in, like, april. (i even pronounced it "bee-log", thinking the "b" stood for something. the person i was talking to gave me the funniest look and i had no idea why.) i can't imagine anyone being terribly interested in the mundane going-ons of our life, and i'm also notorious for getting excited about something new and then losing steam quickly ... so we'll see how often i wind up posting. but evidently these things are all the rage -- it took me about a half hour just to find a blogname appropriate for us that wasn't already in use. ("themanns"? gone. "mannfamily"? taken.) i elicited the help of my supposedly more creative sister leslie, until she suggested "deMANNding", and then i figured i was better off on my own. here's to my foray into bee-log world.