This Blog!

I guess this is the requeist introduction post.

Hi, My name is Alia but I go by either shadowkate or Red Firefox across the interwebnet. I've been blogging since the late 1990s and have been on LJ since 2002. So I have some experience at this sort of thing.

In April of 2008, we discovered that we were pregnant and in August discovered that we were pregnant with a little boy. On December 28th, 10 days shy of his due date, our little 'DM' came into the world after starting labor 24.5 hours prior. He was born sick and was in the Level 2 Nursery for a week, plus spent half that week in a billibox. I started to post about baby things to my LJ blog.

I realized that about half the people that read by LJ blog could care less about all the baby stuff, but I wanted a place to post it. Plus I wanted a place that was 'mine'. I worry about posting somethings on LJ. There are a lot of people who already think poorly of myself or my husband or the baby or any number of things that I might post on there. Isn't it sad when it feels like a Blog is no longer your 'safe space'.

So after much thought I decided to start a blog dedicated to three things:
1) The Baby. A place to post my thoughts on him, his milestones, and just what he has been up to.
2) The Family. All of our current trials and tribulations. Everything we are going through, no matter how it might turn out.
3) Other Touchy things. Things that I dont' want to post in my 'main' blog.

This means that there will be some raw emotion, some hate and anger, and I won't censor myself. Likewise, I might not apologize for it. I censor my other blog because, well, I know alot of those people. This blog is not meant for them. This blog is meant for the Internet as a nameless whole. But there will also be glee and wonder in this blog as well.

People in this blog:
*Myself
*David-Michael (also known as the Little One, Baby, DM or just David)
*My husband, James. We are dealing with some things at the moment, but that is a post in and of itself.
*Sue, John and Linda (not real names). Our good friends. Linda is 14 months old, and 8 months older then David. Sue and John are the only parents of a young baby that we know and we hang out all the time.
Last point. The name of this blog.

My son's name is David-Michael. His initals are DM. It is also an injoke (unintentional I promise) as my husband and I and almost all of our friends play D&D. The person who controls the story is the DM.

Hence he is the littlest DM.