What an awesome way to enter the blogosphere!

A friend of mine and I were talking after BlogHer and about all of the news and hubbub surrounding the mommy-blogger contingent. We talked about the way some of our friends’ mommy blogs had begun, as chronicles first of their pregnancies and then day-to-day development of their children, solely for the purpose of keeping faraway friends and family updated on their lives. A sort of “e-mail to everyone you know” thing, just to keep in touch with loved ones.

“I know some kids who just started doing that,” she said. This friend is technically old enough to by my own mother, so when she said “kids” I thought she meant people my age. “Two kids. They just moved to Washington, D.C. so they’ve started a blog to keep their family up to date on their move and new experiences.”

She sent me the link to “Katie and Jack in DC” and I clicked over, expecting a pretty family blog written by a gushing mommy. Maybe there would be a scrapbook paper background and a family picture with everyone in coordinating outfits.

Well.

Katie and Jack are the bloggers. They are 8 and 6. How awesome is that?

It’s their own little blog and their own words, and I kind of love that more than a mommy-blogger writing about her children. They can speak for themselves and a blog is now a platform for everyone.

They don’t write much – just post pictures and little snippets here and there. Like many blogs, it’s just a “what I did today” thing. But what a wonderful habit for a kid to pick up at such a young age! I thought I was so cutting-edge for having a Geocities site when I was fourteen and I am obviously super cool now, so these kids are going to trump all of us.

Will you go over and say hello to Katie and Jack and encourage them in blogging?

http://katieandjackindc.blogspot.com/