Blogging as a family or Whose blog is this anyway?

When we started this project I envisioned a lovely family project that netted us some free tickets to OOTB. But it seems that it is slightly more complicated than that....

First was the realisation that we needed to put more thought into how we talked about and responded to the work so we move beyond loving everything and now I find myself wondering how do we actually do blogging as a family? Does it mean that we all have to think the same thing or present that we do? Does that mean that we go with one or both of the kids opinions? Are they the key audience or as parents do we have some stake in this as well? Do I respond to the work as someone who works in the arts industry?

For all families diversity and difference of opinion is a reality and we are no exception to this.

We look different to each other. Two of us were born here and two of us in Samoa. Two of us have English as their second language. Between the four of us we sport 3 different last names. We negotiate diversity and difference of opinion on a daily basis as we navigate our lives as a family who is living cross culturally. This is one of the things that makes our family who we are.

So it is in this spirit that we will blog, acknowledging both our differences and similarities of opinion and appreciating that it is these nuances that make our process and product both richer and deeper.