[Ldsoss] Blog + Family History + Books

[Dan Hanks]

Hi folks,

The idea struck me today that it would be nice to be able to sit down
on a weekly basis and write up a short history of what happened in our
family, easliy including photos and such (essentially a blog post),
and then be able to share that with family and friends in a secure
manner (that's easy for them to access) and then at the end of the
year to bundle up all the year's entries into a
(acid-free/archival-quality) hardbound book to give each of the kids
and to preserve for posterity.

I'm certain there are tools that can get me pieces of this whole
picture (Blogger + Picasa + Lulu/Blurb, for example). Is there
anything out there that can get me the whole thing end-to-end?

My time is excruciatingly limited but I feel keenly the need to
document our little family's history, so anything that can get me to
the above in the least amount of time each week is what I'm looking
for.

Thanks for any pointers,

-- Dan