Creating a blog is easy.
Maintaining a blog with two jobs, three kids, holidays, family, and, well, The Walking Dead is on - it get hard. So here it is that 2013 is already a week old and the blog has nothing to show for it since before Halloween. So let's do this - here are some pictures of Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas before we start the New Year.
Grant recycled his brother's monkey costume for Halloween. Once he got the hang of ringing doorbells and getting lollipops he was unstoppable.
TJ completed his Ironman costume and in a moment of utter confidence decided to walk the three miles from out house to his old pre-school to attend their Trick-or-Treat - in the dark. He got as far as the end of road before we collected him and returned him, dejected, to the house.
TJ is always a help in the kitchen and putting the finishing touches on the apple pie for Thanksgiving - our first "official" meal in the dining room since it was remodeled with chair rails and wainscoting.
After almost 18 months apart, Bobby and his mom were able to reunite. His illness is currently under control allowing he and his mom to enjoy each others company - the highlight of 2012.
TJ and his old buddy (can you say that of a 5 five old?) Nathan got together at church on Christmas Eve to celebrate the Nativity. TJ decided to be a king while Nathan was a sublime bovine.
The girls tried on halos. It didn't help.
Grant - always the charmer, donned cow ears and mooed throughout the service.
And now we are up to speed.
The New Year is going to be challenging for us. 2013 ushered in a new job for me and they "in-sourced" my job from a contractor to a government employee. While the long term benefits of working for the government are good, the immediate issue is a loss in pay in the new position. As of this writing it is still being worked on - but the loss of income is never good. Lisa is also going through her own career woes - and her issues are yet to be resolved. All this means a lean year for the family but we will make it work.
2013 will also provide challenges of raising children; a teenager in particular who occasionally makes good decisions and keeps them to herself but then broadcasts bad decisions on Twitter and other social media. As a parent I can't stand social media; its intrusive, untrustworthy, and it blurs the line of acceptable behavior. I think there is a generation of kids out there who are going to be impacted be there posts months or years after they post them to cyber space. I don't know and cannot imagine what the long term impacts are of living your life on line as they do but it worries me.
While Sam and her parents struggle through her adolescence in real time on social media I can't help but wonder what Sam's fifteen year old will have to deal with technologically.
Same for this blog. While the contributions have been few, it is a chronicle of our family. Births, triumphs, trials, vacations, they are all are remembered here. Our hope is that is exists long into the kids adulthood for them to look back on and enjoy. However, that's a lot of information floating out there for a long time and while its benign - do we really want it out there?
Who's reading this anyway?
Maintaining a blog with two jobs, three kids, holidays, family, and, well, The Walking Dead is on - it get hard. So here it is that 2013 is already a week old and the blog has nothing to show for it since before Halloween. So let's do this - here are some pictures of Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas before we start the New Year.
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| Making the Apple Pie |
TJ is always a help in the kitchen and putting the finishing touches on the apple pie for Thanksgiving - our first "official" meal in the dining room since it was remodeled with chair rails and wainscoting.
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| Bob and Betty Reunited |
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| TJ and Nathan -Christmas Eve Service |
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| Sam and Kira - Angels |
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| Grant - Moo |
After almost 18 months apart, Bobby and his mom were able to reunite. His illness is currently under control allowing he and his mom to enjoy each others company - the highlight of 2012.
TJ and his old buddy (can you say that of a 5 five old?) Nathan got together at church on Christmas Eve to celebrate the Nativity. TJ decided to be a king while Nathan was a sublime bovine.
The girls tried on halos. It didn't help.
Grant - always the charmer, donned cow ears and mooed throughout the service.
And now we are up to speed.
The New Year is going to be challenging for us. 2013 ushered in a new job for me and they "in-sourced" my job from a contractor to a government employee. While the long term benefits of working for the government are good, the immediate issue is a loss in pay in the new position. As of this writing it is still being worked on - but the loss of income is never good. Lisa is also going through her own career woes - and her issues are yet to be resolved. All this means a lean year for the family but we will make it work.
2013 will also provide challenges of raising children; a teenager in particular who occasionally makes good decisions and keeps them to herself but then broadcasts bad decisions on Twitter and other social media. As a parent I can't stand social media; its intrusive, untrustworthy, and it blurs the line of acceptable behavior. I think there is a generation of kids out there who are going to be impacted be there posts months or years after they post them to cyber space. I don't know and cannot imagine what the long term impacts are of living your life on line as they do but it worries me.
While Sam and her parents struggle through her adolescence in real time on social media I can't help but wonder what Sam's fifteen year old will have to deal with technologically.
Same for this blog. While the contributions have been few, it is a chronicle of our family. Births, triumphs, trials, vacations, they are all are remembered here. Our hope is that is exists long into the kids adulthood for them to look back on and enjoy. However, that's a lot of information floating out there for a long time and while its benign - do we really want it out there?
Who's reading this anyway?
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