Day 916 of 1000
I started this blog about ten years ago. It was the summer before Kelly’s fith and Christian’s third grade years of school. The purpose of the blog has been to document the kids path through homeschool. Since Christian never made it to high school, we decided to keep on writing through college. Well, that time is almost here. Kelly and Christian are both scheduled to earn their Bachelors degrees on May 10, 2014. We have talked about this quite a lot. After that point, we believe what they do, whether it be graduate school or a job, is “getting on with life.”
The upshot is that the purpose of this blog will have been fulfilled when we get to the end of our 1000 day count, now only 84 days in the future. I have enjoyed this blog a lot, but have pretty much run out of things to say about the topics for which we get most of our hits, namely how did we did our homeschooling. I enjoy blogging too much to give it up entirely so I am thinking of starting a new blog if and when I give up this. I plan to just leave the blog here for posterity and a pointer to my new blog (if I get one). I hope to download the whole thing and print it out as a hardcover book for each of the kids, the grandparents, and us.
Any thoughts on this topic are very much welcome.
Betty Blonde #78 – 11/03/2008
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Eric
Go ahead and start a new blog … You could go either politics (i.e. Matt Walsh) or tech. Personally, I think you would do great at monetizing a niche vision systems engineering blog.
But, I think you could keep this blog moving forward if you could recruit the those ChapmanKids to contribute to their own namesake blog w.r.t. college and grad school experiences. So, instead of you helping parents with homeschooling issues, the ChapmanKids could help other homeschool/Christian kids with college issues. That would be super helpful, and they wouldn’t even have to blog full time! I’m thinking about all those curricular and social dilemmas that kids face in college. What a help it would be to others to know they are not alone!
It is a good idea and I have asked and asked and asked. They are really not interested. Maybe they will take it up again when they have started their own home school.
I am interested!!!!!!!!!!!
Kendra
Keep it available! I’ve enjoyed reading it so far and anticipate doing more as my children get into their high school years. Plus I just emailed your web address to another homeschool mom doing the CLEP program like yourself.
Wow Kendra. Thanks for this! We absolutely plan to keep it available and we are working on getting another blogger (my daughter Kelly) to take on some of the writing load. She plans to homeschool herself within the next few years.
I really appreciate the encouragement and have every intention of leaving the blog up.