Today I received an email from my blog hosting service notifying me that I had some things in the inner sanctum of the blog software and content that looked like malware so I spent fifteen minutes and cleaned it all up. While I was at it, it dawned on my that I should check to see exactly long I have been blogging. My first blog post was a couple of service providers ago on April 6, 2004 in Albany, Oregon. Kelly was 10 years old and Christian was eight. They were just finishing up their fourth and second grade years of government school. We were toward the end of the process of deciding we should homeschool, not so much because we knew much about that or thought it was a great thing (we do now), but because the local government school in Albany was so bad. That consumed a lot of our time and thought at the time.
Twelve years later, the kids are ensconced in graduate school in Washington and Arizona, Lorena and I live in Texas and our worries are of the same magnitude, but of different challenges. I have struggled to figure out what to write here since the kids graduated from North Carolina State U. I still struggle, but it helps me to write some of this stuff out on the blog. I appreciate everyone who has read, commented and stayed in contact over the years. I hope I can keep it alive another dozen or so.