Drivel, and a little note about Thirteen
Picked up a copy of the January issue of Cooking Light and opened up to what?! An article about knitting!! Did the editors hear about Chick Create Night? Our January 20 get together just happens to be Knit Night. Those people at Cooking Light must have gotten wind of our Chick Create Night because the article even lists the 'Coming Up Future Passions' they plan to pursue. Among them, Garden Planning (March Chick Create) and Photography (June Chick Create.)
Today is our thirteenth wedding anniversary. Doesn't seem like a very long time, really. But you know, so much is different now than 13 years ago. In 1992 most computer modems were external 26kb and mobile phones were as big as a kitchen appliance and they all sounded staticy. Digital cameras taking pictures at less than 1 MP cost thousands of dollars. Although CD's have been around for 20 years (or so) we actually did not get our first CD player until 1998!
In the last thirteen years two boys came into our world. We have been fortunate to have good jobs. We have lost our mothers. We have grown into parents, (though parenting is an evolutionary process, never completed.) There have been challenging times (most pronounced was the year following the arrival of child number two - that is a tough year, friends, and I just want to say, persevere!!) There have been wonderfully enriching times. Now we keep going forward. Always moving forward.
I was just reading a little bit in the paper and on a few online sites.
Blogs are everywhere now. I read that in 2004 the number of new blogs created skyrocketed. All kinds of us humans are writing and reading blogs, and we are all different yet wonderfully alike. I can read the blog of a person half my age or twice my age, in another country and another culture, and regardless of the gender, I find similarities, or if I don't find much I relate to, there is some increase in the level of understanding.
Now writing blog is a habit. And a great excuse to log on and clickety click on Daisy the Mac. Mack the Knife. Macaroni. Habitual reading of others blogs is often inspirational, educational, or like hanging with a soap opera, or reality show, or even just finding out how someone you virtually know and care about is doing.
Today is our thirteenth wedding anniversary. Doesn't seem like a very long time, really. But you know, so much is different now than 13 years ago. In 1992 most computer modems were external 26kb and mobile phones were as big as a kitchen appliance and they all sounded staticy. Digital cameras taking pictures at less than 1 MP cost thousands of dollars. Although CD's have been around for 20 years (or so) we actually did not get our first CD player until 1998!
In the last thirteen years two boys came into our world. We have been fortunate to have good jobs. We have lost our mothers. We have grown into parents, (though parenting is an evolutionary process, never completed.) There have been challenging times (most pronounced was the year following the arrival of child number two - that is a tough year, friends, and I just want to say, persevere!!) There have been wonderfully enriching times. Now we keep going forward. Always moving forward.
I was just reading a little bit in the paper and on a few online sites.
Blogs are everywhere now. I read that in 2004 the number of new blogs created skyrocketed. All kinds of us humans are writing and reading blogs, and we are all different yet wonderfully alike. I can read the blog of a person half my age or twice my age, in another country and another culture, and regardless of the gender, I find similarities, or if I don't find much I relate to, there is some increase in the level of understanding.
Now writing blog is a habit. And a great excuse to log on and clickety click on Daisy the Mac. Mack the Knife. Macaroni. Habitual reading of others blogs is often inspirational, educational, or like hanging with a soap opera, or reality show, or even just finding out how someone you virtually know and care about is doing.
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