Better Half

To complete the introductions, meet Nancilynn. She arranged for me to receive private sushi lessons for a birthday a few years ago. We had a blast. This is exactly the type of thing that Nancilynn is always doing. She is an extremely creative and caring person. I'm enjoying watching these traits bear fruit in her initial homeschooling efforts. I'm tremendously fortunate to have found such a wife.

Alien

Speaking of the little alien, here he is. He is pictured here atop the 'climbing thing'. My wife and her brother played with this thing in their home when they were children. It has been passed around the family. For my older son's 4th birthday party, we assembled it in our great room. It is now in the garage. Jonathan is quite different from his brother. Jesse requires a lot of attention. Jonny will play alone in his room for hours. As he moves his trains around the table, he can be heard mumbling the lines from a Thomas story that he is apparently enacting. Both of our boys are an absolute delight. By the way, Jesse is beginning to demonstrate an active interest in my boardgames. I'm afraid he'll be as hooked as I am before long.

Little Astronaut

I figure that I should introduce the family. I'll begin with my oldest son, Jesse. At four years of age, he must be one of the youngest astronauts ever to have visited the moon. His younger brother, Jonathan, is more like an alien. Perhaps I'll be able to introduce him tomorrow.

Genesis

So, I stumbled onto a blogger's site and decided to give it a shot myself. It occurred to me that blogging suggests hubris. Why would the mundane details of my personal life need to be made available to a global audience? On the other hand, the likelihood of anyone else reading this is roughly equivalent to the likelihood of anyone else reading my personal diary. Actually, the odds are slightly better, as I don't own a diary. Anyway, I feel the need to confess, up front, my automatic suspicion of anyone with a blog. Perhaps my opinion of blogging will change as I proceed with this project. Likely, however, I'll continue to regard what I'm doing as simply an exercise in technologically advanced narcissism.