Four More Years
August 23, 2009 at 9:56 am | Posted in Anniversaries, Blogging | 4 Comments
Olympiads. Presidential terms. High school. College. A lot of life comes at us in four year increments.
Today, this blog celebrates its fourth anniversary. I’m not sure I thought it would last this long. And to be honest, I’m not sure it should have. But here we are.
Last year—on this blog’s third blogiversary—I wrote a pretty nice post about what this blog has meant to me and why I continue to write. The sentiment still holds. I’ve made friends through this blog despite having only met a couple of you in person. Even though comments have trailed off and I’m less frequently reading other great dad and mom blogs, I’d miss you folks if I stopped writing here or reading your posts.
For a couple of reasons though, this blog is struggling. In the past year, I’ve written that Clare is getting to an age at which she deserves some privacy, where I shouldn’t be blogging about every funny or awkward thing she does. That sentiment still holds too. Clare is almost eight; when I began this blog, she was only three. It’s a completely different world (as some of you with three year-olds will find out). So the problem, I suppose, is that the blog of a father of a three year-old must be different than the blog of a father of an almost eight year-old. I have to figure out what that “different” is.
Also in the past year, I’ve mentioned a couple of times that I’ve been spending more time working. My schedule is flexible and some work is doable from home, but it still takes time. If things keep going well, it’ll take a little more time. I think, maybe, when someone is in a creative job like I am, trying to be creative on a personal blog feels like more work. But I have to find the fun in it again.
Somehow, I’ll try to find this website’s place in the blogosphere again. Still a dad blog. A few photographs. A few stories. Somehow we’ll find our way—kind of like we do as parents.
Will the blog last four more years? I don’t know. Maybe not. But maybe it’ll last forty. Wherever we go, thanks for coming by and being a part of Clare’s Dad.
Rocky Mountain High (Summer Photos Day…where were we?)
August 13, 2009 at 12:50 am | Posted in Summer, Summer Photos, Vacations | 2 Comments
Wow, I’ve really blown it with the photo-a-day plan this summer. Unlike last year’s two weeks, Clare spent four weeks in day camp (with one overnight) this year—which means that we didn’t do as much together. Also unlike last year, I spent more time working. The kids’ theatre I’m at spent four weeks rehearsing for Suessical (starring thirty-five 8 to 14 year olds), and the past three weeks with kids creating an original musical with our staff and four guest artists from Broadway. (We met cast members from The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, Mary Poppins and Wicked.)
One great thing we did do together was visit Denver. Clare’s Mom has been there for business before and that’s what took her there again; Clare and I just tagged along for our first visit. It was fun (even if Clare’s favorite part was the hotel pool) and we’ll probably go back someday. I posted more about the trip over at UpTake.
I’ll get more summer photos up here (maybe even some from July), but I probably won’t fill in every day of the summer. I guess I didn’t realize that last summer may have been the last that Clare and I would spend so much time together. In a couple of weeks, she’ll be starting third grade. She also says that, when she turns eight, she’ll be a ‘tween. I guess there’s no pretening she’s still a little kid, but she’ll always be Daddy’s little girl.
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