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.
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It is a pretty tough balancing act–but I think you pull it off well. I enjoy it so much because Clare and Zoe are seemingly very similar.
Comment by edlamaze — August 23, 2009 #
Happy Blogiversary!
Mine just turned 4. The day she can actually read, I may have to stop.
At least that’s what I keep telling myself.
Comment by creative type dad — August 25, 2009 #
Glad you are still around. You will find your place again and I will be around to see what it is. Congrats on making it 4 years.
Comment by SeattleDad — August 25, 2009 #
I too wrestle with the awareness that I am in effect invading my children’s privacy and that this becomes less and less acceptable as they get older. I read once that most parent blogs stop when the child is around five years old. Not sure if that’s true, but I’ve contemplated stopping when my son starts school, or just making more posts private.
Anyway, as already said, you strike a good balance and although I too have been too busy for blogs recently, I still enjoy your posts. Hope you stick around.
Comment by Steve — September 4, 2009 #