January will be a month of Milestones for our little family. First we have Jacob starting Pre-School tomorrow and registration for Kindergarten. I thought I had more time before I had to think about sending him off to school, but it seems that it’s all happening all at once. Of course his pre-school is only 2 days a week and though registration starts tomorrow he doesn’t start school till the fall. Follow that up with Violet’s first birthday and it’s clearly a big month for our little family. It seems like they are growing up so fast, but then that’s what it means to be a parent. To watch your kids grow and change. Every month has a new milestone, a new first and new challenges.
Finding the words to describe the those moments, the Joy, Excitement, and fear is never easy. It’s the reason I started to blog, I wanted share the moments of Fatherhood. In an attempt to keep posting I expanded to include some of my other interests but at the heart this is a place to talk about fatherhood. In this new year I’ll try to remember that, I’ll try to write more about the the time I spend with my children and my family. Try and not let this become just a place of geeky posts. I will remember that though they might be the harder posts to write they are worth writing. I’m still working out what it’ll mean for my blog to try and focus more on fatherhood, but I’m sure I’ll figure it out and when I do, I’ll share it.
For Christmas Jacob got Crazy Forts, so today the two of use built his first fort. It was fun pulling the pieces out of the box, watching as he counted the purple ball connectors. Then we looked at the examples on the box and he picked the one he wanted to build. He had a little trouble putting the pieces together himself, but I’m sure he’ll get it in time. It was a great Father Son time. I can’t wait till we build our next fort. of course I can already see that to build really cool forts we’ll need to get another set or two.
My first photo for Project 365. It seems funny to me that my first photo would be taken from Melissa’s phone camera, Its the same model as my phone that died which supposed to be the camera I was going to use for most of my Project 365 pictures. I had hopped to capture the New Year snow fall I saw while running an errand this morning, instead all I captured was the desolate streets.
The start of a new year, a time to look forward to the future. To set goals and make resolutions. This year I haven’t set any resolutions, I have three geeky challenges I’ve set myself, there are some other personal challenges that I might share on the blog in the weeks to come but for today I want to focus on the geeky ones.
Find my Blogging Voice:
I have been blogging on and off now for 4 years. During that time I have gone through 3 iterations of my blog. Michael’s Thoughts, Evolving Dad and Geek With Kids. The first two were on the same site, one just evolved into the other, which has now been taken offline. I’m pretty sure I back up the posts but as I write this I have a sneaking suspicion that I forgot to back up the MySQL databases and so I might not have kept the posts. Backed-up or not, in all that time I have yet I’ve yet to find a consistent posting pattern for my posts. I would have spurts of high activity followed by months of nothing. That was one of the reasons I started Geek With Kids, to have a fresh start. Of course it didn’t work. I had a good month of posting before falling back to just weekly picture posts.
When I took up the Challenge of NaBloPoMo three months ago, I didn’t think I would have the stamina to still be going at it, but here I am over 90 days later and I’m still posting. Of course it hasn’t been easy there have been a ton of days where I just didn’t have anything to write, but I found something to say, even if it was just a cheesy video from YouTube. Now I’m still looking for a consistency in my posts but I am posting every day. I’m hoping my other 2 challenges will help with that. By giving me something to write about on even on days when nothing is coming to me. So going into 2010 I hope to have a post every day for the year, in fact as you’ll see below I’m hoping to have more then that.
Tonight we packed up the Christmas Decorations, including our tree. It seems a little strange to be packing up before the new year, but this year it just felt right. So now I sit here, writing this entry in our Christmas fee living room, all that’s left is a few of the new presents that are downstairs toys. We have Violets Fisher Price Singing toy and her Mail box. Jacob’s Motorized Marble Race, that isn’t really a downstairs toy but we were putting it together earlier and the box is still waiting to be taken to it’s home. We’ve also got new toy for Mommy and Daddy, a PlayStation 3. It’s on the PlayStation that I’m writing this post. I figured if I could write a post on a net book on Christmas day, why not use the PS3 today. So I plugged in a keyboard fired up the browser and headed over to my Blog. There have been some hicups, I lost the first draft of my post, It also doesn’t like the wysiwyg editior in wordpress so I’m using just plan text, and will probably tweak it on my desktop. But it’s working I plan on writing up my thoughts the PS3 in the new year, when I get a bit more of a chance to play with it. Over all I’lll really liking it.
It’s been a greate Christmas, Jacob has loved it. He face when he came down stairs christmas morning showed me it was worth all the hard work Melissa and I put in. Our kids are the most important thing in our lives and Christmas is for them and they both had a great time. Watching Violet open her first presants was special, she’s alot older then Jacob was for his first Christmas so it’s so different for her. She of course has her first birthday in Janurary and she’ll be able to use her new present opening skills again then.
It’s been a busy week and I’m glad to have a few more days with the family to enjoy with out any major events to prepare for. It’s nice to just relax and enjoy the spending time with Melissa and the Kids. It all changes in January, first Jacob starts preschool and them mommy goes back to work. I’m also hoping that Violet starts walking in the next few days, I missed her first few steps while as at work, I don’t want to miss when she finally releases that she can walk. Of course I can’t make it happen it will happen when she’s ready and with my luck it will be on the morning of my first day back at work.
With the Christmas rush over and our house mostly back together I had hopped to get back to regular blogging today, but when I saw this video I thought I had to share:
