Back From the Nothing

We’ll say this right up front for all those among our readership who thought immediately, upon learning that we were going to be keeping a blog, that we would fail in our enterprise and not keep it up:  You were correct.  It has now been fourteen months since our last blog post, and no matter what has happened in the meantime, we have failed in our task of keeping this thing up to date.  For that, I will make no apologies. My sister has five kids and manages to keep hers up no matter what, so we certainly won’t make any excuses for ourselves here. 

That being said, let’s see if we can’t do a little better here going forward.

No one reading this is going to be altogether unfamiliar with the events of the past fourteen months.  Dawn and I both have Facebook pages that we keep fairly up to date with pictures of Adam and other general commentary on the state of our life as it is presently constituted. But blogs, as I understand them, are not really built to be updates or news bulletins.  Rather, they seem the natural habitats of rants or gushing of a general nature. With that being said, the next several posts will most likely be of one character or the other, but there will be several coming to bring the rantgush (Or should it be gushrant? No, I like rantgush better, even though it sounds like something one might catch if one didn't have all of one’s shots in order before one traveled to a subtropical country) quota up to the present day.  So. Stay tuned for that.

As a final comment for this blog, though, I will say this: It’s been an insane year for us here in the Brumbley household, and things have changed drastically, but when things change as completely as they have for us in the last fourteen months, it highlights those things that are still the same. It makes those points of stability more important and more valuable, because you have to rely on those things more than you ever have before.  We have each other, we have the gospel, we have our fiction, and we have some form of caffeinated soft drink close at hand. Not everyone will set their priorities in life in quite that order, I realize, but for us, that’s a pretty good baseline to work from.

Here’s to more blogging, and to the many rantgushes to follow. Cheers.