And now let us welcome the New Year
full of things that have never been.
-Rainer Maria Rilke

In honor of my two year bloggiversary, I thought I'd actually post. I almost posted this quote at the beginning of the year, but I couldn't get my thoughts out right. Mostly because they were all over the map.

This quote is actually very fitting as I look back on the last two years. I doubt I would have welcomed all the new things that came at me in 2005 and 2006. I had no idea on February 7, 2005 that I was actually homeschooling both girls for the last year. In fact, I was feeling better and more competent about homeschooling than I ever had. But, the truth is that as much as I miss it (and I do miss it), school is good for the girls. They like it. I think Lillie has the best deal with cutting out early every day, but it works for both of them.

I felt sad reading our typical day because those were good days and I'm glad we had them. I'm also glad to see that I moved away from homeschool-centric posts pretty quickly because they were a bore.

It's funny because I actually feel nostalgia for the first year of blogging. I discovered Amira, Susan and Jen who are all stilling blogging. Crapples, Gabby, and Motherofall are no longer blogging. Ned is in that in-between stage where he posts now and then. The angry mormon was going strong and Banner of Heaven was irritating and entertaining and Unofficial Manifesto was a fun place to be.

The whole blog-world was this interesting place to be. Commenting was fun. Now, I read a post and even if I have something to say it rarely feels worth my time to comment. Which, in some ways is good. I like that I spend less time on the computer these days. But, I do miss the relationships that I had built up and I do miss writing. I'd like to get back to it. There's so much here in this blog that I'm glad I have written down. We'll see, though. I'm not sure how much of my silence has been that I was no longer sure what I wanted to share in a public forum and how much was just running out of material.

The new year will be full of things that have never been. Let's just hope they are good ones.