And happy blogiversary

It is easy to remember BB’s birthday, as it is the day that daddybean started the blog initially i was rather dismissive, after all, who would read it , and we would never keep it up. I am not often wrong but i do admit to it on this occasion – giggle!! 6 years and this currently says it is the 2275 blog post – not bad for something I wasn’t sure would keep going!

SO why has it worked??

I guess because there are 2 of us blogging. Daddybean has been less regular at blogging of late, and I am trying to encourage him to return. He IS the main home educator, even if recently mine has been the main voice here. We see things differently, do things differently and yet the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. You just can’t tell that from just me. I am more ‘schooly’ and he is more ‘freeform’ and I think that is one of the strengths of how we go.

it has worked, perhaps, because we are careful in what we write, that we don’t wish to open windows to the inner sanctum of how the family works. We don’t blog the grumps and groans of wider family and work life. it could be argued that this is therefore a ‘pollyanna’ blog, maybe, but it is a pretty real representation of us.

It has worked because in blogging we have made new friends, good friends who have supported us through the difficult, laughed with [and at] us in the joyous, cried with us and we have laughed, cried and supported them too. Then in real life we have met, broken bread [and more importantly cake and chocolate] and drunk wine [lots]. This community is sustained through blogging. Although we might tweet or BK also, the who we are and where we are is there on our blogs and we keep real to each other that way to keep us going until the next cakefest/meet.

finally it has worked because as the blog has kept going, even though i may be one of the most boring bloggers in the ring, we can see it as a message to our future children that we loved and cared for them, and that we worried, hoped and worked to make the best now we could give them to hopefully give them the best options for the future, even if we are proved wrong in the end. One day our voices will be stilled, and even if this blog stutters and changes as they get older and perhaps wish for less discussion of their lives on it, it will remain for them, hopefully, a celebration of our family.

So, thankyou blog, writing you seems like a chore at times, reading you might also seem like a chore at times but in whatever guise you are in currently, i am glad we have got this far