Hello Again

It's been so long since my last post I feel like I need to introduce myself again.

Hello, my name is Rob and I live in the middle of the Midwest with my beautiful wife and my four little chaos makers, ages teenager, teenager, imp, and princess.

I starting this blog a few years ago as a way to capture a little bit of what goes on around here - partly to give far-away parents and far-away friends some pictures and stories that they wouldn't otherwise get and partly to just to have a record of our crazy life. It seems that blogging is a bit out of fashion now days, and some of what I used to post has found its way to the family on WhatsApp, but social media in general just doesn't appeal to me. I don't twit or like or link or swipe and I'm perfectly happy not knowing every detail of even my best friends lives. I have enjoyed the few comments I've gotten on this blog over the years, but I never wrote for comments or attention, nor to vent political frustrations or ponder social injustice, so I'm not sad when months pass without a peep from beyond these pages. In fact, I've found that I've enjoyed going back through my posts and just recalling the milestones, the vacations, the simple activities that have all contributed to the Pandemonium on the Prairie. My motivations seems to be just to write stuff down. So I'll try to keep writing.

One reason why there haven't been many posts this summer is that my (not so little) chaos makers have been ricocheting around in all different directions and while that makes for lots of memorable activities, it doesn't leave much time or energy for recording those activities. The prospect of trying to catch up with the entire summer is a bit daunting, so I don't think I'll try. Hopefully I can sprinkle in a few pictures and fill in a few gaps over the next month or so and maybe it won't matter that everything isn't in perfect chronological order. No promises.

Oh, and we don't have any pets, so if you are looking for cat videos you will have to go elsewhere.