Update

I've been feeling sort of nostalgic for the days when blogging was in it's glory days - and I (along with several others) routinely kept up our blogs, and connected, and even got in touch with one another from time to time.  But, alas "time and tide stand still for no man", and my (along with several other) blogs from back in the heyday are riddle with cobwebs, or (as I recently discovered clicking through some of my old links), are dead and gone.  

So, I seriously doubt anyone checks in here anymore, but just in case they do, and since it has been (I don't even know) how long since I last updated where my life is at, allow me to bring y'all up to date...

The Mother of Five - We are still together.  I can't speak for her, but I am still madly, and deeply in love with this AMAZING woman!  28 years married (31 years together) - and still going strong.    

#1 of 5 - 33 years old.  No longer at home.  Livin' his best life! 
#2 of 5 - 25 years old.  No longer at home.  Recent college graduate (Bachelors degree!)
#3 of 4 - 24 years old.  No longer at home.  Working in the trades and a homeowner!  
#4 of 5 - 21 years old.  Away at college, but still calls our house home-base.
#5 of 5 - 17 years old.  Still living at home.  Senior year of high school starts soon!   

As you can see, of the "five", only two still call our house "home" - and of those two, one is really only "home" about half the year (or less?).  

I still call myself the Father of Five, but in all reality...
I feel more like the "Father of One And A Half". 

Life has a way of marching forward - ever changing.   I do miss the old times when the kids were... well... still kids - but I am also enjoying watching them as adults and navigating their own paths.