My Husband is (Almost) Always Right!

Date Night, some kind of fancy Japanese variety...I think "Chopped Chocolate." We also ordered a mint chip shake to take home to Jake (his favorite) since he was home alone. We're cool parents like that.

I love this man. He is very wise. He knows me well. Well enough to know what my hangups are...and to tread lightly when addressing them. Take my perfectionism, for example. He doesn't roll his eyes and tell me to lighten up or get over myself. He goes about it like this...

Cliff (sweetly): "Can I talk to you about something?"

Me: (thinking, 'uh oh...he's using the voice...what does he want?') "Of course!" (Read: "As long as it's something I want to hear.")

Cliff: "Sweetie, I think people back home want to read about what we are doing now more than they want to read about what we were doing five months ago, just for the sake of keeping the blog in chronological order. Couldn't you just dedicate yourself to starting now to keep up...and then go back as you can to catch up the rest?"

I start thinking, "But that won't work! People won't like that! It will be all out of order! If they aren't subscribed to read it on Google Reader, they'll have to go over to the archives on the side bar and try to figure out what they haven't read and it will be inconvenient."

But then I realized, I'm probably the only one who cares if it reads in chronological order. And if people care enough to keep track so they won't miss a post, they probably already subscribe, even if in secret. (I know some of you do that, and I don't mind. I certainly don't do all this to keep a count of people who follow the blog.) OK, so my mom doesn't subscribe, and she's my biggest fan...but I'm going to teach her so she doesn't have to keep checking here every day, in vain. Love you, Mom!

And for those of you who DO read this in Google Reader, I know that regardless of the date I start the post...in Reader, it will show the date that I hit the "Publish" button. Since that will be confusing, if those dates are not one in the same...I will list the date each post occurred at the beginning of the post. Sound like a plan?

If you like it, you can thank Cliff.

Now I have to go so the shake snake can get on this computer to do an assignment he procrastinated. None of the others will work for his geography CD. I can NEVER get on this computer...and even when I think the coast is clear, five minutes later a kid comes in needing to get on for "an assignment." The irony? It's my computer! *sigh* It's a good thing I love them.