I’m going to do my best, but I predict 2025 is going to be another tough year for the blog.

Those words, written back on February 20, 2025, turned out to be a pretty accurate forecast for what the year had in store. The site hasn’t fared a whole lot better through the first half of 2026.

The bottom line? Life happens. And a lot has happened over the last two years. At some point, I hope to document it all. In the meantime, here’s a review of 2025 and the plan for the remainder of this year.

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you might miss it.”

Ferris Bueller, 1986

When you are in the midst of raising four kids, the chaos feels like it will never end. The incessant noise around the house, sports practices, school events, taxiing kids around town. It’s easy to lose sight of the big picture, because just like that, one by one, they go off to college. And before you know it, then there is none. Nearly forty years after the movie was released, those words uttered by Ferris himself have never rung more true for me.

Needless to say, 2024 has gotten off to a slow start for the blog. There’s multiple reasons (aka excuses) this has happened, but I’ve come to the conclusion that I need to update and reorganize the website to get me focused on more regular posting.

Those were the words I used what I made the plans for the blog in 2024 – August of 2024 to be exact. If you don’t be believe me, you don’t have to scroll down the front page of the blog that far to read the entire article. It more or less sums up what happened in 2024 because that slow start extended through the end of the year.

Normally, I do a review of my blogging from the previous year and post plans for the coming year. I’m going to keep it simple this year.