Happy New Year!

Finally, what job it has been to edit this blog! Last month I realized that none of us were paying attention to what had been, for about 18 months, a pretty active private extended-family blog. I decided to turn it into my own blog instead but first I had to:

• edit out all the entries made by other people
• delete all their comments (since they were all made on a private blog originally, who knows which comments should stay and which should go?)
• edit names from the posts that I decided to keep

The result - just over 100 posts from the orginal 350 - is what's left. If anyone flips through the entire thing and thinks it seems disjointed or jumpy, just keep in mind that it is no longer whole.