Holy cow.

 

My original intention was to have my new website up and running after one week.  It would be completely overhauled, pictures where I want them, links and categories clearly set and user-friendly, ads running.  There would be nothing left for me to do except write, write, write.

I was also going to have my daughter potty-trained by the time she was two.  I planned to teach my kids to read at home, before they started school, so I would know that they were well-versed in the phonics method I feel so strongly about.  My son was going to eat whatever I put in front of him.  And my kids would never sleep in my bed (unless, like in The Sound of Music, there was a particularly scary thunderstorm).

I could continue this list, but I think you get the point.

As you can see if you’ve been here before, this blog has definitely changed.  It is, however, a work-in-progress.  I completely underestimated how much time it would take for someone who has had no experience whatsoever with building websites, writing HTML code and the like to build a site.  Never mind that I chose a “user-friendly” platform, that I’ve used this platform before or it allegedly comes with a support section.  (A platform, by the way, is more or less the program through which you build your site.)  My frustration built to Vesuvian levels as the week progressed.  I did not know, for example, the difference between a platform and a host before I undertook this project, and the computer manuals I was using failed to define terms like these in their if-you-have-to-look-this-word-up-you’re-too-much-of-an-idiot-to-be-doing-this glossaries.  The manuals’ writers evidently assume that everyone knows the differences between, say, HTML, XHTML and PCP codes.

Getting Uncharted Parent to where I want it to be is going to take me longer than expected, but I am confident that I will get it there eventually.  If I wait until that process is finished, however, my kids will be grown and living away from home, and I’ll have to start a whole new blog about retirement.  So as I continue to make changes to the blog, I will be adding new content and reposting some of the old posts over time.  So please have patience if, for a while, links don’t take you anywhere, posts are listed with forward chronology instead of reverse or fonts just look weird.  I’ll get to all of it sooner or later.  Just keep coming back and looking for new posts about parenting.

And if all else fails, I figure it’s only a few years until my five-year-old son’s computer literacy surpasses my own, and then he can straighten out the whole darn thing.