University of Blogspot

Next month marks the fourth anniversary since the very first post appeared on "Little Family in the Big City."  Four years of blogging the ends and outs, the mundane and the dramatic, have passed.  Four years.   The  time it takes to earn an undergraduate degree.  The time it takes to move across the Continental Divide, help plant a church, and move back across the Continental Divide to an entirely different city in an entirely new region of the country.

Since I consider myself the nostalgic type (why not put that History major to use somehow), I thought a moment down memory lane was deserved.

Where were you four years ago?  Consider the following to give yourself some perspective...

In September 2007

• Facebook had only been available to the public for about a year
• The IPhone just hit the market months before in January 
• Netflix was experimenting with streaming movies instead of just mailing them
• The Wii had been on the market less than a year
• No major movies had yet been made about a blog (Julie & Julia was released in 2009- I'm not sure how she beat out Little Family in the Big City.  Still trying to figure that one.)
• George Bush was still in the White House

and on a more personal level...

• we had just moved into our home in Portland, OR
• there are comments on those first posts from Oma, Jason's dear grandmother who went to be with her Lord in 2008 (followed by Opa in 2009 and my Granmama in 2010)
• Eleanor had just learned to do this...

• and Jason had just purchased this...his Xtracycle

•  Hope Presbyterian Church was pretty much Jason and Pat meeting for coffee
• and my babies looked like this

• and blogger wouldn't let me post a picture any bigger than this

People always tell you "it goes so fast."  It starts to sound a bit trite, but I guess things get trite because somewhere in there there is some truth.  Children grow. Life changes.  We long for what was because in many ways we are so deeply longing for what will be.   I think it is good to remember.  I think it helps us understand today.  Where were you four years ago?  How have you changed?  What do you, today, want to remember?