Starting out . . . again.

I've started a few blogs over the past couple of years.  I'm usually good about posting near the beginning but then they peter off.  I've never been completely satisfied with them because I've found them somewhat confining.  Each of the blogs I've started has had a fairly specific topic.  While this approach works wonderfully for some people, it doesn't fit me.  I'm interested in all kinds of different things and I'd like to post about many of them.  So how do I make them all fit together.

My husband recently started a blog of his own.  It was inspired due to his recent career change.  He is now a professional truck driver and his blog shows a little glimpse into some of his experiences.  The title for his blog is simply, "I'm Driving a Truck Now".  Building on his theme, I've entitled mine, "I'm Driving a Van Now".  I figured that the fact that I drive a van pretty much sums up what a lot of my life is currently about.

We purchased our mini-van when our fourth child was born.  Up until that time we drove cars and, for a time, we were car-less.  We also drove a snowmobile too.  The birth of our fourth child was a cross-roads for us.  We would no longer all fit in a car.  (I would have really liked a Volvo with the rear-facing seats in the back but those things are super-hard to find.)  Most SUV's are built to haul stuff and not people so we settled for a 2004 Ford Freestar.  I wanted roof racks and a rear seat that folded flat.  Flat-folding middle seats would have been nice too but I also wanted to pay cash and those options seemed to be mutually exclusive at the time.

Anyway, the point is, I drive a minivan.  Why?  Because I have four children.  Not everything on this blog will be about my children but many of the things will be inspired by them.  For example, I would have been interested in things like healthy eating even if I had never had children but the desire to feed my children well has increased my interest in healthy eating.

The last little bit of introduction will be introducing my family.  While nothing on the internet should be treated as all that private and I'm sure people could find out their names if they really wanted to, I'm not comfortable calling my children by their names on a public blog.  Honestly, trying to come up with a blog name and screen-names for my children are the main reasons I've been putting off this blog for so long.  I have taken inspiration from the movie Stardust for the screen-names for my children.  My oldest will be Prima, the next will be Secundus, the third will be Tertia and the fourth will be Quatrus.  (If you haven't figured it out, it goes girl - boy - girl - boy.  I still have to come up with a name for my husband.