Paranoia Will Destroy Ya

You may notice a few subtle changes around the ole blog. These changes are due to some not-so-fun circumstances in our community and my husband's growing concern for our children's safety. Don't worry, we personally haven't felt threatened. But you know, when I started this thing, I wasn't thinking about anonymity on the internet. I was thinking about getting my kids' pictures and cute stories out on a communal space so that my mom and my mom-in-law could easily find them. I never expected an audience of a few hundred from, quite literally, all over the world. (I'm using that term very loosely. I think the only regular international viewer of my blog is my cousin who lives in South Korea. But still! International!) And now we're realizing that while the majority, if not all, of my blog audience is made of entirely normal and wholesome people with no intent to harm our children, truly anyone could stumble upon my blog. And there are some icky characters out there.

With those terrible thoughts in mind, I've taken my family members' pictures and names off of the sidebar. I'm going to start referring to my children simply by the first initials of their first names. I haven neither the energy nor the will to create cutesy nicknames that adequately sum up my children's personalities. They are very young, and their personalities are still forming. Why be that parent of twins that forces expectations on her children at a young age? Plus I love my children's names, and I'd hate to pretend that they (their names) simply don't exist. I'm also going to be more vigilant about specific personal details. I've been careful in the past, but now I'm going to think twice and maybe three times before posting anything that could be in any way used against us.

This kind of sucks, right? My husband really wants me to go whole hog and make my blog entirely private and password-protected, which I'm not ready to do yet. I love making new-found friends through this medium, and I'd hate to limit the amount of people who can share in our fantastic adventures. (I say that tongue-in-cheek.) I'm not ruling out passwords for the future, but it's not an option I like a whole lot right now.

And you know, while I don't want to make up nicknames for my kids, I'm not above nicknaming my husband, whose personality is definitely set. So, how about The Professor? That sounds perfect.

Here's hoping your day is void of these grave matters and full of better things, like peanut butter sandwiches and matchbox cars.

(That's what's on our agenda, at least.)