Is this thing on???

Welcome to the debut blog entry for the Werner family in Sammamish, WA.

I will start things off with a salvo of factoids and musings about ourselves, with no particular priority or other illusion of organization. By the way, "I" is Cooper... the dad of this family.

Why the blog? Well, to be perfectly honest, my parents recently moved to Korea, and I suggested to my mom that she start a blog as a way of sharing their new world. My suggestion was enthusiastically received, and she asked me for tips on creating a blog.

My response to her request for tips was a big "uhh... " followed by a few days of radio silence as I did my usual proscrastination and went sledding with my kids instead of figuring out how to blog and then sending her some tips. Eventually, however, as the guilt mounted from not responding and thus feeling like a neglectant (I make up my own words when none suit my needs) son, I finally decided to end the procrastination, figure out how to blog, pay it forward, and then feel good about myself for being such a good son :)

So... now our family has a blog, which means of course that we are now interesting to others, we assume that anything we think to ourselves should be posted for the world to admire, I am contributing to the growth of the internet, and I can write long run on sentences because this is web 2.0 country and I do what I feel like, including shifting back and forth between we and I, was and is, and using HORRIBLE grammar, but excellent spelling. It also serves as a hedge in case I am wrong and the internet isn't only a fad.

My apologies in advance for what is obviously the worst debut of a blog in blogging history, maybe the next entry will be better, but for now I am going to call this a win because it is accomplishing my objective of creating a blog in 5 minutes or less and then telling my parents about it. The best part of this blog is that even though it will suck and be uninteresting, it will soon have a link attached that serves as an Alice in Wonderland rabbit hole to a fascinating blog about life in Song Do City, Korea.

who we are:

Stephanie (the mom)
Cooper (the dad)
Jackson (the son and big brother), age 4 1/2
Mackenzie (the daughter and baby sister) age 2 1/2
Smokey (the dog)
Sammamish (the suburb)
Honda Pilot (the minivan)

Separate entries to follow in the coming days with more fun factoids about our team!!