Building a Family Blog

 I used to be really good at blogging.  Somehow life always seems to derail my best laid plans with things like technology advancements, aging and the inability to pull more hours out of a day.  I'm not sure whose idea it is to change how electronic things work on a regular basis.  I find that I'm now challenged to make enough time to relearn where the right buttons are and how to resize things to the new pixel standard, so I sit down, cup of coffee and 20 guaranteed minutes of minimal interruption and literally get nothing done except the page opened up.  Multiply that by several years and I've all but given up!  

HOWEVER, here I sit, in an effort to create a site that may be available to even those who don't use FaceBook.  If you're like me, you have an account but don't use it unless you're trying to find someone or buy a used bookshelf!  January seems like a good month for goal-setting!

My hope is that we can eventually have multiple contributors to this site.  To begin, bookmark this website so you can find it easily.  Consider subscribing via your email so you will get notifications when something new is posted.  Send me your suggestion, stories and photos to:  jeandreasen@me.com or text them to 402-525-5500.  I'd like to create a post to feature each family.  Once I get things going and know that this will all work, it can evolve.  

I will also use this site to post new information as it is available about the upcoming reunion.  For today, if you haven't already, save the date:  July 28-31, 2022.  Everything has its bumps and we were bumped from the original location near Ogalalla, NE but I am days away from securing another really great location in Northwest Nebraska.  

What can you do to help me you ask?  :)  Pay attention to this site.  Mark your calendar.  Plan your vacation time.  Tentatively, we are hoping that the cost (not including individual travel and extra excursions outside of the reunion) will not exceed $150/adult.  If you're hesitant due to Covid, unknown life evolution, not sure if you will enjoy any of your extended family that you haven't seen or even met, or anything else, just suck it up and plan to come. There is bound to be something or someone that will make you glad you did!  Technology has made it so convenient to connect sometimes that we've forgotten our real need for maintaining real connections and the importance of being able to pass our family history from generation to generation.  

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Leave a comment so we can all be assured that this page is being seen and copy the link and send it to family you have contact information for...we want to try to reach everyone...hopefully if you get duplicate messages, you'll feel more love than annoyance!  :)

~Janel (Granddaughter of Leonard, daughter of Sandi)