The Creation of a Blog!

Recent weddings of Nicole (Edlund) Stiles and Amy (Alley) Foster have brought the children of Charles W. and Beaulah (Myrlin--the feminine spelling) Moon together twice during this summer. It has reminded us just how blessed we are to be able to call one another family! I (Ashlee) decided that it would be neat if we could have a place where we would be able to post things of interest to the children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren of Charles and Beaulah (or Moonie, as Kristen calls her). During Amy's recent wedding, many of us gathered on the front porch of Kristen and Mike's quaint farmhouse and told stories, poked fun, and laughed until our guts ached. And so our blog is called "Front Porch, a place for gathering." Here at the Front Porch, we can post items of interest, maybe a picture or two, tell a funny story about one of your kids or grandkids, or give us the latest on Moo-Cow, the new kitty of Julie and Doug. We can share prayer concerns or praises or whatever you think that someone else might get a kick out of. Hopefully we won't have to wait until another wedding to get together!

Here's how the blog "thing" works: Currently, I am acting as the administrator, but I'm going to set this up so that others will be able to post stories (stories are called "posts") too. Anyone is able to post a comment on any post. You can do that one of several ways:

1. You can post anonymously by just following the directions after a post, or
2. You can get a "blogspot" account and your name with show up. (If you have a gmail account, you should be able to just put in that login name and password and you're golden. If you don't, just follow the instruction that I will put on a separate post.) If you are going to want to be able to post stories, you'll have to create an account.

One more thing...several of us talked about how fun it would be to be able to rent a place and all get together next summer. We talked about Branson or the Ozarks area. I committed to investigating some options (I'm going to twist Amy's arm to help me after life settles down for her a bit! I think she owes us, don't you :) ). If anyone has any leads or ideas, let me know. We'll try to get a date on the calendar by Christmas so that we can plan accordingly.

At the risk of sounding cheesy, I just want to remind us that we have been given a treasure in having a wonderful family! I know that Grandma, especially, would be so pleased to see us continuing to enjoy one another! So...it's now time for Virginia, Margie, and Tige's kids to pick up where our parents left off in planning those vacations to Hoisington, Augusta or St. Louis, sleeping on cots, enjoying cinnamon rolls, fruit loops and milk out of the Moo-Cow creamer. Ah yes, the Moo-Cow creamer! That's probably something that all of us grandkids remember. Now it's time to pass that memory on to the next generation! And so, in the awesome memory of the Moo-Cow creamer, I give an address for this Moon family blog that reminds us of the Moo-Cow, TravelingMooCow.blogspot.com will be our address. The cow went home with Kenton, Alison and Savannah. Who will be the first to go and pick it up to take it to its next destination?