Hello World.

Katie and I started this blog a month or so ago, and have yet to tell anyone we did it -- of course, part of that is due to the fact that there is nothing on the blog to read.

Until now.

Not that there is still much to read. It will serve as a type of journaling tool for me, and later as our lives get more exciting, family members and such may find it worth reading. I echo my sister Christa who started her blog with the same philosophies:  It ain't cute.  It might not be interesting.  I'm not forcing you to read it either.

Now family of mine, I know what you're saying. It goes something like "You never post on the family blog. Do you really plan on posting on your own?" Answer: Nope. I sure don't.

The second reason to create a blog now is because of the fact that as far as we know, Katie is not pregnant -- despite the "Bert and Kate plus 8" title that the blog window is currently showing. We've talked about how so many of our friends start blogs as soon as there's an addition to the family coming. Don't get me wrong -- it makes sense to start a blog for those reasons -- suddenly life gets more interesting and you want to share the details about it with the world. Those days will come some time, and I'm sure we'll be a whole lot more excited to post about it than people are to read about it.

We're blogging mutineers among a generation of pregnancy-induced blogs. This is not a blog started because we have any great important news to share or offer. As such, this blog will likely be ... sparse. For those of you who use news feed "readers" and care to follow, I suggest just adding this to it so the updates will come to you, because as often as I post, you may forget this blog exists between posts.