O'Doyle Drools

Along with Harold the Slightly Unstable Kitty, current undisputed head of the house, we're making the big leap into parenthood, so what better time to start the Doyle Family Blog (likely "Doyle453894 Family Blog" given how many other Doyle families are probably already blogging). We figured this would be a great way to:

1. keep family and friends posted during the 3 month gaps in phone messages you get from John (obviously much shorter gaps from Melissa)
2. let you comment back to us and tell the world what you think about ongoings and stories from the Doyle Family
3. let you smile, laugh, question, snicker, taunt, or outright heckle us when reading our blog in the privacy of your own home
4. provide an email address where we both receive the messages, so you no longer have to worry about keeping track of doyle.melissa, gerbi.melissa.bluecross, colby.1999.edu, jf_$%doyle@hotmail, harry@kittycat.com, etc...

Hopefully all of the above reasons will make our blog useful. If not, we'll use the experience to write an internet book on the top 20 signs of a dud blog.

We may never get back to the 1970s-style "family phone number" where there was one number you used to find everyone, but this should get us close. We'll have a single email address and fill up our blog with plenty of stories and pictures to keep everyone entertained, or at least up-to-date. Who knows, as our kid(s) grow up, maybe kids posting to the family blog will be the 1970s equivalent of dressing kids up like sailors for family pictures. It's just something everyone will do.

Last but not least, for those who are wondering about our blog title, O'Doyle Drools. Well, babies will drool. And little Doyle will probably drool. The rest is best explained by distant Doyle relatives, chronicled in Billy Madison a few years ago. Ideally there won't be a whole lot of ruling going on, or else we're going to have some serious problems in a few years.