Flashback Friday

 On March 31, 2004, the cherry blossoms were in bloom in Motomachi Park in Yokohama, which is where we lived. It's such a pretty time of year in Japan.

Flashback Friday

Today my mom would have turned 90. She wasn't a Harrison, but she loved the Harrisons. And the rest of her family too. The people in this picture were everything to her, and she was everything to us. 

Flashback Friday

Spring arrives this weekend. Here's a spring memory from Harrison days past.

Flashback Friday

You know what brought the blog back from its break? The answer is a very important Flashback Friday. One year later, this not-so-little-guy-any-longer is mobile and smiley and social and finding his voice. Happy almost Birthday Owen - you are so loved!

Blog Announcement

 After 17 years of continuous blogging, you might have noticed that for most of the last two months I've been on a blog break. Part of my break has to do with blog fatigue. But the other reason for the break is I've started to worry about blog privacy, and I was in a bit of indecision paralysis as I wasn't sure what to do about my privacy concerns. 

Happenings at the Harrisons started out as a way to communicate with our kids when they were in college and with our parents who lived far away from us. (I started the blog the month John started college.) Since then a few things have changed - mostly that our family text threads make the blog somewhat irrelevant. Since the arrival of our first grandchild over three years ago, Happenings at the Harrisons has been evolving into a love letter to our growing group of grandchildren, while still being a family journal. Which means that even though the news portion of the blog is less important, I still feel strongly about keeping it going. And since our grandkids have become a big focus of the blog, I want to make it a safe and private space. 

Which brings me to my reason for this post. This blog has always been written with the intent that it be private, but I'm making some changes to make it even more private. The biggest change is that the blog will only be accessible to authorized readers. I'm hoping that'll accomplish my goal of privacy. To that end, I need to tell Blogger the email address of all authorized readers. If you're immediate family, I've got you covered. If there are any Harrison friends who would like to be able to keep reading the blog, I totally welcome that. I'm just not sure who you all are. So please send me an email at susanpharrison@gmail.com and I will add you to the reader list. 

I'm going to keep this message up for about a week, and then I'll close the blog to all but authorized readers. 

In the meantime, if anyone has any suggestions for any additional ways to make the blog more private and/or for moving my blog to a different/better/more private platform, or hosting it myself, please let me know. I haven't been happy with Blogger for years, but I feel like I'm stuck here as the blog is so big and I'm intimidated to move it. 

Thanks!

Flashback Friday

Wisconsin's newest driver on January 27, 2009.

Flashback Friday

Lloyd and Freddie have a red winter coat that they both like to wear. We kept telling them that their dad had a red winter coat at the same age - and here's proof. John at age two and a half in Racine.