From the American Heritage Dictionary:
high jinks or hi·jinks (hī'jĭnks') pl.n. : Playful, often noisy and rowdy activity, usually involving mischievous pranks.
For a while now I've wanted to create a family blog where we could capture and re-live all of the fun family memories that made us who we are. Before you can have blogging, you need a blog and you need a web address.
In coming up with a name for a family blog where everyone from our extended family could post, I considered names that included words describing the Taylor gorillas, etc., but I didn't want to leave out all of the non-gorillas. I hoped to create a broader base which included the entire extended family, but how do you describe us all? Is there one adjective or phrase that captures who we are? We can't all be grouped under something like "Laird's Legacy" (for obvious reasons :-P). Even something as generic as "The Taylors" leaves out our Brandt and Shorty relations. I quickly realized that I wasn't ready to do something on so grand a scale. Instead I contented myself with something centering around our immediate family's experiences. [I'll defer a more expansive treatment of our family's experiences to another, more ambitious and capable person.]
With the scope of this project sufficiently limited, the title just popped out of my head fully formed. Higley Hijinks may seem somewhat narrow and exclusive for a title, and it's probably a bit dated in both time and location. However, when considering the entire Taylor family experience, Higley is our foundation, and it seemed fitting that it was part of the title (and space on the web). So, each of you have been enabled with the ability to post to this blog, and I hope you all do! I look forward to documenting and reading everyone's accounts of the shenanigans that took place while we lived under the same roof as well as the current hijinks that are a result of the people we became.
So, with this opening post, I declare it open season for Higley Hijinks!!!
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Hooray for you, Ben!!!! I'm so glad you set this up for us all. You are definitely a do-er. I'm grateful for the technical knowledge and experience you share with us so we can contribute. My first post will be how we got the Higley house - the house-hunting experience. XO, Mom
I need pictures!! Everyone: scan, crop, post, repeat!
I'm going to dig through what pictures I have and see what I can scan in.
Ah... where to start... I don't really have a lot of pictures on hand where I am - but I'm sure mom has tons of them!
I've got lots of funny memories though! I'm hoping this will turn out to be a great repository of information of the lighter-side of life in Higley!
Um, how do I post a story instead of just comments?
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