Your mom and I have owned the domain names to the websites Showmenear and showmefar for several years. We ordered them up one night, no doubt well into a second bottle of wine. The names of these blogs may seem strange. So I thought I should explain them to you.
There's a TV show called Sesame Street. It was created by a guy named Jim Henson. He liked to make puppets. He created a group of puppets called The Muppets. Henson thought that he could make a fun educational program with Muppets that taught kids all manner of things, from the basics, like the alphabet and numbers, to more complex ideas, like friendship, sharing and disco. Sesame Street was his answer to the weird and nonsensical children's shows that were available at the time. He wanted to create a contemporary, urban setting filled with characters who didn't treat kids like morons. It's a pretty fun show.
One of the skits on Sesame Street teaches children about distance.
Grover was always my favorite Sesame Street character.
Several years later, a late night comedy show called The State did a skit where a family served a meal to guests. The meal was a delicious blue meat. It borrowed a little from Grover's lesson.
I can't explain how we decided to look and see if the domain names were available - but I know that we've tried several times to come up with a fun way to use them.
Now that you are here, I think we have finally found the inspiration we needed. We'll try to use these pages to give you some perspective on what it's like being new parents, and how your arrival has changed our lives.
I can tell you this already though: We love you more than we thought possible, and that won't change, whether you are near or far.
Love,
Dad
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