My blog is one year old today!
My, how that first year has flown by.
My first post was written when we were in Florida playing while John was working.
Oh, how I'd love to be in Florida today. We're hoping to go to Florida with him again this summer, but hopefully this time he'll also get to spend some time playing. On the beach.
I love, love, love the beach.
Anyway.
Back to the blog birthday...
I'd been wanting to start a blog just for me, as opposed to the family blog I'd started and hadn't kept up very well. At all.
I had found my layout, decided on a name, and had secured my url with blogspot. I wanted it to be about all the changing seasons in my life, seasons which change daily sometimes.
Like how yesterday I entered the season of my "baby" getting her driver's permit.
I cannot believe my baby has her driver's permit. And for the very last time we'll get to teach one of our children how to drive.
Oh, I can feel the stress already. Teaching kids to drive is hard because I don't have much control.
And I really like to have control. As much as possible.
Anyway.
Back to the blog birthday...
That morning one year ago I was running on my favorite Florida trail and I was thinking while I was running about starting my own blog. What would I post? What would I want my blog to be like? Yes, I had already put some thought into the basics, but what would I do differently this time so that I would post more often (besides making time to post more often)? I really wanted my blog to work this time, not work for awhile and then peter out. And I got some good ideas of how to do this while running.
It all came together.
And I was so excited to get going. Right now.
I got back to the hotel, showered (etc.), and wrote that first post.
You can read it here.
It's been a great year. I've been able to capture never-before-recorded memories, share personal training type stuff, post quotes that have helped me through different things and motivated me to do other things, post some kind of silly things, share some parts of my testimony of Christ, record new memories, and my blog has given me an outlet for some of the random things that swirl around in my head that I don't want to forget. And I've been able to record a few of the gajillion tender mercies that I've received the past year.
I think that last part has been one of the greatest blessings this new blog has given me, because I've learned, the hard way, that when these tender mercies aren't recorded they're forgotten.
And I never want to forget any of the tender mercies my Heavenly Father sends me daily.
Because I know He sends them to me daily, to all of us daily, and when I notice them, I am reminded of how much He loves me. Knowing how much He loves me helps me get through anything.
Anything.
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