Happy Two Years to Me

Two years ago today, I felt the Lord's permission to begin this online journal.

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"I'm so glad you're blogging," Papa Rooster said to me a few weeks ago.

"Really? Why?" I asked, curious to hear his answer.

"Well, it's a creative outlet for you. I see how much you enjoy it--and that makes me happy.

I like to read your blog while I'm at work. It helps me feel connected, even when I'm not at home.

And I'm glad you're writing down all the important things that are happening. It's great for our family to have a record of it all. The kids are going to love to look back at it someday."

"Don't you think maybe I spend too much time on it sometimes?" I asked. (I'm a night owl and he's not!)

"Sometimes," he wryly admitted. "But it's worth it."

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So I guess I will continue, with that vote of confidence from the person whose opinion matters most to me! Thank you so much, dear, for your blessing, your support and for being my biggest fan.

I really do enjoy this daily little mini-vacation into the realm of words, ideas, images and conversation. Though blogging may seem like a monologue, I think of it more as a dialogue with readers--be they family, friends, other bloggers, or readers unidentified to me. I don't want to just talk aloud to myself! Besides sharing our family news, I try to imagine what topics would be interesting to others, that I'm reasonably qualified to write on, and I enjoy trying to explore them in an engaging way.

So I'd love it if, to celebrate my two-year blogging anniversary, you'd leave me a comment on this post--even if you're reading it later on this week. Leave me an idea, ask a question, tell me what kind of posts you especially enjoy, or just introduce yourself and tell me where you're from!

(If you've never commented before, it's easy. Click on the "Comments" link at the end of this post, scroll down and type your comment in the box labeled "Leave Your Comment" and sign it with your name, pseudonym, city, or whatever identifier you wish to leave. Then select Anonymous (right below the comment window) and type the letters you see in the window below that. Hit Preview, if you wish to see how your comment will look, and end by clicking on Publish. If you'd rather send me an email, that's fine too! My address is in the sidebar.)

So begins, tomorrow, another year of blogging. Another year of praying, reading, cooking, cleaning, homeschooling, parenting, children's theater, church-planting, and being (a mom, a wife, a daughter, a friend, a Christian)--and those are just the most probable activities I'll fill the year with. Nothing is a certainty, of course, and God alone knows what else 2008 will hold. A move, we hope? New relationships and responsibilities? I am just so glad to entrust it all to my Lord. He will carry it all until I need to.

A BLESSED 2008 TO YOU ALL!

(Now, don't forget to leave me a comment!)