Well, we made it. My blog is 1-year-old today. And just like my human children, I can’t believe how fast it’s grown. Heck, I can’t believe how fast I’VE grown over the past year. I still have so much to learn but I’m gonna give myself a little pat on the back today.
The only thing I knew for sure was I wanted to blog about all the crazy mishaps and shenanigans my family gets into on a daily basis. I wanted to document each story for posterity so I could:
A) Constantly remind my family what they put me through.
B) Have something embarrassing to hold over my boys’ heads when I want something from them in the future.
C) Evidence. In case child protective services ever gets called.
As I look back over the year’s posts, I’m astonished at the full circles my life has taken. One of the first posts I did was about my fear of everything reptilian and my last posts were about all the reptiles that have taken up residency in my house (thank you very much, Mark).
The other “full circle” was that I started this blog not knowing how to tie my proverbial cyber shoes and a year later, being asked by the amazing people at Disney to perform and speak at a Social Media Moms’ Conference. Crazy.
Turns out, I love to blog. I was meant to blog. I’ve tried all other mediums…I own thousands of dollars in scrapbooking accoutrement and have only done 2 pages. I bought 7 (that’s right, 7) baby books for my 2 boys and they each have 2 pages done. (hmmm, I see a trend). I’ve taken thousands of hours of video of the boys and it sits in a box with all the editing software that’s unopened.
But blogging is like telling all your family’s stories to a friend. A friend that laughs and commiserates with you in the form of sweet, supportive comments. Thank you all for your comments. They’re like the surprise in a box of Cracker Jacks. (Sometimes cheap and useless but always fun to get!)
So, cheers! everyone. Here’s to the next year of painfully embarrassing and frustrating posts…
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Happy Birthday to your blog. 🙂 Cheers! Here’s to all the fun reading that is yet to come!
Happy Blogiversary!
and hilarity! xoxo congrats! love the banner!
Happy Birthday to your blog 🙂 Great steps you are taking.
P.S. You were hilarious at the Disney Social Media Moms Celebration, I am so happy that I got to see you perform, had me cracking up!
Hugs!
Congrats on your blog birthday. A blog does feel like another child at times, except a blog does not its snowboots in the middle of the kitchen floor so you can trip over them and hurt yourself (sorry I had a flashback). I love your comment on scrapbooking. Blogging is totally better than dealing with all that paper and stickers and crap.
Much continued success funny lady
Congratulations on year one of blogging! Love reason B for blogging. Of course, with my luck my oldest will be blogging soon enough since he sees both of his parents doing it. I actually celebrated by third year just days before heading to Disney for the Social Media Moms event. Blogging is a wonderful type of therapy for me. The perk, I get to share with family and friends near and far. Now if only there were more hours in the day to blog about all that pops up in my mind.
Here is to many more years to come of happy, healthy and funny blogging!
Congratulations on your anniversary. The header is beautiful, and this post is incredibly inspirational
Happy Blogoversary! I thoroughly enjoyed hearing you at the Disney Social Media Moms Celebration. On the way home from the event, we stopped in Atlanta to visit our dear friends and she and I watched your DVD! Even more hilarious the second time around! THanks for the laughs.
Happy Blog-a-anniversary… enjoy!
Happy Blogaversary. Stinky Flowers makes the blogosphere smell better.
hey maryellen,
it’s margaret the adoptive parent from your show in San Antonio.
just wanted to say hi there and see your blog. enjoyed the show!