One year ago I entered the blog world.
My good friend, Lori, over at
Life, Love, and Laughter in a Large Family, walked me through setting up a blog. She was my first follower, my oldest daughter the second.
I tried Twitter, Facebook, and Blogging. Didn't like Twitter, Facebook is okay, but I really liked blogging. Originally I desired the blog be a tool to help keep in touch with family and friends.
And then I made new friends. Other people who share thoughts and experiences online. People whom I've never met but feel I know. I enjoy reading other people's blogs as much as I like writing mine.
Thanks for sharing our lives and caring about my family.
Thanks for being a fun part of my life. Thanks for your comments and encouraging words.
As I celebrate a year of blogging, I remember something else Lori taught me:
Everything is more fun with friends.
In honor of this milestone, I am hosting a giveaway. drawing a random winner from anyone who who comments on this post. If you comment and are a follower, I'll enter your name twice. I'll draw a name on Sunday, March 21, 2010. The winner may choose from the items shown below.
Creative Memories Photo Sharing Card
Choice of either Black or Spargo. It comes complete with 1 card , 1 envelope, and 5- 4" x 6" photo mounting sleeves. Photo Sharing Cards are made of acid-free, lignin-free, buffered paper and will not harm photos. They can be used whether you scrapbook or not, as they are a nice way to send pictures to grandparents or friends.
Audiobook on cassette
True Devotion by Dee Henderson - Kelly Jacobs has already paid the ultimate price for loving a warrior: She has the folded flag and the grateful thanks of a nation to prove it. Navy SEAL Joe "Bear" Baker can't ask her to accept that risk again -- even though he loves her. But the man responsible for her husband's death is back, closer than either of them realize. Kelly's in danger, and Joe may not get there in time ... This romantic suspense with its theme of God as refuge provides a firsthand look at life in the military -- where serving God and country create truly Uncommon Heroes.
The rest are books in The Sisterchicks Series:
Sisterchicks Go Brit - by Robin Jones Gunn - Two midlife mamas travel to England and encounter so much more than the usual tourist stops. Nothing goes the way these two friends had envisioned. They start with a village pancake race and end up being held for questioning on The Underground. Kellie and Liz take a wild tour through the land of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien and then find themselves swept up, up, and away in a hot air balloon over the Cotswalds. They enjoy the sights and sounds of London with a few surprises thrown in.
Sisterchicks in Sombreros - Two Canadian sisters inherit beachfront property in Mexico and take off on an adventure to claim their inheritance. They travel by cruise ship to Ensenada and survive a rocky trip through Baja California, only to be shocked when they arrive in San Felipe. Their beachfront property is, indeed, on the beach, but the "structure" is an Airstream trailer their uncle parked on the property in the early 1960s! With the help of a few locals, the sisters figure out what to do with their less-than-desirable legacy. The true gift, they find, is that they reconnect as sisters and discover that everything that happened along the way was part of God's plan.
Sisterchicks Down Under - Kathleen joins her husband for a three-month trip to New Zealand when he's hired by a film studio in Wellington. Leaving behind her familiar comfortable corner of Southern California, she realizes that the past twenty years have been so tightly woven into the life of her only daughter that she's not sure who she is anymore. Kathleen meets Jill at the Chocolate Fish cafe. Even though the two women are very different at first glance, they find common ground and instantly forge a friendship that takes them on a journey where both Kathleen and Jill learn alot about God and themselves.
As a lifelong bookworm, I think books make the nicest gifts. Please leave a comment to be entered in the drawing for one of the above items.
As I look back on a year of blogging, I picked out my top 10 favorite posts. If you haven't been with me since the beginning, maybe you might like a peek into the archives. 
