My, My how time flies......

 

It just seems like the other day I started this blog.  I never would have imagined in a thousand years, that I would now have so many new and wonderful friends.  Y'all Rock!!!  I can remember when I was excited about getting one or two comments, and those were from family.  Now sometimes I might get THIRTY, and I have SEVENTY people following me!!!! I really can't believe it, I mean I really am amazed that y'all keep coming back! 

Today my blog turns 1 year old!!!! Yep January 9, 2008 is the day I started this thing.  Ya know if I am not mistaken today is one of my best friends from my childhood's birthday, so Sonja if you are reading this Happy Birthday!

Let me give you a little background to how this all got started.......

~~~Scooby Doo Dream Sequence~~~

 

I was at the grocery store a little over a year ago, it was probably about October.  As I was grocery shopping, I was on the phone with my sister Lisa.  Here is our conversation (or at least something close to it):

Lisa:  You need to go to this website

Me:  Really what is it (Looking at the date on the milk)

Lisa:  Its called The Pioneer Woman, she writes about her life on a ranch with her Husband Marlboro Man

Me: (stops dead in my tracks in front of the cheese, puts hand on hips and say) What? you want me to go to some website about a pioneer woman???  What does she want me to do grind my own wheat or something?!?!?!?  (Lisa has her own wheat grinder or at least she used to)

(In my head I am picturing an older lady and her husband who smokes Marlboro's of course and live on their ranch, and for some reason my sister is fascinated by this.)

Lisa:  No!!!! You wont have to grind your own wheat!  Just go to the website, your gonna like it.

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So at work a couple of days later I go to the website www.thepioneerwoman.com

and I am hooked.  Apparently like a gazillion other people in the world!  I can get no work done, I am laughing so hard and loud at work that people are coming to check on me, so I make them go to the website and then they are laughing, and so on and so forth.  After a couple of months of reading her website, I started clicking on these interesting things called comments.  I started going to the peoples sites who left them.  That is when I realized that, "Hey, I can do this I think.  Lets give it a shot."

 

And a blog was born......

Not a very good one, but it was a blog.  I didn't even know what to write about, but I trudged on.

Lets read my very first post:

"Well this is my first post, and I don't have any idea what I'm doing. Apparently I am supposed to write down my thoughts, my ideas, my dreams. Lets see how long I last at doing that.
A little about me. I am a busy mom of three wonderful kids, sorry children (they are not goats (:  ), who keep me extremely busy. On top of that I work full time. Thank goodness for my husband without him, I would be crazier than I already am.
So any way that's all , because I don't have anything else to say write now."

Boy that was some great stuff!!! (Can you hear the sarcasm?) I mean since that time I have called my kids, kids a billion times.  Am I a hypocrite or what?!?!

and this is the one comment I had like two months later, right after I met my BBFF Jennifer.

jennifer said...

HEY, I'm out here! I had to read your first ever post (do you do that, read the first one on a person's site so you can see how styles have changed etc? or is this another weird Jennifer thing - wait, don't answer that). I'm totally done stalking you now, and I think I may go clean....I don't know, SOMETHING. Jennifer

I do have to admit I am really really surprised I lasted as long as I have, but oh am I so glad I have.  The experience this has brought me, the friendships are just unbelievably awesome!!!

God has used this blog world in some pretty amazing ways, and y'all I can't wait to see what happens this next year!

Now I am going to do something I have not done in all of my long one year blogging career.  I am going to have a give away.  This give away is a little different though, because I don't know what I am going to give away. 

The only thing I am for sure of is this.  Whatever I give away, will fit in this box:

 

Its about the size of a shoe box, and yes I know its a Christmas box.  You can always use the box next year.  Seriously though I don't  have any idea what I am going to put in it yet.   It will come to me though.  Also I will try my very hardest to get the gift out in a reasonable time frame.  I am a horrible procrastinator, so hopefully it wont be next Christmas when you get this box, and whatever mystery prize comes with it.

So entering is simple just leave me a comment telling me how wonderful I am.  Hahahaha Just kidding!!!

Just leave a comment, I don't care what you say.  Well I do care about what you say, y'all mean alot to me, I just don't want you cussing or being potty mouthed.  Not that, that has ever happened before.  Oh just go leave a comment!  :)

Anywho, Happy Blog Birthday, Blogiversary to me!!!!!!!!