My 500th Post!!!

I feel as though I should have some huge something to say.

I don't.

But it is my 500th post!

So, what was going on my life when I started this blog and why did I start?

Well, I honestly didn't know anything about blogs or blogging at all until... 
About a month or two before I started my blog I had finally joined the Facebook wagon.  What is funny about this story is that I would be talking to my good friend Becky and she would say, "Oh geesh, so and so wants to be my friend."  I was like "Huh?"  She then explained to me what Facebook was.  She somehow always seems to be very privvy to all things new and trendy.  I laughed about it for a few weeks, cracking myself up with the whole "Can I be your friend?" idea until one night, while talking with her I decided to sign up.  What the heck...it was free right?  I was never on MySpace because it was bad.  I don't know why but I just knew it was bad, horrible, should be forbidden, etc.  Facebook....it seemed relatively innocent and kinda "cute."  So I started finding friends to ask to be my friend on FB.  One of these people was my childhood friend Kathy Smith.  She said "YES!"  Hahahaha!  Anyhow, she sent me a message and told me she didn't FB much but she had a blog.  I checked it out and pretty much became a stalker.  Yep...how embarrassing.  I loved the playlist she had on her blog and pretty much went there just to listen to the music (she has always had the best taste in music).  I think I actually read almost her whole blog in one evening.  After at least a few weeks of reading her blog I decided to start one of my own.  I had just had a major surgery and was sitting at home recovering so why not.  I had no idea what I was doing or exactly what my purpose would be but following Kathy's lead I thought I would write about "our life."  See, I started the whole scrapbook thing when it first became popular.  Actually, I started before the scrapbooking craze. I have a scrapbook I made Scott before scrapbooking became popular.  It is one where I actually used rubber cement, made all of my own cutouts, and the pages are a boring gray background that have began to fade around the edges.  I gave it to him the morning of our wedding.  So, when the scrapbooking craze hit I bought supplies, more supplies, cropped pictures, made some layouts, and now all of the stuff is sitting in a drawer downstairs in my basement.  The problem with scrapbooking for me is that you are always behind.  Serious scrapbookers are truly amazing and I hold them in very high regards!  It takes tremendous dedication to keep it up!  All of this to say, I had come to the conclusion that blogging was a much easier way to "scrapbook" and record precious memories, moments, thoughts, and eventually creations and recipes.  I love it!  It is rather therapeutic for me.  I have some friends that comment every once in awhile through the blog and then others who might say, "I read your blog."  It always kinda catches me off guard and then I feel a little silly because I instantly think, "Oh no!  What did I say!  Did it sound stupid or did I say too much!"  I blog so I don't forget because I have a terrible memory.  I blog to record what is going on in our family.  I blog hopefully to give others a giggle.  I try to blog with honesty and transparency.  I blog to hopefully encourage others.  I blog because I don't want to forget.  I don't want to forget the things that are on my mind so in a month or a year I can see how the Lord brought me through it.  I don't want to forget the everyday things the girls do or say that make my heart melt.  I don't want to forget I have so many blessings! 

Depending on where you look on my blog there are two numbers recording "visits."  This cracks me up because I am always visiting my own blog.  Hahahahaha!!  I am not really that self-absorbed (at least I hope not)...I just go here to read, listen to my playlist, which are usually songs that are really speaking to me, and remember.  One of my friends from church has two little girls.  They are 2 and 1 and 14 months 3 weeks apart.  She likes to say it that way because they are actually closer the 15 months and she says it makes a difference.  HA!  I read her blog and I usually almost cry.  I look at the pictures and wish I could remember the preciousness of that time.  I have memories, don't get me wrong, but when your children are that close together you don't remember so much because you are surviving!  It was a crazy, crazy, crazy time in our life and I thank the Lord on High for His abundant grace which held us together.  I am so glad she is blogging, recording all the details because one day, although she might not have some beautifully put together scrapbook, she will have her blog. 

So, that's it.  My 500th post!!  You know what...I would love to know who reads this thing.  Hahahaha!  Okay, maybe I wouldn't.  Hahahaha!!!  Regardless of whether I know or don't know who ya'll are, know that I think about you and pray for you.  I hope you enjoy being a part of our journey.