No, this is not my wedding anniversary: this is my blogging anniversary.
In the past year, a lot has happened. My husband and I moved to Australia. I had a baby. I went from working full-time to being a mom full-time. I learned to cook. I had abdominal surgery.
I guess that doesn’t sound like a lot, but I feel like I’ve learned a lot this year.
In the past year, I’ve written more than 80 posts. Here are some of the things I experienced and learned (and wrote about):
- My childbirth story, and what I learned
- My cooking story: how I went from being afraid of the oven to cooking dinner every night
- Lessons learned from cooking a thanksgiving dinner
- An explanation of why I started blogging
- Healing: a story of an everyday miracle
- Testimony: The power behind teaching 12-year-olds
- Lessons learned while cleaning
For good measure, here are my favorite recipe and my favorite photographs.
In looking back over these posts, I realize that not many of them have anything to do with being in Australia. I could have learned these lessons anywhere. I guess that’s the point of life: we learn what we need to learn, wherever we are.
As a stay-at-home mom, I know that I need an outlet where I can develop my creativity and my own thoughts. That’s why I like my page: it is mine.
Notice that I call it “Rebecca’s Webpage.” It is not our family page. (I don’t think my husband even reads it; if he does, it’s a month after the fact.) At the same time, I will write about my life, and of course my family is a huge part of that.
This page is my personal forum and journal, online. And I love having a place to write. When I think about this blog, I feel satisfied. And I think that’s the reason I write it.