One year ago today, I created this blog. Oh how time flies when you are being stretched, stressed, and blessed!
I have enjoyed blogging - much to my surprise! My kids actually insisted I start it because "everyone who is adopting has a blog." I agreed both to pacify them and because it did seem like an easy way to include many in our journey.
The ONLY thing I have not enjoyed about blogging is that I have NO IDEA who actually reads this! Every once in a while someone will tell me they have been reading my blog and I will be shocked because I had no idea! That is OK. I know I read lots of blogs that I never comment on, but it makes me really curious about who exactly reads this thing. So I have come up with a plan... some may call it a bribe.
I would really appreciate it if you introduced yourselves. Just leave me a comment and tell me who you are, or how you found my blog, or why you read it, or something that has challenged you , or encouraged you... basically tell me anything! And I will enter your name in a drawing for this:
My Crazy Adoption is giving away 2 fully paid mission trips to Ethiopia. In order to enter you have to buy one of her t-shirts. The profits from the t-shirts will actually pay for the mission trips! How cool is that? (To read more about her giveaway or to see the t-shirts, you can click on the mission trip giveaway button above.)
Since I love to buy t-shirts and I would really,really love to send someone on a mission trip, I decided to use this giveaway as a way to (hopefully) discover who reads this blog.
So, if you leave me a comment "confessing" that you read all about my life, I will enter your name in a drawing for one of the My Crazy Adoption "Simply Love" t-shirts. I will purchase the lucky winner the t-shirt of their choice, thus entering them in the drawing to win the mission trip. (If you do not want to go on a mission trip, introduce yourself anyway! You could choose to give the mission trip to someone else.)
Now some of you have been followers and commenters for a while. To reward your faithfulness, I will give any current follower of my blog with 3 entries if you comment below!
If you choose to become a new follower and comment below, I will enter you twice.
If you choose to only comment or to comment via text or email instead of on the blog (I do understand not wanting the whole world to read your thoughts! It still freaks me out a bit that I bare my soul on-line!) I will enter you once.
Now the way I figure it you have very good odds to win a t-shirt as the most comments I have ever had on a single post is 6!
You have from now until October 24th to enter my blogiversary give-away. I will announce the winner on my blog on October 25. Good-luck and thanks for your support and prayers this last year!
