A Year Ago ...

Hopefully I managed to get the blog changes done without messing anything up -  and to start out fresh, I figured an anniversary event would make a good post with which to launch ... it's our first blogiversary :>))

So how did I/we arrive here? .... on Feb 7th of last year, after I spent most of January delving into DD/ttwd Blogland ... and 10 days after I pulled Frank into my discoveries, I got up the courage to send a joint email to two bloggers whose blogs I had read end to end ... Ella (Ella Ever After) and Meredith (New Twist After All These Years). I had focused on their blogs because they and their spouses were close to us in age. They were also high school sweethearts as were we. The subject line of that first email was ... 'A Newbie Here, Waving :>))' ... and to my excitement and surprise they both responded the very next day. Welcoming and supportive are the first two words that come to mind. 

Truth be told, I was a bit ahead of the game, having already started work on a private blog to use as our personal journal as we explored this DD/ttwd world. Once I'd admitted that fact and then shared a post I'd posted privately on (Feb 6, 2018), they tag teamed me with encouragement and kind words. My thought at the time was Frank and I were too new to this DD/ttwd for me to be publicly blogging about it all and I should just keep on with the private blog version until we figured out where we were going. However, they both assured me I would fit right in and encouraged me to check the Public setting in my Blogger Dashboard. One year ago, on Feb 12th, 2018, I did just that, at the same time as both of them gave me a helping hand into Blogland with simultaneous announcements on both of their blogs. 

... so thank you again, Meredith and Ella - I couldn't have done it without you ... 

... and to all of you out there in Blogland, who've dropped by over the past year be it just to read, to provide supportive comments and suggestions, or to write behind the blog emails and offer friendship - thank you! ...

Together you have given Frank and I a sense of belonging ... to this wonderful and supportive community in the ttwd corner of Blogland 💖