crunching the numbers

I'm not the best mathematician out there (think Barbie: "Math is hard"), but even I can read numbers, and my blogging account is telling me that if you add up all those "I said what?" digits way down on the sidebar, you get the magical number of 500! Apparently, I've had the audacity to blab on and on over the Internets via blog posts 500 times now. While my first four posts sat in cyberspace all lonely for two years, I eventually remembered that I had started this silly little thing and it soon became an integral part of my life. However bloggers may be viewed by the media and general (i.e. non-blogging) public, I know that this outlet has served me since I really got going in April of 2007.

The numbers are interesting for me to look at... I can see that I've written about reading a full 17 more times than I have about Pudge, but in my defense, I've been reading a heck of a lot longer than I've shared my life with that adorable little 2-year-old. JAM is running behind Red by 5, but he's also in school all day, and I've spent almost every single day, all day with little miss Red for the last two and a half years. And, I'm thrilled to know that guffaws and humor round out the top five tags, since I try to keep a good level of fun in this space.

Mostly, what the number 500 shows me is that I've been able to keep at something that I enjoy, even as life took a couple of unexpected loop-de-loops over the last 2+ years, and that even though it's something that takes up some of my not-that-overabundant time, it's still something that I prioritize. While many people don't get it- the whole blog-writing or blog-reading thing, I do. This has become a part of my life, and I really freaking enjoy being morninglight mama. It's not so much about the numbers in the followers sense, (although I do have to admit that I prefer even numbers, so I asked lovely hubby to click the button the other night), it is about the connections. It really makes my day when I get a comment that says someone got a good laugh at a post (even if I'm just sharing a guffaws-worthy email forward), or when someone takes a brief moment to say that they can relate to something that I've shared here. Even the posts that don't get any comments at all still helped me to think something through or record a tidbit that I want to be forever in my blogging-memory.

I am definitely the person who most enjoys reading through this silly little blog, and I'm totally cool with that. Clicking over to the few posts that I've tagged faves brings a smile to my face, while some others (no need to specify here) make my heart race with refreshed sadness, fury or frustration, but they all are real. Whatever I put down here is true to my life, and that's why I started this thing in the first place.

So, 500 down, who knows how many to go. In the end, it's less about the numbers anyway. It's more about embracing my inner blogger, and making her stay up late at night click clacking away on the little laptop. She's beyond ecstatic to be here.


Feeling appreciative for this thing called blog,



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