Two Year Blogiversary!

April is almost over, so despite having lots of posts in the works about lots of more interesting things, I wanted to take a moment to acknowledge a milestone. It's been two years this month since I started blogging! I thought I'd celebrate with... you guessed it... a blog post! (So novel, I know.)

It's been an interesting year of blogging. I started a bad trend of waiting for forever to finally post about things that had happened, which led to a lot of back-blogging. There were months of blogging feast (like December... holy moly!) and famine (like October) but I'm so glad I stuck with it, and that you stuck with me, even through those long, boring stretches of seeing the same post at the top of my blog over... and over... and over again.

I'm a little nervous about whether I'll have time to keep up with this when residency starts, but I plan to make a concerted effort. It's really been a joy for me to have a creative outlet and space for reflection, and I think this journal will be such a treasure for me and my family to look back on someday.

I'm curious sometimes about who reads my blog, but since I'm more of a silent stalker on blogs myself, I don't mind that hardly anyone will step forward and admit to their guilty pleasure of reading about my oh-so-interesting life... haha! To those faithful commenters, though, thanks! It's always so exciting to get some feedback and to know that my stat graph isn't lying when it says that people stop by now and again.

I want to thank you all, silent or vocal, for being there, though. As I said last year (and don't feel like finding a new way to say, because, yes, I'm really that lazy efficient okay, lazy):

Posting something I've written is like sending out a message in a bottle. Writing the message can be fulfilling, but there's something extra exciting about casting it into the sea, wondering who might see it. Wondering if God might use something I've written to touch someone's heart. Or to make someone think. Or to give someone a needed smile or laugh. Or to proclaim the gospel. Or to brighten someone's day. The possibility of doing some good in this world, however small, through my writing gives me a thrill, and gives me extra motivation to keep writing.

If this bottle has washed up along your beach, thanks for taking the time to open it and discover what's inside. I truly appreciate you. Thank you for reading, for being such a beautiful part of a wonderful year! You are all in my prayers and are very much loved.

To echo my year younger self, many thanks and prayers, and much love to you all.


Kaitlin

"So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God." 
- 1 Corinthians 10:31

My old masthead. Even the new one is going to need updating, though! Here's my original masthead.