The Original Because of Love

When I first started my blog, I thought that I would have about 5 to 7 readers - Josh, my mom, my dad, maybe my sister, maybe my friend Joy, and possibly a person who might stumble onto it on accident.

A little over a year later, I don't think that is the case.

First of all, I know that many of my friend have told me that they read my blog.

Then, I noticed that other people from church would tell me that they read my blog about ____ or they would bring up something I wrote a blog about in our conversation.

I started thinking that maybe more people than I thought were reading my blog when I started getting some comments from people I didn't know and some anonymous ones.

My dad also started to tell me that some people from his church in Raleigh told him that they read my blog.

Well, I noticed yesterday that I have had over 14000 hits on my little blog. What? That is crazy!

I thought that I would actually click on the little site stats thing to see what it said. Apparently I average about 100+ hits a day. Now, I know that to some people out there in the blog world, that is nothing. They probably have 100 hits an hour, but it really surprised me. That is much more than I would have ever imagined.

At first it made me a little excited.

Then it made me think, who? Are they people who go to Elevation? Are they friends from the past? Are they strangers?!

Then I got a little nervous. Maybe I shouldn't be giving out so much personal info about myself. (Josh and I had a little conversation about that, but it is a whole blog post in itself, so I won't get into that right now.)

Then I started to think, why? My life isn't all that interesting. I basically just get on here and write about my child and put a bunch of pictures of her up.

Then I started to get a little self conscious. Are people thinking, "Good Lord, enough with the pictures already!"? What if people think that I am really dumb and boring. Plus, I am not the most entertaining writer in the world. Maybe I need to focus more on my writing format.

Then I thought about maybe trying to be a little bit more serious and spiritual. Maybe I should share some more verses. Maybe I should talk about my walk with Christ more.

But now that I think about it a little more, I think that I am just going to keep being me.

There are some things that I might start to adjust a little, but I guess people are enjoying my blog the way it is right now.

Thanks to all of you who stop in. I am honored to be a part of your day!