I started this blog as a creative outlet for my brain that was overloaded with ideas, opinions and interests. It started as a "Dear Diary" kinda thing.
I expected to just have fun and make my blog entries with no expectations that anyone would read it.
Over the year, this blog has made me do some serious soul searching. This blog has made me dig deep inside myself to figure out who I am and why I am the way I am.
I found out that not everybody likes what I have to say, which is fine by me, because I appreciate everyone's opinion. But I also realized I care TOO much that not everbody likes what I have to say.
I realized that people are quickly to judge me by a few words that I might say but not take the time to really get to know me. I guess that was a shocker for my sheltered self, thinking that everyone lived in harmony and felt that everyone is allowed to have their own opinions and beliefs and people just accepted that fact.
Since I take everything to heart, it has made me realize that I shouldn't always.
This blog has gone from a few entries a month to about 15 a month.
It has gone from 2-5 pageviews a day to 100-200 pageviews a day! That's exciting! I didn't know I knew 100-200 people.
It got it's own Facebook page.
It has it's own email.
It is now it's own dot com!!! Wahoo for dot com's! http://www.lifeaskaciknowsit.com/
It has made me strive to be better in all aspects of my life: wife, mother, daughter, friend, blogger, cook, career woman, and volunteer. It is a constant self refelction.
What I did not expect was to have this blog be a vehicle for realizing my dreams and true passions. That part is especially exciting to me because for the past several years I have been tormented with the fact that I don't know what I am supposed to be when I grow up.
For everyone that reads this silly little blog of mine, THANK YOU! I can't believe I actually stuck with something for a whole year! I don't usually stick to a hobby long enough for it to evolve in to a lifestyle change.
It means so much to me when I hear that you saw something on my blog that you liked or that I made you feel good about yourself, or that you realized a dream of yours, too!
The inspiration for me starting my blog has been The Pioneer Woman and since I love her so much, and I love YOU so much for sticking with me for a year, I am giving away her latest, greatest, and oh so fabulous cook book!!! "The Pionner Woman Cooks: Food From My Frontier.
This cookbook along with her first has made me go from a wife that would burn water to a wife that my husband now sings my praises everytime I cook him a meal. Yeah, it's THAT monumental!
So what do you have to do to win???????
I'm going to make this SUPER easy since other giveaways of mine seem to confuse and scare people away. I'm going to try this Rafflecopter thing on for size. Let me know what you think!
Good Luck!!!!
a Rafflecopter giveaway
*** This giveaway is sponsored by Life As Kaci Knows It****
