Fourth Year Blog Anniversary

This pic was my header when I started my blog November of 2009.
 I have been looking for it for days and have lost it on our computers somehow. I found this paper copy finally. This arrangement was done by one of my garden club friends. I have enjoyed looking back on my blog and remembering posts. Blogging is like journaling your life and it is funny how you have to look back on the pictures to jog your memory.

Blogging has been such a rewarding experience. I enjoy the friendships I have made and would love to meet all of you personally. Thank you for your encouragement, inspiration and helpfulness. Do you recognize I was reading Pat's blog, Back Porch Musings?

Since it is nearing Thanksgiving and I am reflecting on beginning my blog I had to giggle looking back at the first blog post I did. It was so short but I felt like I had done a term paper! Did you feel that way too? Read that post here. I was so excited to receive four comments! Do you also remember that feeling  that there were really people out there reading your little blog?

This is my first tablescape in 2009. It was just out there in the blogsphere because I did not know about blog parties and how to meet blogger friends. I soon caught on.

Tablescaping has been an enjoyable part of blogging for me. This pic was from last years Thanksgiving. As you can see I used the same vintage plates as my very first tablescape on my blog. I added a rattan charger instead of a placemat, different flatware, added a table runner and changed the centerpiece. View last year's Thanksgiving here.

I have blogged about gardening, birds, food, travel, family outings, home tours, antiques and my garden club. Hope you will join me for many more posts.

 Monica@Texas Fiesta Ware Fan won my anniversary giveaway  a few years back. I hope she won't mind but I would like to tell you her husband has recently had a bone marrow transplant. I don't know details but I know this is a hard and long hospital stay. I know you would want to pray for her and her husband and maybe encourage her. If you want an address to send a card you can email me. You can read the blog  post I wrote about that blog anniversary here.

Now, as we near Thanksgiving and I reflect on starting my blog I want to say how much I want to live my life  every day with Thanksgiving. I am very thankful to all of you who have supported me. Your comments do encourage me and are greatly appreciated. I also appreciate every follower and invite you to become a follower if you are not already. Have a Happy Thanksgiving.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart! Bonnie@livingwiththanksgiving

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