It's my Blogoversary!!!

It was nine years ago today that I first posted on an AOL journal.  Does anyone even remember those?  I was able to merge all of the posts over to blogger when AOL journals closed and moved to this blog a little over a year ago from my initial blogger site.  Nine years?  Who would have thought that I'd still be writing about infertility and we'd still be a family of just two?

Here is that very first post.  If I knew then what I know now.... I don't know if it would have been any different.  I think I would have become much more bitter and angry at a younger age for sure!  Even then I had my doubts it was going to work, but there was a glimmer of hope.  And just maybe, just maybe....there is a tiny little glimmer once again, today?

We're taking BIG STEPS with our adoption very soon.  But that's another post all together. 

In celebration of my nine years of rambling blogging, I'd like to do a little give away.  Now, bear with me as I have never done a give away of any sort here on my blog.  I know it's what all the cool kids do, so I'm going to give it a shot.  If you are here for ICLW, you are in luck!

So what am I giving away?  How about a set of handmade notecards?  One lucky commenter will win a personalized set of these from my etsy shoppe 

To enter, just leave a comment on this post.  Tell me what were you doing NINE years ago today- What was going on in your life?   I'll put all the comments in a hat and pull one out.  Be sure that you have a link to your blog or an email that I can contact you should you be the big winner.  Contest closes at the end of the weekend... let's say Sunday night at 9:00 CST.  (Let's just go with the 9 theme, ok?)

Let's hope that 9 years from now I am not still blogging about infertility.  Let's hope I'm focusing on raising our adopted child(ren).  Surely it won't take us another 9 years to realize that dream, right?

Have a wonderful day!