blogoversary, blogaversary, blogiversary.

however you wanna say it, it's been an entire year since i started this babbling of mine. i can't believe it!! i've gained SO many friends that i never even 'planned' on. there have been so many of you who bless me with your comments of sweet words and encouragement and even more so prayer!!

the past year has brought the birth of dustin, a thyroid cancer 'scare', mean comments, a haiti fundraiser and of course yesterday's reveal of my news and oh so much more!! for those of you who've been around since forever...thanks for sticking with me. and for those of you who started some place in the middle or have just jumped on board. thanks! sometimes knowing i'm writing and people are actually reading makes it a little bit more worth it. although like at the beginning when no one really read it, i didn't care either!! :0) i just like to ramble.

the lady who we raised stuff for for the haiti trip recently emailed me some pictures. with her permission i'm sharing them with you today!! I've also included her emails to me::

The Haiti baby granny was mighty glad to be a recipient of some of the diapers. She is fortunate enough to have a mattress, that she and baby sleep on while several other youngsters sleep on floor. Their mom is in Dominican Republic working to send money home to Haiti.Now the baby won';t be peeing through on her mattress---phew!The twins are near and dear to my heart as we saw them while we did hurricane relief work last September. They had almost drowned and we came back to their temporary tent city to give them antibiotic injections each day. Mom was frantically trying to pull them from the water during the flooding, so sever pneumonia. AS you can tell, she tries to use little underwear on them. I am sure when the pee through for the day they go naked. You can tell they are somewhat malnourished. I was glad to see them again and see a success story.

Some more lovely Haitian children----precious in HIS sight and who were the recipients of your generosity.Thanks so much again. I will keep in touch with your blog. If you feel so inclined, please pray for details for me to return to Haiti this summer with my 17 year old daughter. She is interested in Dietician/nutrition and we may be able to work with a feeding program/nutrition for malnourished kids. God needs to make several provisions, which no doubt, HE can do.

it's so fun for me to see those pictures and know that I had a part in helping them out a bit. and like becky said please keep them in prayer about going back to haiti!! ohh how fun!!!

comemmorating my first year of blogging i have a little gifty gift to give you. well one of you. so here it is. it is a yummy smelling *grapefruit fresh* partylite candle. i actually used to see partylite and my friend still does. i L.O.V.E their candles. and that smell and that cute little jar!

so here are the 'rules' to winning.

1. one entry: tell me your favorite moment on my blog for you. recent story, old story, i don't care! i wanna know what made you laugh. or cry. or just smile. :0)

2. another entry: tell me why you read my blog. i'd love to know what keeps you coming back!

3. and yet another entry: follow me!!

please leave three different comments so i can use random.org to pick the winner.

the winner will be announced next tuesday. because i'll be way busy til then. :0)

thanks again guys for such a great year of blogging. i can't wait to keep going!!

and ps. i have a few other cloth diaper giveaways to announce soon as well. we'll see what later today brings or tomorrow it'll be!! :0)