Blog Milestones!!

I'm not really sure how this happened but I just realized that my blog has reached some big milestones over the last few weeks. I think with just trying to get through Christmas and New Years I over looked what was going on with my blog. I would now like to share with you the milestones that my blog has now reached!

Milestone Number 1: This post will be my 108th! WOW, I can't believe that I have really posted this many times. I checked a few weeks ago and knew I was getting close to my 100th post but didn't realize I had missed it until I looked this morning. Again, with Christmas I think I just had to much other stuff on my mind to pay attention to this little detail. My actual 100th post was on Christmas Day. When I posted Christmas night I didn't even realize that it was big number 100. Well you know what they say..."Time fly's when you're having fun" (yea~sure...I've had lots of fun the last 4 1/2 months) No, that is not entirely true I have had many wonderful and fun moments the last 4 1/2 months, they haven't all been bad, sad and miserable.

When I started this blog in June I had no idea what my blog would come to mean to me. I originally thought it would just be a fun way to keep in touch with family and friends who I didn't get to see very often. I never in my dreams would have thought that my blog would end up being such a way of healing and form of therapy for me when unknowingly to me my life was to change in such a drastic way. It still amazes me to think of everything that has changed in my life since my very first post. Looking at today's post of number 108, very little in my life is the same.

Milestone Number 2: As of this morning and this is totally shocking to me... I now have 104 followers who read my blog!!! AMAZING!! When I started this blog I would get excited when 2 people would leave me a comment. The thought never even entered my mind that I would actually have "followers" one day. Now almost 8 months after starting my blog I have 104 people who read my blog on a daily basis and leave wonderful comments for me. This totally blows my mind!! The people (all of you) that read my blog have left me the most wonderful and touching comments since Shawn has died and since losing the baby. Each comment has left and impression with me and has helped me through my grief. I'm very humbled to have this many people take interest in my life and want to read about what I'm going through and to walk my journey with me as I'm trying to figure out the life of "New Jenny". There are many people who read my blog that I have gotten to "know" a bit better during the last few months, some of these people I even communicate with on a regular basis through email. It again amazes me how friendships can be formed through blogging.

When I started blogging I never thought that my blog would reach so many people. Nor did I EVER dream that my blog would be used to "touch" so many people and help them in their daily life as well. For that I'm grateful. I'm grateful that through my pain I am able to help other people. For those who have been reading for a while know that is what I do...I help people. Every day I get emails from people who tell me that after reading my blog, they have changed their relationship with their husbands. (I will get back to each and every one of you, it just takes time as I'm emailing you each back personally) I mean I get at least 3 to 4 emails/comments a day from people telling me that by reading my story they no longer take their relationship with their husband for granted. If there is one thing that I have learned since the death of Shawn and with losing the baby it is not to take life for granted...you never know when the life you are living could be ripped out of your arms. I'm so grateful that the people reading my blog now take the time to tell their husband they love them every night and morning. I'm grateful that the people reading my blog take the time to talk to their husbands, take the time to smell their skin, and to cherish the touch of their husband's skin. If I could get one thing back it would be to have the touch of Shawn back...even just for a minute...to feel his hands and lips on my skin. I'm glad that people have taken the time to love their husband more after reading my blog. It really does make me feel better, knowing that each of you are able to love your husbands.

Milestone Number 3: I started my blog on June 16th. So I'm quickly approaching my 7 month blogging anniversary. I thought I would like to blog, but didn't realize that I would quickly come to LOVE it!! I love posting and I love to read the blogs of others. I'm going to be sad when I have to return to the "real world" and have to go back to work. I won't be able to blog during the day...GASP!!! Well, I guess instead I will blog at night. Blogging is addicting and I love it. So here is to another great 7 months of blogging and many many more posts to come!!

I want to thank each and every one of you who read my blog! I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to read my blog, I want to thank you for leaving me such wonderful and meaningful comments to me. More than anything I want to thank you for being there for me during the worst 4 1/2 months of my life. Many of you could have turned away because of all the "drama" that my life has went through. I don't know, maybe the drama is what drew some of you in. Either way I want to thank you for sharing my life with me. I really have gotten a lot of support from the blogging world. I would also like to thank you all for continuing to read my blog as I approach on the next chapter of my life as I try to find the person that New Jenny is going to become. Thank you to each and every one of you!!!

Here is to many more blog milestones!!