Happy birthday to you/happy birthday to you/happy birthday dear BLOG/happy birthday to you!
My blog baby – there’s no place like gnome at gnomepreacher.blogspot.com – turns two today! Two! Put on your 3D glasses and party hats and you could come celebrate with this dork on the left!
[I forgot to remember to celebrate her birthday last year. what a bad blog host am I.]
Two years ago to this day was the summer night that I arrived in Dawson for my year-long internship. [Here is the first ever post on gnomepreacher.] The intern committee had helped me move into my apartment and taken me out for dinner. I returned to my home-to-be for that year – oh, parkview apartments – and [dramatic pause] began to blog. Gnomepreacher was born out of dreams to communicate with family and friends in Wisconsin while I lived on the prairie for a year, but she’s grown into a lot more.
Since then, the blog has been with me through thick and thin. It has shared with you joys and sorrows, losses and gains; many corny videos and even more gnome stories. A trip to Alaska, friendly tales of polar plunges, and transitions aplenty. Cakepops, macarons, and hamballs. The blog – through story and the infinite interweb – has connected me to people in strange and really wonderful ways.
Blogging is never a chore for me. It’s not unusual that when I’m away from my computer, I’ll write posts in my head, some of which are published, others of which are not. I feel grounded in my writing and in the sharing. If there is a day or – gasp! – three when I don’t blog, it feels like something is missing. I love doing this.
Once more, I thank you for reading. Even when I forget to say thank you, know that I’m grateful that you share in this with me. You share in and take interest in the stories I live and write. If I were not in the middle of moving and packing, I might have yelled cakepops for all! But I am moving and packing [or at least am supposed to be]… so not really. Cakepop false alarm.
Happy birthday, blog. To many more.
there's no place like gnome. 
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