April Fools Anniversary

I started the blog on April 1st last year, so the Norris Family Blog is one year old today. I set the web counter to not include our own visits, so the number of visitors to the blog was 1,140 during the past year. I have written 258 posts to the blog and I'll admit, it's not as easy to try to write an entry every day as I thought it would be when I started the blog. The blog has helped me to remember when certain things happened and should enable me to plan a little better in coming years. An example of this is with the planting, fertilizing, trimming, digging and selling of the mums. I have also made contact with several people through them reading the blog and contacting me by clicking my name under the posts to send me email. One family contacted us about Dr Zhu and their child's medical problem and I have actually made money from the blog. Not much, just $10, sent to me in the form of a coupon for Amazon.com by a group of Carnegie Melon University students. They had read the blog and wanted some questions answered, so I responded to their questions and they sent the coupon in an email. I logged in to my Amazon account and pasted in the numbers and was credited with the money. Family members have also been able to read about what has happened with us during the year. Although, Linda claims we don't get as many phone calls because people read about us on the blog and then don't have to call to find things out. Hmm, I don't know if that's a good thing or not??
Overall, it has been a fairly good experience and I will try to continue posting entries...