Happy Birthday to my blog!

Not to steal any thunder from the holiday (it is the birthday of my country today too!), but my blog is officially a year old now.

I started out with this post about making skirts out of old pants (I republished it later, which is why it has a more recent date stamp now.), and just a handful of readers. Here I am a year later, pushing 200,000 hits, and every day I’m still in awe of the fact that you all come here each day to read my posts.

I think I have some of the best readers around…you all are a kind and encouraging bunch, and I feel very blessed. Thanks for reading, commenting, emailing, trying my recipes, and for participating in Food Waste Friday (also, thank you for putting up with my omni-present parenthenticals!) I’m delighted to have you all here, and it thrills me to hear that my blog has helped inspire some of you to manage your money better.

Writing my blog has actually helped me to manage my money more wisely too! Thanks to the accountability of blogging, I’m now wasting very little food, I’m tracking my grocery spending more carefully, I’m shopping at Goodwill (thanks, Katy!), we’re eating less cereal at breakfast, and I’m even staying almost caught up with my Quicken software. That by itself is a minor miracle!

I have somewhere around a bazillion more ideas for posts, so as long as you guys keep reading, I’ll keep on writing, and hopefully we’ll all end up saving money.