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Today we celebrate 3 years here at R is for Ronnebeck!

Can you believe I've been blogging for 3 years?

When I look back at my first post it kind of makes me giggle - and again at Two Years... - what a newb!

I think about all the hot and cold I've had with blogging and some days it makes me want to throw in the white towel of surrender, other days I read posts from last year of the little things in life that made me smile that day and it makes me smile that I've recorded it in some way.

 My Mom kept a journal every day from about 1983 till 2009. She started by just documenting the weather, or who she visited with that week, and when we picked up the journals after she passed, it was like seeing the years pass through her eyes. I tried a diary only 300 times over my lifetime, but this is the only "Journal" I've been able to keep up with.

Who knows where this year will take us... and the year after that, and the year after that, but I take some comfort in the familiarity that I can come here and see it after it's passed. That I can look back at all the mountains I have climbed and the valleys I have found my way through. Thank you, for being beside me in that journey.

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