Top Ten Reasons To Love My New Blog Design

10. It was designed by my dear hubby, who is a talented designer and techno whiz, and eternally patient with my multiple requests to “change this” and “tweak that.”

9. I have a LOGO. And it’s pretty! And it’s PINK. And my four guys are represented by precious little blue birds–I love birds! And the curves look like splashes that go with my tag line. It could not possibly be more perfect!

8. I have a tag line! A few weeks ago, my friend Alicia taught an amazing class on blogging and social networking. She mentioned how most successful bloggers use a tag line to define themselves. I immediately started brainstorming. It wasn’t easy because I write about so many different things. But I realized a common thread pops up in my work, and that is the fact that I’m the only girl in a house full of boys. It finally came to me: A splash of pink in a house of blue. Yep, that’s me!

7. I can add all those cool widgets and other things I saw on other people’s blogs but couldn’t put on my former design. Now I just have to learn HOW. (See #10–what a blessing to have married into the Geek Squad.)

6. My logo, with a few little modifications, will make a pretty nifty widget of its own. Which I will be begging you to add to your blog sometime in the near future.

5. Chocolate brown is one of the yummiest colors out there. It will subliminally lead my readers to seek out the soothing goodness of chocolate therapy. Most of my readers are moms, and all moms need a little chocolate.

4. I have a tag cloud! Yay! I’ve always loved that feature on other blogs. Downside? I have to go through 90-something pages of archives to get them all tagged properly. I should be finished by the time I’m 60.

3. Those little date boxes beside each post are just about the cutest things I’ve ever seen. Besides my kids, of course.

2. I think that having everything sectioned out makes it easier to read.

And the number one reason to love my new blog design?

1. I rarely get to surround myself with girly frou-frou things, so every time I log on, I smile!

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I just hung up with my little sister Cherie, and I swear we laughed more than we talked. Maybe it was sharing a room when we were growing up, but we share an odd sense of humor that has gotten us both through some rough times in life. I sent her a Flair button on Facebook the other day that said, “I hope you know that oftentimes, you and I are the only ones who think each other’s funny.” That is definitely true of our relationship. We can be falling over, laughing so hard we can’t breathe, and those around us have no idea what the joke is all about. My dad used to always say, “All you two do is giggle!” It’s still true today, and I hope it’s still true when we’re in our 80′s, giving the nursing home staff a hard time.

(We three girls with our lovely Mom!)

My sister Ninnah is the oldest of the three of us, and has always been more serious. The poor thing was always the “straight man” to my and Cherie’s comedic tricks. But she’s mellowed out so much as we’ve grown older, and when the three of us get together–look out! You can find us by the laughter. Ninnah is the ultimate girly-girl, the sister to go to for decorating or fashion advice, the one I’m most likely to go get a pedicure with. When she lets loose, it’s twice as funny as when anyone else does it, because she works so hard to project an image of elegance and sophistication.

I truly cherish every minute we three sisters get to spend together. With our crazy schedules at this phase of life, it’s hard to make that happen more than a few times a year. So when it does happen, that time is golden. I try not to let anything interfere with it, and I’m thankful for a loving husband who understands and respects the time I need to just be with my girls.

Thank you, God, for my precious, wonderful sisters.

“Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves.  A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.” ~Ecclesiastes 4:12

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