Wow.

Oh my goodness. Braydon and I have known for a long time that we have several hundred readers (last check we have about 1,500-2,000 unique visitors per week). That’s not too many people when you consider the millions who are surfing in blogland. But still, seeing as we started this blog thinking that we’d have a handful of readers (our parents mainly!), we do get quite a kick out of this– how strange it is that so many people find some interest in our little life. And we know that our blog is meaningful for lots of people because we pretty regularly receive comments and/or email from people all over telling us how much our blog means to them. But I had absolutely no idea that posting something like the “Ugh.” post below would spark such a reaction (especially since it was posted on a Saturday afternoon– our blog’s slowest traffic day). Within 24 hours we had almost 50 loving supportive heart-felt comments from readers all over the place. With very few exceptions these comments are from people we’ve never met in real life and probably never will. When I posted it I had actually thought that the nasty-anons would start pelting me with their defense. It had never occurred to me that the post would get the reaction it got. Wow. Reading through those comments is humbling and embarrassing and inspiring and rejuvenating all at once. Wow, thank you all. We feel the love. We feel the love. Thanks y’all. And thanks for reading.
~Heather

P.S. I took the photo above this afternoon. I don’t want to get too cheesey on you all… or sound like a bad poet or something… but… I was just struck by this huge gorgeous majestic tree growing up with such strong beautiful branches, and sitting there, right in the middle, is a dead stub of a branch. The symbolism is transparent, don’t you think?