This Day In History

Time flies by so fast which is one of the reasons I love blogging. It records all those things, the little things, the big things, that you would otherwise forget. I've been blogging since August 2005. I started for a variety of reasons. As a way to try and keep in touch with my friends and family back home in the UK whilst I was living in Nova Scotia, Canada. For therapeutic reasons, enabling me to 'get things of my chest', to be able unload some of the stuff I was working through (the homesickness, the struggle of living in a different country, missing proper bacon!). At a basic level as a diary, a record of the little things the children said, a record of our day to day.

So what does this day, month, season look like over the past 4 years? What was I doing on, or around, 18th November?

• November 2005 - Stumbled at the first hurdle here as there are NO entries at all for the month of November 2005. I couldn't understand why? I was at the top of my blogging high and enthusiasm - hey I'd only been blogging 3 months! But once I looked at the first entry of December I realised why - we moved countries in November! Aha! Now I understand why I may have been a little too busy to blog. So November 2005 saw our leaving Nova Scotia and returning to England.


• November 2006 - No actual blog entry for the 18th but one for the 23rd. It's funny to read this one as I am still struggling with some of the same thoughts and ideas, scrapbooking related, now as I was then. I always seem to put myself under so much pressure to create 'the' layout rather than just letting go, relaxing and just having fun. Although I seem to be making some headway in this department as I did actually scrapbook recently and didn't procrastinate. I just did it.


• November 2007 - LOL, I have no idea whether I blogged in the month of November, or even in December or January (2008) for that matter as this is around the time I got my first iMac and I made the, in hindsight, bad decision to move my, then Typepad, blog to iWeb (an iMac application). I talked about my move to iWeb here and then just a few months later about my return to Typepad here. It's interesting to see that I'd been wanting to move away from Typepad for longer than I realised. Incidentally iWeb obviously didn't work for me as I only made 2 blog entries over 3 months and they were so boring that I didn't even bother to import them back into Typepad!


• November 2008 - Again nothing for the 18th but a blog entry on the 19th and interestingly it's about another blog move this time from Typepad to a self-hosted Wordpress. Which means that tomorrow is my 1 year Wordpress blog anniversary!

I'm generally not one for looking back, preferring to look forwards to the future, but it is interesting to see how far you've come or how your life has changed over a set period of time. In the process of looking back on some of my earlier posts it was funny to find references to my eldest daughter as a 9 year old - she is now 13 - and to just take a moment to see how she has grown and changed and matured.

So what about you? What were you doing this time last year? Or the year before? Or even the year before that?