I had it all planned out.

My first ever post on this blog was about taking the boys swimming. So, I thought, I'll mark my first anniversary of blogging with a post on taking the boys swimming. I even took photos at the pool on Friday (and was spoken to by the lifeguard re making sure I didn't have any other children in my photos. Yeah, like I want anonymous brats in photos of my darlings.).

And in my great plan, I thought I could reflect on the highlights of my year of blogging ...

... but when I thought about it, I realised that my life and therefore my blog are quite tame. (Which is fine by me!)

Yes, I had an iron transfusion, a scary birthday and got through Climber's first year of school and love affair. I recorded for posterity the terrible year we had during my pregnancy with Cherub. But in terms of my plan, man, it just didn't seem to be worthy of a great deal of reflection.

Because this blog, it's just my family, in writing, so that my useless long-term memory will have a better chance of remembering this delicious time of my life.

Nontheless, I still think I ought to take time to state that I am so glad I started doing this. I love that I've taken lots of photos and written down the funny stories, I love that I've found all these other blogs to visit (do you see the length of my sidebar??) and actually met some of my fellow bloggers. I love that I am writing again, split infinitives, lax grammar and all. And this year of blogging, seriously; is that all it's been? I feel like like I've been blogging forever, like I'm such an old hand at this now. Weighing it all up, it seems valid to do an anniversary post, to commemorate a year of doing something that I enjoy so much, and will be, I hope, a treasured record to Fixit, the boys and me in the years to come.

BUT....

It turns out that, true to form, I actually MISSED the anniversary of starting this blog. July 17th 2006 was my first ever post, not July 29th. Like my 100th post, it came and went and I found out later. What can I say? I'm not great with dates.


But what the hell. Won't you wish me a belated happy blog anniversary? And if you've ever lurked here and never said hello, then surely a belated first blog-versary is the time to introduce yourself.