The Precious Part of Blogging

Today I’m linking up with my clever friend, Sian, for her monthly “Storytelling Sunday” {although I'm just a little late to the party}. Sian’s been hosting Storytelling Sunday for over three years now, and this year she has set the theme of telling tales about something that is precious to us.

As I thought about a story to share this month, I just couldn’t help coming back around to the friendships that blogging has brought into my life and how special {precious} those relationships have become to me. Sian recently hosted a “Great Big Swap of Very Small Things” and since that’s on my list of things to blog about as well, I thought I’d combine the two in this post today.

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On a recent trip to California to visit my family, my brother-in-law, Brad asked me questions about blogging. “So, how do other people come to your blog? And what do you write about? And how do you get to know other people?” It was fun to explain the process to him, to tell him about randomly landing on an inspirational blog and leaving a comment, and having that blogger come back and leave a comment on my blog, and how friendships are built on commonalities such as scrapbooking, gardening, photography, family... I’m often amazed myself at how these friendships have come to be, and how in many ways I think that blog friends know each other better than a lot of people they come in contact with in person on any given day.

So when I received a package from Lisa-Jane as part of Sian’s swap this past week, I was struck by how well she knows me, even though we’ve never had the good fortune to meet face to face.

Lisa-Jane was so thoughtful with her selection for me, and I love how she labeled each individually wrapped package noting her reasons for thinking of me ~ my garden, Project Life, strawberries for my mom, Union Jack paper for scrapping my recent trip to England, and a cute turtle hand drawn by her son because she didn’t have any turtles in her own stash. It was perfect. In fact, it was precious. 

So this month, for Storytelling Sunday, I’d like to acknowledge and thank Sian for organizing the swap, and also Lisa-Jane for the lovely {and oh-so-generous} package of goodies she gifted to me.

I’m in awe of the magic and wonder of blogging, and the amazing people it has brought into my life.

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You can read more stories over at Sian's blog...  :o)