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Several months ago, I decided that I wanted to make the photos on our blog bigger. I just personally like how larger photos look and feel like it makes viewing blogs easier. So I changed a few of the most recent posts and then got the opinion of my good friend who I completely trust (hi Lorri!). When she agreed with me, I was happy as can be, but immediately had a new problem on my hands.
You see, my personality wouldn't allow me just to starting using the larger size photos from that moment on. I had to go back through the past five years (approximately 1200 posts) and fix each one. So I did. Each day, when I had some time, for months. And last night, I finished the very first post on our blog.
And not only are all of our blog photos now a bigger size (I hope), but a majority of the posts required the fixing of font spacing, as well as changing the links on any post, so that the link would open in a new window. And in going through each month, I also adjusted the dates on several posts because if there is more than one post assigned to a certain day, the template I chose makes those look funny and my heart couldn't handle it.
So there you go.
Now if you think this post is just about showing all of you fine people one more example of my craziness, you would be wrong. (Although if that is what you get from it, good enough. I'm okay with that.) But the real reason I mention all of this is just to say if you are on our blog and notice I've missed fixing the photos or font or dates or links on any of the posts, I sure would appreciate knowing.
No, I'm not under the illusion that all of you spend large amounts of time reading past posts or clicking on links that take you to previous posts, but if you happen to find yourself somewhere and see something looking not like you think it should, please just leave me a comment or send along an email. I truly would be grateful to know. I've caught mistakes more times than I can count now (some places where I just skipped over several posts somehow), so I know they are there. But I've done the best I can and will now just let things be unless I come across them or you lovely people come across them and let me know.
Thanks a lot in advance.
And I have to say, as painful as it sometimes felt, I really loved going over the whole blog five years later. Because there were so many posts I had forgotten about that made me laugh and cringe and even get a little teary at times. I'm trying so hard to truly "find joy" in this journey of ours. And when I look back and see a record of our life, I realize I haven't done that perfectly, but it has honestly been such an incredible journey.
I'm so grateful. I'm so blessed.
And sweet chicken, I'm so glad to be done changing the size of blog photos.
