Where does the time ago? This week marks the 8th anniversary of my Dinner at Sheila’s Blog.
There were times over these past years where I considered giving it up…for instance, in 2013 when we moved from Maryland to California, and it was 4 months till we were in our home and I had access to my computer.
I could no longer take photos with my digital camera and download them! And there was the small matter that for the first month I was kitchenless, cause we were staying in a hotel.
For the next 3 months we were living in 2 different rentals because I was desperate to have a kitchen again!
When our house was still not ready we needed to find another place to live for what turned out to be another 6 weeks!
So with some determination, and the use of my phone camera, (I never did go back to the digital camera), I was able to continue my blog, but only because of help from my son in LA.
Here’s how it would go…I would email him the text and photos of what I was blogging and he would post it via his computer.
He’s also been the reason this blog hasn’t bit the dust many times over the years due to my frustration , craziness, tearing my hair out over some technical glitch.
He always comes through for me, and is only a phone call or text away, no matter the hour, as only he knows so well. (and he still loves me!).
Although I have threatened to give it up at times, I never seriously considered it because I truly have found it rewarding in so many ways.
I appreciate those of you who have been reading and following it, or just referencing it for a recipe more than you know. Many thanks!
Since I’ve been going down memory lane I thought I would include the first entry I wrote in July of 2010..
After much thought and much more prodding from my husband and sons, I am beginning my blog. They assure me there are many out there who will be interested in what I have to offer, so here goes.
The focus will be on what has been my passion for as many years as I can remember…. feeding people. It will cover entertaining ideas, with an emphasis on cooking and baking. I’ll also include ideas for gardening, interior design, and decorating with special attention to the seasons and holidays…all the things that through the years of raising our family have helped to transform our HOUSE, be it a furnished apartment in Tallahassee, Florida, a second floor walk-up in a six flat building in Chicago, a three bedroom house in the Chicago burbs, or our current house in the DC area, (and currently since 2013 our home in downtown San Luis Obispo, California) into a HOME.
I wrote my first entry last January when I intended to begin this blog, but didn’t. For whatever reasons…procrastination, nervousness about being a “blogger”, or lack of confidence in my abilities …I have successfully overcome them and have decided to seize the day! So here goes, and I hope you’ll have as much fun reading it as I think I will writing it.
So in closing this post as I begin my 9th year of Dinner at Sheila’s I just want to say it has been great fun, but I have also learned a lot, and hopefully helped some of you along the way.
Thanks again for reading,
Sheila