On This Day...

 

                The other day I was completely caught up in my “on this day” memories on Facebook. I smiled and giggled, looking back at the things that filled my day and my feed over the years. It reminded me that it’s been a few years since I did a similar practice here on the blog. Like I said a couple of days ago, next year marks twenty years of blogging, and I thought it would be fun to look back and see what was happening on this very day over the years. Want to take a peek with me?

2006 – This was the year I started blogging, but I didn’t actually begin until the fall, so I don’t have a post from this day from 2006.

2007 – In the first few years of blogging, I didn’t post every single day. So even though I blogged all year in 2007, I didn’t post anything on this day.

2008 – Sadly…no post on this day this year, either!

2009 – Same for this year.

2010 – This is the first year I ever wrote a post on March 14^th. I was in the middle of being wildly in love, though I hadn’t told the blogging world that just yet. I was also in the middle of my silent Lenten season, when I prayed so much while driving. And it was the first day of the time change. (I hated it back then, too.) Oh sweet 2010 Bekah. You have no idea the heartbreak about to smack you in the face, and you have no idea how much you’ll need these sweet days of prayer piled up to carry you through!

2011 – This post made me smile. I had emerged from the other side of heartbreak and had begun to live – truly live – again. I had also just returned home from my first ever trip to Florida. I had no idea that in a year and a half, I’d be back in Florida…as a bride! In 2010, though, I flew down with friends to enjoy a week of early spring break, and I truly had the best time. In this post, I recapped how the trip came to be and loved seeing all over again how much fun it was to remember the planning of the trip!

2012 – This post reveals some snarky sarcasm about my continued dislike of the time change. I really used to give this a lot of real estate on the blog. I still don’t like it, obviously, but I try not to devote entire posts to it anymore. I think I finally figured out my opinion really doesn’t matter! (Ha!)

2013 – How appropriate that on my first year as a married blogger, this date was a recap day from our at-home reception. Prior to the reception beginning, we did a little photo shoot in the prayer chapel where I spent so many hours praying for my husband – long before I knew his identity. I discovered that some of the photos from that day happened to match photos from our wedding day! I do love a good recreation, so even though none of these were on purpose, they were still fun to see again.

2014 – I love the memories that get trapped in little blog posts, and this year is a perfect example of that. A story from one of the days I tried my hand at hosting Mid-Morning on my own…and we had technical difficulties. My palms started sweating just reading this story over again!

2015 – This year was a Saturday Six roundup day, and I had fun sifting through the links I shared then. My favorite one from this list was The Nester’s post about her parents’ home. I love all the words she wrote, and it also makes me miss when her blog was more personal like this post reflects. (I miss that about a lot of blogs.)

2016 – I was in the thick of revealing to the blog world that Ryan and I were selling our Marion home and choosing our first home together – in Kokomo. And in fact, this was the very day we closed on that Kokomo house! But I took a break from moving news to share an important story. I love this post because I love the miracle God gave Ryan and the faith-boost He gave me as I prayed for the miracle. I’m so glad I wrote about it.

2017 – One full year after closing on our Kokomo home, I wrote about the joy of living in that house for a year and all we had done there in that time. In terms of a house layout, that home remains our favorite we’ve ever lived in. Nothing compares to our present view, and we do love our cute little lake cottage, but if we had to declare a favorite house layout, Kokomo wins!

2018 – I had so much fun celebrating that house closing that I celebrated it again in 2018 – sharing a few more details of the story this time!

2019 – On this day, we were fresh in the grief of Ryan’s mom’s death, which had happened less than ten days before. We had plodded through the grief itself and then hurts compounded from other events that took place right around the same time. We weren’t sure we could ever breathe again, and I had nothing to say. But when you’ve made a habit of blogging every single day, you have to put some kind of word to screen. It was a whole lot of nothing in a post, but I showed up.

2020 – Another Saturday Six post, and this one fell right at the start of quarantine. None of us had any idea how long it would last, so I find my final item adorable. “If your church isn’t meeting for the next few weeks.” Or months, Bekah. Also, I’m so sad Lindsay Letters retired the art piece I linked to in this post. It is STILL one of my favorites. I’m so glad I bought it. And we still use Selah Essential Oils!

2021 – So much changed in a year! By this day, we had sold our beloved home in Kokomo, moved to WillowBridge, lived through a year of a pandemic, and said goodbye to Ryan’s stepdad as well. Whew. So much. I shared some Lenten devotional thoughts in this Sunday post, and I needed to reread them today!

2022 – So much changed in a year! By this day, we had turned in our resignation to WillowBridge and were about to close on the house we found in Bluffton. We had been through unimaginable growth AND pain, and we were excited to see what God had next for us. (And we had become puppy parents!) On this day I wrote about my gratitude for my parents’ decision to dedicate me to the Lord when I was a baby – and my joy at getting to support friends in their child dedications!

2023 – This day found me sappy and sentimental as I reminisced about baby Lexi and her growth over the year+ that we’d had her. If you want cute baby Lexi pictures, check it out. But it wasn’t just about cute puppy pics. The day also held notes of lessons God taught me through my sweet puppy girl!

2024 – How fun to end this round up with a Day in the Life post! This was my life a year ago today, and SO MUCH has changed. Ryan and I both have different jobs. Our sweet Braeya Jo is no longer with us. Wow. It’s so strange to see what life was like and how much it has changed in one year’s time!

                SO MUCH CHANGE on this day over the years. God has taken us on many literal and figurative journeys. This is exactly why I love traditional blogging. I love remembering the things that mattered to me over the years, the places we lived, the jobs we had, and the faithfulness of our good God!