Another Turn With The Sun
Today is the two year anniversary of Married In Ohio. 740 posts and over 4100 comments ago we made our debut on BlogSpot with Who Am I And Why Am I Here. Two years is a long time in blogland. A lot of blogs have come and gone since that gray February day. Then as now, California Girl and I wanted to share the life and times of a happily married couple in Ohio with the blogging world. It’s more than a tagline or our blog. It’s who we are.
It seemed very fitting that today, on our 2nd blogoversary, California Girl received an email form a woman who said how our blog made her feel more optimistic about life. Although she may have felt that our blog was inspirational in some small way, it’s really the other way around; people like her are who inspire us. The comments and emails that we have received have made blogging a very interactive experience for us. We had no idea where blogging might lead when we first got started. Since then we have learned that, much like life, blogging is a journey and not a destination.
Married In Ohio surpassed 800,000 visitors earlier today. Some have come from search engines but most of those have come from being listed on other blogger’s blogrolls. Most of the growth since the early days had been due to the collaborative nature of blogging. We’ve experienced first hand how connected the world had become. Thanks for keeping us company over the past twenty-four months. We plan to continue to share our life together with everyone for another turn with the sun.
February 12th, 2007 at 11:20 pm
Congratulations and Happy Anniversary
February 13th, 2007 at 5:42 am
Congrats on your second bloggerversary. Your blog was the inspiration for us starting one. Until coming across yours we hadnt seen another blog by a couple who were happy together, but there were plenty by people who were unhappy in their marriages. It is easy to get married but staying happily married takes some work and your blog is a wonderful example of a happy marriage.
Ms SD
February 13th, 2007 at 6:45 am
“Married In Ohio surpassed 800,000 visitors earlier today”
See, if you would have charged 5 cents a visit, you’d have been a rich man today, dude!
Congrats on your 2nd anniversary. I’m sure that your wife had something to do with it too! As we see, not a lot of blogs last that long but you guys seem to be still going strong.
February 13th, 2007 at 8:00 am
It is most def a two way street.
Thanks, you two, for everything.
February 13th, 2007 at 8:22 am
You two are very special and have done something quite special. Happy Blogaversary to the 2-year-old. It just goes to show that some things do get better and do last.
February 13th, 2007 at 11:04 am
Congrats on the 2 year mark. It takes a lot of time from your life to do that I know. My inrtoduction to your site came from a google srearch for “Diaphragm” in the photo area. So glad to have found it and keep up the good work. We are suposed to have a “Freezing rain ” senario for today. I will take snow over it any day.
February 13th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
Yep, congrats from me, as well. While my blog is from a different genre, I still link to you, and visit almost daily, because I enjoy the way you present your whole life, and your positive outlook.
Thanks again for a great blog!
February 13th, 2007 at 5:12 pm
Dear MCB and CG,
Congratulations on your big anniversary. Not blowing smoke sincerely I think your Blog is the best of its kind in Blog land. Since you had the post about the girl who died at New Years “Party in a Ponytail” I think her blog was called I have read many of the blogs I had not read before that date. And again I come back to there is something just so sincere about your love that keeps me coming back. I don’t always comment but I love to read. I always liked that you said most people who know you in your real life see you as very conservative people and Va La the real you that we see here in blog land is something else. You show that love lasting longer than 20 years can still be as passionate, let me correct that, is so much more passionate than Younger Love.
What I respect about you more than anything though is your ability to keep your passion and love alive while raising two very active teenagers. My experience has been in observing other people that after children come along not that love dies but the passion just fades away because parents become parents and cease to be passionate lovers and you have managed to really have it all and be it all and that is truly being successful and so wonderful to see and I truly thank you for letting us have a glimpse inside your private life.
As always i wish you all the very best and every happiness. Tell me though did you get any of that snow everyone is talking about. I am not sure what part of Ohio you are in so i just wondered. I am hearing about snow days all over up North!!!! Of course, all the better to stay in and be cozy when it is cold and snowy.
I remain Your Interested Reader
February 13th, 2007 at 5:33 pm
Congrats, your blog is always one of the first we visit when we are surfing. Thanks a bunch, keep up the good work.
February 13th, 2007 at 10:23 pm
Happy anniversary! I lurked for months before i ever commented. A year ago this month I was depressed, in tears everyday, felt like I was all alone and wondering what had happened to my marriage. I would come here to feel love. Not that i was being loved, but I could feel there was love here. It made me feel good, it helped me through all those grey days in those months.
I’m happy to say my marriage is back on track, far from where it was last Valentines Day, still improving and we are once again growing together.
I come here for inspiration, to know that I am not crazy, that there are others who still have a loving marriage in this busy world. I thank you for that. For sharing your love of each other with all of us. For being something solid I could hold onto and work toward.
February 14th, 2007 at 1:21 am
Michele: Thank you. It’s been a wonderful two years.
Ms SD: We didn’t see very many blogs by people who were happily married either. That’s one of the reasons that we decided to start are own. It’s hard to stay married. It takes a lot of work; and you have to be willing to compromise.
Rob: I wish. We’ have spent some of our hard earned money keeping Married In Ohio running, but it has been well worth in given what we have gotten out of blogging. I know that a lot of new blogs get stared every day but I wonder ho many go off line or die for lack of new posts.
Kalani: I love the interaction. And let me say it again; it’s so good to have you back amongst us.
Rosie: Thank you. This blog is a part of US now. It’s become one more or our traditions.
Wendy: It does take time but we really enjoy the interaction. And we learned long ago that you have to fertilize things if you want to reap the reward. We are right there with you. Today we had snow, then sleet and freezing rain, and now it’s snowing again. I was out earlier in the day and the roads were terrible.
DisappearingJohn: We are definitely our own genre. But it about us and that’s the way that we like it. I know that some people think that we talk about our family life too much and others think that we don’t talk about them enough. We think our blog should be representative of our whole life and not just a portion. The balance may change as “blogable” events occur but that’s what we always strive to do.
Interested Reader: We both have seen a lot of what you are taking about where a couple transforms exclusively into mom and dad and forget how to be husband and wife. That’s something that we both work very hard to avoid. Being husband and wife is a (good) habit; you really have to focus on not ling your adult (non-parental) identity when kids come along. We try to post about everything her. Not just the kids and not just sex. We don’t want one to dominate the other either in posts or in real life. God women (or men) are hard to find. It’s a lot easier do what it takes to keep the one that you have which you should want to do anyway) than to wake up one day and realize that you don’t know each other any more and its time to go looking for someone new.
BTW: We got a LOT of snow. School was cancelled today and may be cancelled tomorrow as too.
HIM: Thanks. It’s been a fun two years. We hope to keep doing this for many more.
Kitty: sharing our positive experiences is one of the main reasons that we bog. There are a lot of blogs out there that focus on the bad aspects of the blogger’s primary relationship. We wanted to focus on the good. We don’t claim to have all the answers but sometimes, love (and a willingness to work hard at making things better) is enough.
February 18th, 2007 at 11:14 pm
Wow, I can’t believe that it’s been two years! I’m glad that you guys are still here
February 19th, 2007 at 1:25 am
Chickie: We can’t believe its been two years. I’m glad that you are still her two. A lot of blogs that I liked to read have come and gone since we stared.