!!! Happy Birthday !!!
Three years ago today (February 5th, 2007) Unplug Your Kids was “born.”
Unplug Your Kids was originally supposed to be a shopping blog. My very first blog post ever was about the Skwish
toy that all my babies have dearly loved.
Soon I also got into book reviews. Then I started talking about family life without TV. Next came crafts and other TV-free activities. Now I feel myself slipping into a new phase, although I am not exactly sure what that will be yet.
Like life itself, Unplug Your Kids has changed, hopefully for the better. I have changed also, again, hopefully for the better.
- In three years I have written 632 posts and received 4,136 comments.
- I have deleted 31,337 spam comments. (Thank you Akismet, I love you!)
- My teeny little counter at the bottom of my home page currently registers 331,690 visitors.
- My most popular day was Tuesday, October 21, 2008 with 4,166 visitors (crashed the server!).
- The most readers ever on line simultaneously were 248 on October 20, 2008 (nope, my web host was NOT happy with me in October 2008).
- My most popular post: Easy Homemade Musical Instruments with 24,246 views.
- My most commented post (that was not a giveaway or a TV Turnoff Challenge): Blog Fears with 41 lovely, supportive comments!
- For anyone who knows or cares about such things, Unplug Your Kids is a currently a Google page rank 4.
Astonishing!
Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who reads Unplug Your Kids and please join me for some virtual cake and ice cream!
Oh my, does that title sound totally self-absorbed, or what?? How embarrassing!
The thing is though, I get a surprising number of questions about Unplug Your Kids, so I decided that it might be a good idea to rewrite my two year-old brief and simple “About” page.
The result is an “Interview With Myself” page which (hopefully) answers some of the most frequent questions I receive.
Here is the link, if anyone is interested.
If you are not interested, that’s OK!
Welcome to Unplug Your Kids at its new home. I hope you like it and, most of all, I hope it loads faster!
There are a few differences from the old blog. I have combined the toy and book recommendations in with the main blog. I plan on trying to recommend one toy and one book per week. You can access my recommendations in the categories menu (“toy recommendations”and “book recommendations” – with subcategories under each heading).
One neat feature of Wordpress, is that it allows for the creation of “Pages.” The top right sidebar shows the links to the pages I have created, including the Unplugged Toystores, Unplugged Bookstores, and a page about the weekly Unplugged Project for anyone who wants to know more about that.
Between having company all week and trying to get this set up, I haven’t had a lot of time to work out every detail. The internal links do not function properly yet, and there is something weird going on with the size of the categories drop-down menu, as well as some other details that need attending to.
As a die-hard perfectionist, I hate to put the blog online with any untidiness or disorganization, so I apologize. However, knowing me, I felt that if I didn’t make myself put it online now, it might be years before it was “perfect enough” in my mind.
I am eager to get on with the business of blogging …
So here it is!
PS. I plan on being around more now that the bulk of the work is done.
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