Birth Announcements

I feel like a kid with a new toy--a satisfyingly complicated one that takes time to figure out and challenges my ingenuity. Blogs are supposed to be easy these days, heaven knows there are a gazillion of them, but there are tweaks and twists and furbelows and frills that can keep me occupied for hours (or days). I am a little slow, but I get there (like my tortoise friend here).
I got around to adding a visitor counter a couple of days ago. Before that, the only way I could tell someone had visited was if they left a post, a comment or became a follower.
I was a little shy about announcing the baby’s delivery until I was happy with how it looked, so not many friends knew about it. I’ve now learned how to post, upload photos and even bold and italicize, so have been telling folks about it.
John emailed back that he LOVED it, but couldn’t figure out how to become a follower. So I opened it up and played around and emailed him back my best guess. I asked him to leave a message next time, since no one had done that yet.
He emailed back that he had commented, so I whipped back to the blog, where it took me ten minutes to find the tiny (1) on my very first post, clicked on it and found a message—from someone called Apple who very nicely said I am a good writer and should continue.
My friend’s comment was via email, but I was looking for a comment on the blog site. Had this not happened, I may never have seen Apple’s comment. I love how things work out like that.
Now I see little ( )s all over, some with numbers in them. Turns out folks have been commenting all along, I just didn’t know where to look. Still have to figure out how to get the comments to show up on the blog.
But this is a complex toy that takes time. Goodie, or as the kids say: Bonus.
SLI