I have a few loose ends to wrap up around here. Things that I forgot to take care of as well as a few blog related issues I want to address. So this will be the boring post for the week (or at least the most boring post of this week).

1. In this post I said I’d LOLinate the picture with the submitted captions from comments.

Dawn submitted this one:

and Cathy submitted this one:

Thanks ladies! You both made my day by playing along.

2. I’m discontinuing my weekly posting of “Why I Love Him Wednesday” (much to my husband’s disappointment). I had hoped that participation would catch on, and that perhaps other bloggers might be inspired to share the positives in their relationships with their significant other but that has not been the case. To those of you who have played along, thank you. I enjoyed reading your posts and appreciate your participation.

The main reason I have chosen to discontinue the weekly post is because I have suspected that there are readers out there that are turned off by posts that “gush” or are “mushy”. My suspicions were confirmed Valentines week as I read posts and comments throughout the blogosphere stating just this fact. Some feel that these types of posts are an unbalanced view of a relationship. My understanding of this point of view is that people do not want to read only the good in a relationship, they want a balanced portrayal and feel that mushy posts about relationships are somehow untruthful unless the blogger also shares details about the bad and the ugly along with the good. I can respect that. I’ve never claimed our relationship was perfect as my husband and I are both far from it. I do not, however, share the details of our fights–I’m from the “if you can’t say anything good about a person then don’t say it all” school of thought (especially when it comes to loved ones) and while I’m usually an open book around here the details of our arguments are something I believe strongly in keeping private.

I also read comments on other blogs stating that “mushy” posts make some readers feel like there is something lacking in their own relationships. That has never been my intention.

I don’t know if any of you readers out there have ever been turned off by the weekly Why I Love Him posts–maybe you have. I do know that I don’t get very many comments on them and the lack of feedback is telling. So, while I write this blog mainly for myself, my husband and my children, I certainly don’t want to turn away readers every single week. So I’ll save those Why I Love Him posts for special occasions when I feel truly inspired and simply can’t help but share.

I just wanted to let everyone, who may be interested, know why I am no longer going to feature a dedicated Why I Love Him post every week and that it’s not just because I have terrible follow through.

3. I am going to do my best to post each Monday or Tuesday something about my weightloss progress, like I did yesterday. I need accountability–I do better with accountability–so that’s what the posts about calorie consumption, exercise and pounds lost are about when you see them pop up. Eventually I may even get brave enough to post some before photos along with progress photos. I usually only do that once I’m feeling good about the progress I’ve made so far as well as how I’m looking. That will probably be a few months in the distant future.

4. Have I said thank you yet? Have I told you how much you rock? Because you do. Thank you for coming here every day. Thank you for subscribing with your feed reader. Thank you for taking the time to click through and leave a comment to let me know you are here and listening. While I would probably continue to write this blog even if I didn’t have a single reader, it just wouldn’t be as much fun. So thank you. You are awesome. Have an equally awesome Wednesday.

Edit to add: Please do not take this post to be me bitching at those of you who didn’t have the time or inclination to participate. There are many of you who comment regularly on other posts and who have commented on the occasional WILH post as well. I know I have your support and I appreciate each and every one of you. I’m stopping the WILH weekly posts mainly because of the comments and opinions I’ve seen on other blogs stating why these kinds of posts are a turn off. The weekly post was an experiment that didn’t pan out the way I had hoped and therefore I’m discontinuing the weekly nature of it. That doesn’t mean they are gone forever. They just won’t be here every Wednesday. You will continue to see WILH posts–but it maybe once a month instead of once a week. Thanks again to everyone who has enjoyed them and shared that with me. I appreciate every one of you.

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