past posts that will help you get to know me

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Last Updated on June 27, 2019 by karissa ancell

It absolutely shocks me that this little blog of mine was started 5 years ago this summer. I could never have imagined that I would keep blogging after years of doing it. I just ended up falling in love with it and becoming addicted to learning more and more. I also love reading other blogs and loved this post over on Coffee with Summer where she shared past posts that will hep new readers get to know her. 

I thought it was such a great idea and given the fact that I have been blogging for awhile now I wanted to create a similar post to share some of my past posts. I’m sure that many of the people who read my blog, in the beginning, may not be who is reading it now and new followers probably have not read these posts I wrote years ago. I hope this gives everyone reading this a chance to read posts of mine they haven’t seen before.

My Stroke of Luck // One of the reasons I started blogging was because I had a stroke. 

30 Life Lessons I have learned //  I am a big believer in learning lessons through life and a few years ago when I was turning 30 I put together the best life lessons I had learned. 

10 Lessons to take from a Horrible experience // when you go through a difficult experience it changes who you are and if you are lucky you learn from it. I learned a lot from my health crisis and shared some of those lessons in this post. 

 How to Be a Better Parent // Being a parent is a tough job but I feel like I have done well as a mom. A few years ago I shared some of my advice on being a better parent. 

 The Pros and Cons of Being a Young Mom // I became a mom pretty young. I was almost 22 so an adult but  I was still young. In this post, I shared some of the good and bad of being a mom that young. 

 Dear Daughter: 10 Things I Want you to Know // I really like this post I wrote for my daughter. I should do a more updated version. I wrote this when my daughter was 5 and now she’s 10 so I have new things to tell her. 

Marriage posts

My 9 Secrets to a Happy and Healthy Marriage// What makes a marriage work is unique to each marriage. There are ways to make your marriage better and I shared my 9 secrets that I have found to work. 

 How Almost Dying Saved My Marriage // This is probably one of my most personal posts. I really think that almost dying did save my marriage and I’m grateful for what I went through 

Marriage and Soul Mates // In this post I shared my opinion on soul mates. Check it out if you want to know if I think my husband and I are soul mates. 

More of my favorite past posts

The best advice I’ve ever been given // This is still some of the best advice I’ve received. I have shared it with lots of people because I think it’s really important. 

Questions I get asked when I say I’m a blogger and my answers//I’ve written a lot of posts about blogging but this one really stands out to me because when you are a blogger people in your real life don’t always understand what it is that you do. 

I hope you get the chance to check out some of these past posts. I have really enjoyed putting together this post. After blogging for so long now there are a lot of posts that I had forgotten about doing. I’m also going to be updating a bunch of old posts. 

I forgot how much more I use to write about my life in the first couple years of blogging. I realize I miss doing that so I’m going to make the effort to do a personal post on my life every few weeks or so. They are fun to look back on after you’ve forgotten about them. Let me know in a comment if you have any questions for me and if there are any posts you’d like me to write about.