{"id":7411,"date":"2013-01-24T19:41:44","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T00:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.relishments.com\/blog\/?p=7411"},"modified":"2013-01-31T20:13:53","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T01:13:53","slug":"thank-you-4-and-a-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.relishments.com\/blog\/thank-you-4-and-a-giveaway\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank You #4 (and a Giveaway!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month, Relishments officially turned 4 years old.\u00a0 At the time, I was neck deep in end of semester projects and Christmas preparations, so I decided that waiting until January to celebrate another year of blogging would be more appropriate.<\/p>\n

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headers over the years\u2026<\/em>Every year when I write my blogoversary post, I talk about how I never expected to write this long.\u00a0 It\u2019s certainly longer than most things I\u2019ve done in my life, including the length of time I was at almost every school I attended, how long I\u2019ve been married and longer lasting than any place I\u2019ve lived full time since I was 15.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been doing this so long I really cannot imagine a life without it.\u00a0 I cannot fathom a world without a full Google Reader, post ideas rolling around in my brain and the collection of people in my life that I\u2019ve met through blogging.\u00a0 Blogging has introduced me to food, places, ethical issues, technology and an amazing community.<\/p>\n

Special thanks, once again, to Allie<\/a> (whose previous food blog initially inspired me), my parents (who have watched this site evolve from the beginning and paid for the first few years of my domain name ownership), my husband (who lets me cook strange things, travel to meet strangers, spend all my time online, proofreads all my posts, and eats anything that comes out of the kitchen), my mother-in-law (whose online and offline comments are always above and beyond what I\u2019d expect), my sister (for her proofreading and sharing of my blog with her friends), Heather<\/a> (for constantly promoting my posts),\u00a0 Cynthia<\/a> (for introducing me to Heather, the Capital District NY bloggers and Healthy Living Blogs), Healthy Living Blogs<\/a> and the Healthy Living Summit<\/a> (for keeping me connected, challenging me to improve and introducing me to so many wonderful bloggers).\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t do it without any of you.<\/p>\n

So, to thank you all for your continued support, promotion and interest in this blog,\u00a0 I\u2019m giving away some of my favorite products.\u00a0 These items aren\u2019t from any source except my friend and local stores, everything was purchased by me simply because I want to say thank you and share some things I\u2019m loving lately.<\/p>\n

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The winner will receive<\/p>\n