I figured I should write a new post because 1) even I can get tired of a naked Kiera Knightly and 2) Jacob can’t pay $95 a year for web hosting so the Internet can look at pictures of Vanity Fair covers and my fishies.

It’s been almost a year since Crunchy Cursive started. I’ve been thinking back a lot lately to that time.

The first week of March 2008 was one of the most horrible of my life – my miscarriage was fresh and painful. I was so overcome with devastation and sorrow at the loss of our tiny new baby. Early in the week, we came home from a doctor’s appointment where we found out our baby had died two weeks prior. I was carrying a dead baby in my belly. It was a horrific and empty feeling. I needed anything for distraction. Jacob and I ended up wandering around different stores for a solid two hours that afternoon. Just because we didn’t know what else to do.

Jacob, in his good-husbandness, tried to buy my cheer with a new MacBook. We got home from the Apple store and it had worked – I was temporarily distracted. I had a brand new computer and an awesome web-designer husband who could make me the cutiest, patutiest blog template imaginable. I had wanted to get into the blogging game for quite some time because, you know, everyone was a blogger. Or a at least a closet blog-stalker.

One year later, I can’t believe how much life has changed. Our first baby has been gone for a whole year. We moved into a great house. We got pregnant again by pretty much just winking at each other. I spent the whole summer puking. We watched my belly grow and grow and grow. Then Poppy Anne happened and we about died of happiness. It’s been a super year. I am really grateful that it’s all documented on this site. I hope you haven’t minded riding along.

Can someone bug Jacob for an new “Happy Anniversary to Leanne’s Blog” re-design?