Let me count the ways.....
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height...
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight....
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace....
I love thee to the level of everyday's...
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light....
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right...
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise....
I love thee with a passion put to use...
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith....
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose...
With my lost saints, I love thee with the breath...
Smiles, tears, of all my life and, if God choose...
I shall but love thee better after death....
(With apologies to Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Ummmm ... after reading some of the comments, I need to clarify something. I didn't write the above poem. It's one of my favourites from Elizabeth Barrett Browning. I just added a word to it, hence my apologies to her :-)
It really does sum up my feelings about SITS.
I found SITS in June of this year. Until then I'd been sort of floundering in the sea of blogging, not really knowing what I was doing or where I was heading..
Can't say that I'm all that wiser about where I'm heading as this blog is sort of an ongoing creation...
However, through SITS and many wonderful bloggers that I have met on there, I'm getting a better idea of what I'm doing. I have a better grasp of HTML, I've figured out how to add colour to my posts and lots of other fun stuff...
I feel as though I am part of a community of women, with diverse interests. I can and have learnt from them and I think that maybe they have also learnt things from me..
I love their sense of humour. The obvious love they have for their families. The way they are ready to share their themselves, their quirks, their strengths and little known facts about themselves ...
Amongst those women are...
Kat from SUNSHINE AND LEMONADE
Suzanne from AT HOME WITH THE FARMER'S WIFE
Angie from JOHN DEERE MOM
Mrs 444 :-) from HALF -PAST KISSIN' TIME
Debbie from THIS IS THE LIFE
There are so many others though ... HEATHER TIFFANY LULU LORI RHEA JEN JEN B TRESSA IM
They have all enriched my life in one way or the other...
So have a great BLOGATHON today, everyone. There are some wonderful prizes to be won.
For those that want to get in on the actin, the rules can be found HERE !!!
It was fun checking out your blog and the SITs girls that are your favs!
ReplyDeleteGreat poem! :)
good luck SITSTA!!!
ReplyDeleteLove the poem... and Mrs. 444 is one of my favorite reads !!! Just love her blog :)
ReplyDeleteLook at all of you writing poetry today. I am so glad that the assignment was not to write a poem. Or god forbid a haiku. So, I did what I do best. The term paper.
ReplyDeleteGreat post!
ReplyDeleteYou have been such a wonderful and active SITS girl.
Thank you for supporting your SITStas and good luck with the prizes!!!
visiting you from SITS! Love your blog
ReplyDelete-Meaghan
Happy Blogathon day!!! I love your blog and I'm so glad to have found you. I'll keep reading as long as you keep writing!
ReplyDeletePost is awesome!
ReplyDeleteI am so glad to be a SITS girl today.
Happy Blogathon-ing!
Yay for SITS! I'm finding so many new gems today, I can't hardly STAND it! LOL
ReplyDeleteHappy Blogathon Karen!!
ReplyDeleteHappy Blogothon!!!!Love the Poem!!!
ReplyDeleteCute cute cute!!
ReplyDeleteFun Blog!! Happy SITS day!!
a poem even!!! gals, she deserves a prize for going above and beyond!
ReplyDeletehappy blogathon!
Cute poem! You also have some fun blogs that you're linking to.
ReplyDeleteLove the poem!
ReplyDeleteHappy SITS day!
Aww, thanks for the shout-out! You're my favorite Kiwi. :)
ReplyDeleteSo glad to have found you- through SITS of course. Adding you to my list because it looks like we share some of the same interests. :)
ReplyDeleteHappy 'thoning from a fellow blog sitsah!
ReplyDeleteHappy Blogathon Day!! Isn't SITS great?
ReplyDeleteHappy SITS Day!
ReplyDeleteHappy Blogathon, SITSta!
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun list you have! Love the colors!! ;o)
ReplyDeleteGreat post! Happy SITS day! I'm so glad you found me! ;)
ReplyDeleteHappy Blogathon Day!! Love the post. :)
ReplyDeleteHope you're having a wonderful SITS day! You are wicked talented with that poem, by the way!
ReplyDeleteGreat blog!! My eyes are already crossing from reading all these blogs today! I'll be back!
ReplyDeleteHappy SITS day!
ReplyDeleteHappy SITSathon!
ReplyDeletehaha! I love your post!! So original!! Happy SITS!
ReplyDeleteHope you had a Happy Blogathon Day!
ReplyDeleteI completely forgot that we found each other through SITS! See what a great site it is?? You forget that you met someone on a website because you've started to think of them as friends!
ReplyDeleteWow! I think that is the most impressive welcome sitsta post I ever read! I can't wait to try some of your recipes!
ReplyDeleteHope you had a lovely SITSA day!!! Please forgive the fact that I am only now just getting around :P
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