This post is a part of 20SB’s Looking Back Blog Carnival, and Ben & Jerry’s is awarding free ice cream to lucky bloggers and readers!

Trying to choose a blog post from my first two months blogging has been difficult…they’re all so bad!  It makes me very thankful that I’ve grown as a blogger in the last 3 years, but it’s still a bit painful to look back.

I decided to choose “Two Homes Away from My Home Away from Home” because it’s fairly representative of where I started out as a blogger, basically using the blog as an online journal.  It was originally published June 2, 2006.  I couldn’t help but include some commentary as well.  Enjoy…if you can!

It’s been 11 months since I moved out here. I know that’s not a big marker, but it feels like it to me. [For whatever reason, 11 months was a really big deal, but 1 year wasn't as much.] So much has changed in these 11 months; it seems like yesterday when I was crying over leaving behind dorms, friends, BSU, car, church. [Oh yeah, this was the summer that I studied rhetorical devices.  This one, omission of a conjuction, is called asyndeton.]

Lately I’ve been blessed with deeper friendships with a few different people here in NC. It’s a total answer to prayer! Just last week I was praying for more gospel-centered relationships. I don’t want to merely exchange pleasantries with the believers around me…

This week I’ll be housesitting for two different houses. At the one I simply will be caring for the cats, but at the other I will be caring for a dog, 2 finches, and some plants while I stay there. It’ll be nice to have a little mini-vacation right in Wake Forest. [It was nice to get "away"...but that dog was a bit of a pill!]

What did I tell you…fairly boring!  As a cherry on top of the ice cream, here’s a picture from that time:

See, I was embracing the Tarheels early in my North Carolina life.