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Welcome To Our New "Home"

It's been nearly a year (on April 20th) since I embarked on this wonderful adventure and I'm delighted to see that I've had so many of you tagging along for the ride.

To be honest, I had become rather fed-up with the AOL site. The templates and choices I was offered on the site were limited to say the least. You needed a magnifying glass to properly view the photos and the fact that I was unable to properly spell-check my work, really bothered me. I mean, for Heaven's sake, what kind of teacher am I, if I keep on making spelling mistakes (I know you noticed, even if you were too kind to mention it).

So here we are, a new blog, a new site and a chance to get some more controversies going! I know the last few entries on the AOL site had you fuming, but it was really great to see you adding your comments and showing me that writing a blog is not always a lonely experience.

It's a new improved recipe people. Let's enjoy ourselves and keep the comments coming!

Onwards and upwards!

Comments

Anonymous said…
FIRST TO COMMENT HERE!! Woohoo!!!

meshaneh makom meshaneh mazal - hope this means you will have only good things from here on in.

(((HUGS)))

Kiki
Just said…
Dear cousin,

Welcome here. It will be a lot easier to post comments here for me.

Blogger is not perfect either, but I like it quite a lot. Do not worry about any spellin errors, this Dutchman will be ahead in the counts for sure..

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