Wow!!

One year ago today, I frantically spent my lunch hour securing the craigkozicki.com domain name and setting up this blog site.  At the time it was simply for the purpose of ease of communication and freeing Shelly up so she could focus on Craig.  It was a time when calls and e-mails were flying back and forth between hundreds of people hungry for up-to-the minute updates on Craig's condition, which at the time wasn't full of a lot of good news.

It's been a helluva year, and today Craig, Shelly and Emily are Craigstrong in Michigan at another wedding.

I could write volumes reflecting on what the past year has been and the prayers, wishes and activities that have centered from the blog, but that's not necessary because the blog speaks for itself and all entries are intact. 

A blog regular for so long was me interrupting the blog traffic to offer blog stats - so, on the one year anniversary of the blog, here are some for you:

Total entries:  1122
Total "Hits": 26723 (73/day)
First blog entry: 7/21/06 - 12:52 PM (see Craig, I really did get this done on my lunch hour!!)
Total Words:  218,461
More on the entries:  3.07/day, 21.58/week, 93.5/month
Authors: 109
Most frequent authors: (top 10)
1) Shelly - 174
2) Randy Pearson - 90
3) Tom Talbot - 75
4) Deb Mitchem - 72
5) Renee Donaldson - 65
6) Patti Austin (PAWY) - 61
7) Linda Perry - 58
8) Carol Bleisch - 57
9) Pamela Ryan - 42
10) Phyllis Critchfield - 40
Most entertaining author:  Could only be Peat!
Most opened blog entries (this is when the individual blog entry is opened up - not just read on the main page):
1) Saturday update - 399
2) Live Like You Were dyin' - 329
3) Note from Robert Waxman - 225
4) Tuesday Update - 212
5) Wednesday Update - 203
6) Quiet Kozicki Heroes - 194
7) Monday Update - 194
8) Greetings from Craig - 188
9) Sunday Update - 180
10) Friday Night Update - 174
Most printed entries:
Thinking of you - 15
Note from Robert Waxman - 11
Saturday Update - 10
Bloggy Stuff - 7
Greetings from Craig - 7
Hang in There - 7

We posted hundreds of prayers for Craig and Shelly to read, ran the Meals-on-Wheels program, planned, executed and posted photos of the Hootenany, generated a prayer list with nearly 150 names on it, watched Emily and Kyle be inducted into a secret society, are publicizing Craig's Grant -  and now - Quartermania! - all from this little ol' blog

Happy 1st anniversary to the blog, from 'ol bloggy