What Brings You to My Blog?

I have recently discovered Google Analytics. It tells me some interesting information about my blog. My favorite section is Traffic Sources. It tells me where people found the link to my blog, such as search engine, Facebook, another blog, etc.

One part of Google Analytics that I find funny are the keywords people search that link them to my blog.

• our growing family kelli jordan blogspot (there are lots similar to something as simple as this example. These are obviously people who are actually searching for my blog. The rest of these however, are just kind of odd and funny)
• first dentist
• I didn't know I was pregnant
• Pottery Barn Newport Kids Bed for Sale
• 29 Weeks Pregnant
• Chili's Cinnamon Apple Ingredients
• Normally Topless Beach Holiday (hmmmm.....I don't think these people found what they were looking for....I have mentioned my children being topless after dinner, but not for a beach holiday)
• 214-718-1784 (Why would some just search his number? Weird.)
• bedroom furniture beds
• ceramic toothbrush holder stinks
• cookie carnival toasted almond lemon bars
• hand, hand, fingers, thumb criticism
• into labor
• jackson slept with a doll (This kind of disturbed me at first, but after I searched it myself I discovered that there was a lot of talk about Michael Jackson sleeping with a doll. And although my Jackson has never slept with a doll, I have mentioned him carrying around and burping a doll when Garrett was a baby)
• kfc coupon for free
• Laura Bush
• Little cowboy and horse pictures
• man dies at great wolf lodge grapevine
• modern kids beds
• our family is growing by two feet
• Popsicle slow melt
• Pottery Barn regional buyers
• Pottery Barn thomas look alike bed
• Pottery Barn Chicken Towel
• Pottery Barn Mason Dresser for Sale
• Pottery Barn twin bed (Back during the whole bed issue, I wished there was a "bad review" section on Pottery Barn's website. Even though there wasn't one, maybe my blog turned someone against them.)
• Sonic Float Youth Hedgehog Automotive Boom Nintendo
• What kind of battery do I need for the clock timer of the pampered chef
• Where else can I buy pottery barn kids
• Hydro Green Irrigation
• Baby Bump

Another thing I found interesting is where people have read my blog from, other than the United States:

• Canada
• Iraq
• Turkey
• United Kingdom
• Philippines
• India
• Germany
• Australia
• Kuwait
• Israel
• Belgium
• Malaysia
• Romania
• Poland
• Lebanon
• Singapore
• Croatia

Maybe it was one of these people searching for the "Normally Topless Beach Holiday."

With this in mind, please feel free to comment on this post and let me know you read my blog and/or become a "follower" over there on the top right hand side of my blog. There are people that tell me they read my blog and I never knew they did. We may not even know each other and that's okay....I won't think you are weird. There are a lot of people I feel like I know from finding their blog through a friend's blog, but yet we have never met.

There are times when I wish I could send out a personal e-mail to readers of my blog instead of writing an actual post. For example, to get back at me for the high heel picture of Jackson, Aaron took the cutest picture of Jackson going potty off the back porch wearing cowboy boots and a cowboy hat. The picture is adorable and I would love to post it on here, but it is bare bottom. His age and a bare bottom is kind of debatable to post on a public site, however I would be okay with sending it through e-mail to people who keep up with my blog. It's just one of those things that is a follow up to a previous blog post, but yet I don't feel comfortable posting it on here.

So, go ahead....confess to reading my blog. If you don't want to confess with your name, I give you permission to leave an anonymous comment with something like "we went to high school together," or "I found your blog through a friend's blog," etc. I PROMISE I will not think you are crazy!! Google Analytics told me the average number of readers I have daily, but yet I didn't know that many people knew me. Who are you?? :)