My Blogiversary - 2 Years Old Plus Giveaway

And here we are again, my Blogiversary. Today marks the day where I have had my blog for 2 years! 

I must admit, this last year I have worked very hard. I think sometimes to hard on my blog as I have posted nearly every day. But looking back over my 266 posts that I wrote, I can see that I had a great year of blogging. 

The best thing about the blog is seeing all the pictures of Lily growing up. I have still continued to do My Sunday Photo through out this year and so I can now put them next to each other and see the difference. One of the biggest Differences is now Lily has grown, so has her hair and I can finally put a pony tail in. She looks so much more grown up in this recent picture of her. 

It has been really great this year to be able to record Lily's progress with moving house, going to nursery and with potty training. I plan to carry on writing all about her as she learns more and attends Nursery for more hours. 

Looking back on my social media followers from last year to this year, they have definitely increased. I would of expected them to have doubled but not quite. I expect that with each year I will gain more followers but at a slower rate due to already having so many followers. Here is how much my social media has grown - 

Twitter Last Year - 4151 

Twitter This Year - 6825 

Total Gained - 2645

Facebook Last Year - 1715 

Facebook This Year - 3230

Total Gained  - 1515

Instagram Last Year - 1346

Instagram This Year - 2198

Total Gained - 852

I would really like to try and get my Instagram following up this year. So if your not already following me then hit the Instagram button at the side bar and please follow me! 

I noted down last blogiversary that I was in the top 500 of Tots 100 but I have realised now that it doesn't really mean much. I am still in the same place as last year and I have only ever once had someone ask me for that score. 

I am still enjoying writing my blog, which is the main thing and I really can't wait to write more. I have noticed that since starting my blog my writing has become much better and so I am hoping that with each year it will keep improving.

In my last blogiversary post I wrote about a few things that I would like to do on the blog. So I think it is important for me to see if I feel I did those things. 

1. Do more Activities - I did do a lot more Activities, but still not as many as i would like to be writing about. Hopefully I can improve on this again.

2. Bake More - I failed with this only doing one or 2 baking posts this year. 

3. A monthly photography post - I have been doing this one most months, and my plan is to really try and do more photography to post about. 

4. Mid month more about me - This is another that I have managed to do most months and I shall be keeping on doing this one. 

5. Re Vamp the blog - Well I slightly did, okay I only changed the banner and got a logo but it is something. I do like the way the blog looks and works though so won't be making huge changes to it.

I don't really have a huge list of things I would like to do this year. But there are a few things I would like to do such as  - 

 Posting on social media more, 

 Posting my posts into Facebook groups. 

 Focus on more topics that people would be interested to read

 Review less and get in more paid work

So, here is to another up and coming year from Lily's Little Learners, I would love to know what you would like to see next from the blog? Is there any thing you would like to see improved about the blog itself?

To celebrate my Blogiversary I have got you a little competition to win a Retro Sweet box. For your chance to win, enter on the Gleam app below. 

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