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	<title>Leanne&#039;s Life &#187; 5th Anniversary</title>
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		<title>Happy 5th Anniversary (to me!)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Five years ago I started this blog to share my stories and adventures of my life in Hong Kong. I was headed overseas for a 4-month assignment and thought a blog would be a cool, inexpensive way to stay in touch with my family and friends. The blog was originally named &#8220;The Life of Leanne&#8221;. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>Five years ago I started this blog to share my stories and adventures of my life in Hong Kong.  I was headed overseas for a 4-month assignment and thought a blog would be a cool, inexpensive way to stay in touch with my family and friends. The blog was originally named &#8220;The Life of Leanne&#8221;.</p>
	<p><img class="alignnone" title="Hong Kong 2005" src="http://www.leannejakubowski.com/photos/mike.jpg" alt="" width="325" height="308" /></p>
	<p>me, Mike Hyland at Hong Kong Disneyland, 5 months before Grand Opening</p>
	<p>I can&#8217;t believe 5 years have passed.  Since then I&#8217;ve been back to Hong Kong for another 2-month stint in 2006, spent 6-weeks in Paris in 2007, toured Madrid and Barcelona in 2007, been to 4 Super Bowls (7 total) and so much more (<a href="http://disneyworldmoms.com">WDW Moms Panel</a>, <a href="http://www.disneyparks.com/blog">Disney Parks Blog</a>, <a href="http://www.twitter.com/leannej">Twitter</a>, Facebook, and so much more.)</p>
	<p><img class="alignnone" title="Super Bowl XL Detroit" src="http://www.kodakgallery.com/imaging-site/services/doc/1422:498955576106/jpeg/BG" alt="" width="480" height="640" /><br />
<img class="alignnone" title="Trying to look deep in thought in Paris 2007" src="http://www.kodakgallery.com/imaging-site/services/doc/3477:610643657206/jpeg/BG" alt="" width="426" height="640" /></p>
	<p>Super Bowl XL in Detroit  and trying to look deep in thought in Paris 2007.</p>
	<p>What kind of a mom would I be if I didn&#8217;t bring out the baby photos!?!  (Please don&#8217;t click away &#8211; these are worth seeing and there&#8217;s not very many of them.)</p>
	<p>This is one of my favorite pictures of Jefferson. Total action shot!!<br />
<img class="alignnone" title="Jefferson gets a &quot;10&quot; from the diving judges!" src="http://www.leannejakubowski.com/photos/JPool%20Jump%20A.jpg" alt="" width="345" height="259" /></p>
	<p>Here&#8217;s a photo of Ashley- my very first dog. She lived to be 14 years old and was quite a girl! She was an awesome dog.</p>
	<p><img class="alignnone" title="Ashley - my first dog " src="http://www.leannejakubowski.com/photos/AshleyBall.JPG" alt="" width="320" height="237" /></p>
	<p>And then came Mikita in December 2007.<br />
<img class="alignnone" title="Mikita at 7-weeks old." src="http://www.leannejakubowski.com/photos/MikitaMe2W.jpg" alt="" width="375" height="382" /></p>
	<p>And following Mikita&#8217;s arrival was the re-friendship with Mike. <img src='http://leanneslife.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
<a href="http://leanneslife.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Mike.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-989" title="Mike" src="http://leanneslife.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Mike-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a></p>
	<p>I&#8217;ve had some really wonderful life moments shared with you here on the blog.  I&#8217;ve been struggling lately trying to figure out where it goes from here. I have to be honest, I&#8217;m confused with all the advice I read on blogging and the &#8220;rules&#8221; they establish for bloggers and realize I don&#8217;t fit into this realm, based of what they  consider the &#8220;right&#8221; way to blog.  I blog about everything in my life &#8211; my dogs, my man, my friends, my work life, my home life&#8230; everything.  Yet the &#8220;experts&#8221; say I should have a niche and focus.  This thinking has me all confused and wondering if I should even continue on.<br />
But I will.  I enjoy this, even if it&#8217;s not what a blog expert says it should be. I hope you continue to read my blog. It will be what it has been for the past 5 years &#8211; a blog about my life. A blog about what I do, who I am, what makes me happy.  I don&#8217;t write this for advertisements so I have no guiding light other than my heart.  I hope you continue to stop by once in awhile and enjoy what you see.
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