Three-years ago today is the first time I thought of the name “La Belette Rouge”, a name that more people know me by than my REAL name. Actually, three-years ago today I was co-teaching a class on Jungian symbolism in the films Pan’s Labyrinth and Amelie. After the class was over I drove home and went to my office and sat at my computer and saw that neither of the two blogs I was reading at the time had a new post up and it was then I had a thought that changed my life, “maybe I could do this, maybe I could blog”. An hour later I had a blog of my own.
This blog was supposed to be a place where I would write about my francophile interests, interests that I didn’t have a place to talk about in my everyday life. Oh, and did I mention that I was sure no one would ever read my blog? I thought it was just going to be me, myself and I and occasionally He-weasel, who would read my francophile-filled posts out of matrimonial obligation. I was also sure I would NEVER-EVER-EVER write about my personal life and I certainly would NEVER write about being a therapist or being in therapy. Hah! What did I know? Three-years later and I never write about France anymore ( and yes, I still love you France) and now you can’t shut me up about my personal life and/or my therapy. As I said a few posts back, blogging has changed my life. And I know I have said it before but I must tell you again how much you all mean to me and how grateful I am that you are here and for the real and true friends I have made here. I can’t imagine how I would have gotten through the last three-years without this blog or without lovely you.
I wish I could have a party to celebrate my three-years of blogging( where does the time go??) and you all could come, that would be lovely. I would serve champagne and all kinds of lovely treats. Lily and He-weasel and Igor would be there and I would thank you profusely for coming to my party and to my blog. I would thank you in person and tell you how grateful I am for being there and reading and commenting and I would tell you how I remember the first comment you left( I am sentimental and I have a fantastic memory). Since I can’t have such a party, I hope that you will go get yourself a glass or cup of something lovely to drink ( cappuccino/cafe’ or Pellegrino will do if you read this in the a.m.) and let me toast you and thank you for being here( oh, and I can’t thank you if I don’t know who you are—please, lovely lurkers, delurk!) Please don’t be a party pooper! Come on, stay…have a drink, put a lampshade on your head and dance a Conga—or at least sign the guest book and let me know you were here.
oh my gosh! congratulations on votre troisieme ans de blogging! c’est formidable, madame! that’s french for “you rock!”
plz forgive me for being brief. i am a one handed typer just at the moment. i just have one question…can bosco and i join your conga line? we are at the ready, waiting for a wave or a wink.
je t’aime, weasel-fille!
votre tiger ami
Bon Blahgiversaire! And many happy returns of the day!
I am so happy I found your blog and that we are friends!
Here’s to many more years of La Belette Rouge and to many books, to a life in Lake Bluff, to happiness and laughter and success!
“Salud, Dinero, Amor y tiempo para disfrutarlos!”
Cheers!
Happy 3rd anniversary!!! Great party, you look fabulous! Keep on blogging xx
Happy Anniversary, dear friend!
I will indeed toast your wonderful idea of starting this blog three years ago. (You know, I like to think that we would have met regardless, but boy, this finding this blog to read your beautiful writing sure helped!)
And your friendship makes such a difference in my life.
Ah, big hugs sweet girl! And wishes for many more years of blogging.
Love,
Kirie
Happy anniversary my dear LBR!
Congratulations!! I’m thrilled you decided to start your blog, and that you are still going strong!
Just the other night I had a dream about queuing to pay for a basket of groceries, and I woke up afterwards and thought “I just dreamed of my animus!!” (there was a prominent male figure in the dream) No idea whether it was my animus or not, but I never would have had that thought if it wasn’t for you. So your influence is a lot more far reaching than you think!
You have a gorgeous blog and a very unique voice, and I hope to “celebrate” countless more anniversaries with you. Cheers!;-)
I remember almost the very beginnings of your blog, and how excited I was to find it, and you!
Congratulations on your third anniversary! I think I speak for many when I say you have enriched our lives with your knowledge, wit, and your thought provoking, beautiful writing.
I know we haven’t talked in quite some time, but you are in my thoughts (and prayers) all the time.
Best,
Christine xo
I too never ever thought anyone would be interest in the curious smorgasbord that is my blog, lacking direction or function! Yet it has become integral to my working day and I have become a much better teacher because of it. My emails too it is said have become easier to understand as well. So many, many happy returns and here’s to many more years of trading a full and frank dialogue about the highs and lows of life! I feel the best is yet to come.
Hi and congrats on your 3rd anniversary in the blogging world!
I found your url @ Antonella’s (lunarossa) and decided to pop by. You sure have an interesting blog 
Happy blogaversary Belette!
xxx
First of all, Happy Blogaversary to you. I know that you make my morning better everyday. I sit in bed sipping Peete’s French Roast with half and half and devour my blog list. Yours is always met with great anticipation. I know you wrote about Francophile stuff, but as I told you; most readers want to know the person. It’s the person that matters, not just what they write. You can see that your blog brings joy to many. Never doubt that. I hope your retreat is healing.
As you are a whole blog year older than me….I now understand why you sound so very clever. Congratulations La Belle….it’s lovely having you here, xv.
Congratulations! Happy 3 years, dear!
You enrich so many lives through your writing. Hip hip, HOORAY!
Congratulations! Now go out and do something fun for yourself today.
I’m a new reader via the Stirrup Queen. Happy Blog Anniversary! I’m grateful that you continue to tell your story.
Have the glass of champagne in my hand as I type!
The conga line looks fun! Sorry I haven’t been here for the full three years but I have enjoyed the ride I’ve had with you and hope to continue for the next three years. Happy blog anniversary! xx
Happy blogaversary! I’m so glad you’re here.
Holy Jung, it *has* been three years. A celebration for these swanky digs, wouldn’t miss it, but I’m not dancing.
Congratulations on three years of blogging. I admire your wit and your writing, but I especially admire your courage and honesty.
I toast you with a cup of cafe au lait!
My third anniversary as a blogger passed while I was still very much in transition from that place to this so I’ve only just remembered. Congratulations for having passed through the terrible two’s.
I’m glad we’ve been friends so long.
I just recently found your blog through another blog dealing with infertility and childlessness. I have enjoyed reading your posts, and while we may not share similar backgrounds I can relate to many things you describe about your life…the biggest being the sisterhood of childlessness.
Oh, and happy blogaversary! Blogging has changed my life too even though mine’s not as well-read as yours (I’m not jealous or anything… *smile*)
Blessings!
Happy anniversary from another 3 year old!
Ma chère Belette c’est à ton tour
De te laisser parler d’amour.
Ma chère Belette, c’est à ton tour
De te laisser parler d’amour.
There’s a little French Canadian Happy Blog Birthday song for you!
Wishing you a happy 3rd La Belette here from the midwest!! Your writing is brilliant.
I’m jumping onto your conga line too!
Happy Blogaversary to you,m’dear!!!
I’ve been reading you for about two years now. I can’t remember how I found your blog. Maybe via the French Chic yahoo group? I do remember that you made my day (life) when you visited my wee little blog and left me a very lovely comment when I was in the midst of dealing with a very crazy, very mean,very bitter English Prof.
Happy Blogaversary!
Your words resonate with me and the heart wrenching topics that you comment so eloquently about often follow me for the rest of the day.
happy blogaversary! I celebrated my first year last day (what a coincidence, uh?). It is amazing how fast time passes by when you are sharing your thoughts and reading what your words made the readers feel…to acknowledge the power of honest writing!
pd- Pan’s labyrinth is one of my favorites movies!
Cheers! Toasting you to a wonderful blog and a great three years!
I’m always game for a party! Cheers Belette! Here’s to 3 years and many happy more
Congrats on the blogaversary!
I have more blog friends than actual friends and that worries me sometimes.
♥¨`*•.¸¸.•*´¨♥bon anniversaire!♥¨`*•.¸¸.•*´¨♥
Je t’aime l’internets.
Joyeux Bloganniversaire, Belette!!! 3 ans… ça fait rêver…
Tous mes meilleurs voeux et tout plein de chocolat!!!
Grosses bises!!! XXX
LBR,
Happy Blogaversary!
I went back and saw that you first commented on my blog on Dec 5, 2007. I think this is wonderful.
xo
Bisous
Yay!!!! I am so glad you continue to blog. I initially found your blog because of the French slant. Keep writing!
L
Beautiful Belette, you are a treasure – a thoughtful, sweet, generous, smart-to-the-nth degree, treasure. You light up the blogasphere
. Happy blogaversary and warmest wishes on this special day. oooo
Happy Blogaversary, ma belle!!!
Founding you made all the difference in my life.
Thank you very much for all you gave us here and with your comments.
Love you and my best wishes on this special day and ever.
Big Hug
xoxo
Mazel tov, beautiful! Glad you took the bloggy plunge.
Happy Anniversary honey pie. Smooches for you and your little dog too!
CONGRATULATIONS! I think I may have been one of your first readers! So it is my anniversary too in a way (remember it is all about me-hahaha).
I remember it as if it were yesterday but it is already so long ago!
Hope there is a chance to celebrate soon!
Happy Birthday LBR!
Lots of love
Congratulations LBR…please remind me to ask you about Pan’s labyrinth. I loved that movie and am curious what you taught in your class. So glad you blogged and look forward to more and more.
I am going to go back now and re-review for the third time yesterday’s blog..Donna? xoxo
Happy blogversary!!!! So happy you took that leap three years ago!!!!
Happy Blogaversary to You! Happy Blogaversary to You!!!
I am so happy you write your blog and I found it! I always read your blog first thing when I see it. Then I have to savor it slowly a second time before I can even think to comment.
Put me right in that conga line, and keep on blogging!
Happy, happy Blogaversary to you!!!!
Happy 3rd anniversary.. I only know that I am glad you started blogging as I have met a kindred spirit in this huge world, which would not have been possible without the world of blogging
I love Pans Labyrinth by the way, although the man reminds me so much of my Spanish ex, his father was a general under Franco.. ( although he was a a lovely gentle man) Mt ex however was quite arrogant and reminded me of the cruel Captain.
xxx
Keep on trukin baby.. I mean blogging xx
Wow – three years! In blog years that’s equal to like, fifteen human years! Blog on!
lovely belette!
looks like a party is happening here in this space full of appreciation for you! thank you! for the love and wisdom and fun you share with us. it is a pleasure, your very presence, even though we have not met, somethings somehow come through your writings and your connection with us, and i know i am better for it. merci madame!!
happy blog birthday!! what a pleasure to come to the party! i am doing something very nice for myself tomorrow, i will think of you and raise a glass in toast to you:)
the weekend is near… hope something makes you smile:)
hugs and hugs
Happy blogiversary! How great, I’m so glad that I found you here and our fun commonalities! My massage this morning was glorious and I thought of you and was grateful! I’ll have a glass of wine tonight and toast your greatness!!! (and Lily, and Tisk Tisk!!)
Really? It’s only been three years?! Where does the time go? Anyway, congrats on hanging in there and thank you! I remember the dark time of the no blogging, and I’m so glad you’re in my inbox regularly. Here’s to three more!
Chère Belette,
bon anniversaire à toi! I’m celebrating with dark chocolate with hazelnuts and some herbal tea (it is 22:32 after all). All the best to you, the one blogger who leaves me very often in awe because of your beautiful metaphores. You are my queen of metaphores, there you have it. Just for this, I’ll open another package of chocolat.
Bonne nuit
Daniela from France
Many happy wishes on this your third anniversary!!! And thank you for the pleasure, the laughs and the tears. You are exceptional!
Happy Anniversary! Glad I found your blog recently.
Yah, three years is a long time in the blogosphere!
BTW, I love the term, delurk. Now I just need to find a sentence to use it in…
Three years of La Belette Rouge and the blogosphere is all the better for it. (I’d say the world but I don’t want to get too grandiose here!)
DELURK ~ Oh yeah, this one should go viral and wind up in the Urban Dictionary before three more years have passed.
Happy Blogaversary, Dear You. xoxoxox
Bon Anniversaire!
You are a wonderful light and I am so glad I found you. Enjoy your birthday and celebrate how far you have traveled.
xxoo
Happy anniversary. As you know, your blog has been exceedingly important to me. It’s teaching me so much about deciding to be okay, about the importance of narrative in understanding disappointment and bad things. And of course, there’s the intrinsic delight in reading it and coming to know you through it. I look forward to next three years.
Happy Blogaversary to my favorite blog!
Salud! Pura Vida! Santé! Cheers to you!
No dancing for me (I’d drop a brick on my foot just to get out of that!), but I will join you in a toast! I am so glad to have found you! Happy Blogaversary, m’dear!!
Happy blogaversary! I started reading back when you blogged about France but kept reading as the focus changed.
Happy blogversary. I can’t remember how I came across you here!
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!
Oh boy am I happy you took the plunge and opened yourself up to us through your blog. I can’t imagine my life without you a part of it now.
I am sure I speak for all of your fans when I say that your influence and generosity of spirit has touched more people that you could ever possibly know. NEVER doubt that.
For our sake, I hope you have many, many, many more anniversaries.
xoxoxo
here of course… happy blog b-day to you!
Well I’m really glad that you’re on the web! Happy Blogaversary!!
Cool thing to celebrate – congratulations! Happy to be along for your ride : )
OK, I’ll de-lurk. Although it’s very bright out here… In honour of your blogaversary I’m drinking Lemsip and eating a twix.
Felicitations d’une amie de Fireblossom!!
Trois ans, ca fait bon-bien!
xo
I am happier as a lurker, but I do enjoy reading your blog! I’ll have a glass of wine later to celebrate your blogoversary.
Milestones are cool … thanks for sharing your 3 year marker & how worthwhile the journey has been, continues to be! Congratulations! — Daisy
And to think I only discovered you today!!
Happy Blogversay
Congratulations! I’m glad to be a part of your blogging and real-time world.
Happy Milestone! I still remember where I first saw you! (Randal’s)
I’m so glad you blog, but you know that, don’t you?
Happy anniversary! Here’s to another three blogging years – at least!
Happy, happy Blogaversary Belette, will definitely be cracking open a bottle of the sparkly stuff in your honour. Your lovely blog was one of the first I came across when I started the whole Bloggie process and you were my first follower and commenter. Long may your blog continue.
XXX
Cheers and congrats, LBR!
I can’t imagine the Internet without you!
XOXO
A.
Hey, I left my lampshade at home, but I’m still up for dancing the Conga with you!
Congrats on your 3 year mark, that is huge! I saw your post on FB about it, and meant to stop by here sooner, but it’s been a dry week in blogland for me (haven’t been online reading as much as I’d like).
Love, hugs, & champagne for all!! I love you & your blog/life/writing approach. You’ve changed the way I approach blogging, meaning that you are so gracious and open with your posts, and I love your style of writing, you should be in all the bookstores across the country, it is only a matter of time.
xoxoxo,
Terresa
Happy Tres!
Oh! Happy 3rd Anniversary, dearest friend! Lots of love and hugs to you!
Happy 3rd blogversary! I still remember the post which got me hooked. It’s the one with the mentioning of my country name. Having a cuppa and a silent toast for you in front of my screen
.
Congratuations, Belette! May your blog keep on going for a very long time. Hugs. A.
Oh no! I am late to wish you a happy blogaversary. I must see yours as the only blog I read which is a proper intellectual and creative engagement, as during my hiatus I found myself unable to go on your website. The only blogs I really read were picture blogs. I’m sorry I worried you! I am happy to be back reading la belette rouge xxx
I’m glad I finally got to congratulating you on this fab milestone, like before your 4th anniversary! (I’m sorry I’ve been struggling to keep up with all of my reading.) It’s so good to know, though, that when I need my Bel-fix, there’s always a post waiting for me xo