Are you tired of talking about 2023 yet and ready to move onto 2024? I'm coming to the end of this series of post so I will soon move on and focus on the time at hand. For my penultimate post, I'm talking about my blog stats. I've never reviewed blog stats in the past. I don't aim for a certain level of readership. I don't have any ads. I just write to get my thoughts down and to connect with others. But it is interesting to see what resonates the most!
One caveat before I start! I switched my comment form to disqus this fall since the blogger comment form has not been working great for much of 2023 for iPhone users. But that means all of the comments that were left before the switch are missing. Womp womp. So you won't see comments on anything posted before late fall which is a huge bummer because the comment sections can be so interesting!
Top 5 posts of 2023:
1. Finance Friday: 2022 Spending - My annual spending post is always a popular one! I'll be back later this week with my 2023 spending so stay tuned!
2. Guest Post: Elisabeth - Elisabeth and I did a blog swap back in April.
2. Kid Activities + Complicated Feelings About Sport - I talked about how I was not athletic as a child and how my involvement in sports was certainly net negative for my self-esteem.
3. Virtual Coffee Date - I talked about Paul starting Kindergarten in this "coffee date" and how I almost felt bad about not feeling sad that he was starting school. I felt nothing but joy because he was so ready for school.
4. Five Things Friday - In this run-of-the-mill weekly post, I talked about my boss telling me that we needed to talk later in the day without telling me what we needed to talk about and how stressed out that made me! It resonated with many of you.
Top 5 posts of All-Time:
1. Living with RA: My First Flare - I was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) in August 2013. It took a good 6 months to get my cocktail of meds figured out, but once I did I didn't have another flare until January 2016. In this post, I talk about that flare.
2. A Fall Weekend at the Lake - I do not know why this is such a popular post! It's a recap of a weekend at my parents' lake home when Paul was about 7 months old. But check out the pics of baby Paul in this post! This was his bobble head phase when his head was sooo big for his tiny body.
3. Wedding Wednesday - This was the first in a series of posts about planning our wedding. I shared some of the big and somewhat controversial decisions (like not having a wedding dance and no bridesmaid dresses for example) we made. We had a very short engagement - we were engaged on December 9th, 2016 and got married on May 19th, 2017. That was perfect for us. We were 36 when we got married so had no desire to have a long engagement.
4. 10 Days of Thanksgiving: Day 4 - Stable Job - I used to do a 10 days of Thanksgiving post series in the days leading up to Thanksgiving and this post in particular stood out. It was about how grateful I was to be working with my mentor again and in a stable, healthy work environment. I had been on a career rollercoaster for years before moving over to my current role in July 2015. I miss working with my colleague who has since retired but pretty much everything I said in this post is still true.
5. Sleep Training for Adults - I had truly horrible insomnia in the summer of 2015 and sought out a sleep specialist for help. I used cognitive behavioral therapy to cure my insomnia. It worked but it was not a fun process to go through. But I shared what I learned. And I still use it. Twice in the last week I've been up in the middle of the night reading on my kindle after tossing and turning for over 10 minutes after being woken by various things (using the bathroom one night and a child the other night).
I have some new readers so you probably learned a thing or two about me! Have you looked at your most popular posts? Are there any that are surprising to you?
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