Top Ten of 2025

Whew! This year has flown by. Praise the Lord for all that has happened in it, and how He has carried us through it!

This year, yoga once again won the attention on Instagram:

My top blog posts this year were mostly past ones, but these 2025 ones also made the cut:

1) Eats and Empties (Week 4)

2) I enjoy running, but...

3) Everything I Read in January

4) Girls on the Run 5K

5) Real Life Marriage: I Want You to Have Nice Things!

(This seems like such a strange group of posts. Why certain blog posts take off, I will never know!)

Over on Facebook, these were the top posts for the year:

1) Real Life Marriage: The Honeymoon Year (Six Years In)

2) Grieving the (Maybe Not So Little) Things Anew

3) Eats and Empties (Week 17)

4) Nationwide Children's Columbus Half-Marathon

5) Celebrating National Pumpkin Day (Year Five)

To all my faithful readers, thank you. Lord willing, see you for a round of writing in 2026!

Top Ten of 2024

Here is my top nine grid from Instagram. No surprises that it is all YSYD Crew poses, as that is the largest community with which I engage there:

As for this blog, most people seem to view posts on Facebook. The top ten posts there were:

1) Real Life Marriage: Winners and Losers

2) 2024 Christmas Movies

3) Everything I Read in June

4) Real Life Marriage: We Believed He Could, and He Did!

5) I Ran a Marathon! (This one ranked top ten in actual blog reads as well.)

6) Real Life Marriage: I'm Abdicating

7) 40 Year of Faithfulness

8) My Cruise Packing List

9) Real Life Marriage: The Business of Marriage (Also a blog top ten)

10) There is a Savior (Another blog top ten)

Thank you all for reading! Lord willing, see you in 2024!

Top Ten of 2023

It's time for the yearly wrap up! Here are my top nine Instagram posts:

And my top ten blog posts (as viewed on Facebook, where most people seem to prefer to read):

1. Everything I Read in October

2. Everything I Read in March

3. Pumpkin Pie Baked Oatmeal

4. How to Motivate Yourself to Read Scripture

5. Why Not Covenant Marriage?

6. Fresh 15K Race-Cation

7. Grace

8. Real Life Marriage: Let Him Dream

9. Afghan 75

10. Real Life Marriage: The Value of the Word

I am surprised how many views my reading wrap ups got. I guess you all like them? If so, please let me know so I can do more in 2024!

Top Ten of 2020

Well, without further ado, here's the traditional year-end wrap-up post....

(My top nine from Instagram)

The top ten blog posts according to Facebook (where most viewers seem to read):

Real Life Marriage Anger 
Real Life Marriage: Things I Never Expected 
Real Life Marriage: This is Us 
Reframing our View of Money
There is enough 
Real Life Marriage: Date Your Spouse
Staycation: Quarantine Style
Masks and Me
Meaningful 
The Other Shoe 

And the top ten blog posts viewed on the actual blog:

Don't Envy My Body 
To All My Single Sisters
My Mother's Legacy
Masks and Me
Simple Summer Suppers
When My Heart Doesn't Believe
Real Life Marriage: Fair Doesn't Mean Equal
Unilateral Decisions
Real Life Marriage: Date Your Spouse
Real Life Marriage: My Identity is in Him
Staycation: Quarantine Style
Reframing our View of Money
The Best Snack Ever

Metrics aren't everything, but it seems you readers like love love, so as long as I can write about it from a place of honesty and transparency and it's beneficial, I will continue to do so.

So long, 2020, and see you in 2021!

Top Ten of 2018

It's been quite a year, a year of learning and struggling, a year of losing and gaining, a year of struggle and success, a year of sadness and yet some really great joy. So without further ado, here are my top ten blog posts from the year:

Seven "Healthy" Habits I No Longer Practice
Taking the Good With The Bad
Things I'd Like To Lose to Live a Healthier Life
The Bucket List Project
My Lack of a Smile Doesn't Mean I'm Unhappy
Why I Don't Plan to Celebrate Valentine's Day
Fresh 15 Race Weekend + Visit to Family
I Care About Kids...
Living in Limbo
It's My Birthday!

I am not a blogger by profession. My blog is really a passion project, and a way I practice self care. So for those who read posts like these, thank you! I see this blog as a mission field, and I truly hope and pray that what I write speaks to your heart and encourages you.

And in case you want to see my #TopNine from Instagram, here they are: