Favorite Posts


  • Keeping Life Real & Honest: In which I share about my personal struggle with depression and the steps I was taking to make a better life for myself and my family.
  • Why We Chose Sonlight: This was an important post for me in clarifying why our family chose this homeschool curriculum for our preschooler
  • 30 Day Photo Challenge: This series held many of my most popular posts of 2011. Too bad I didn't finish it. Maybe that will be one of my blogging goals for 2012.
  • Helping Moms in Joplin, MO: Moms helping moms. That is what you helped me do when a tornado touched down in Joplin earlier this year. Thank you generous readers. You did good.
  • New Playground in Lakeland: I think the popularity of this post had a lot to do with SEO. I only half pay attention to SEO when writing personal posts, but this was a popular search string early in the year when the park opened.
  • Why I Am Going to MOPS Convention: A subject near and dear to my heart, thank you to MOPS Int'l for sending so many great people my way to read about my own reasons for leaving my family for a few days last August.
  • Monthly Menu Planning: I guess I'm not the only one who needs to keep my schedule and grocery costs under control! I am still using a monthly plan. Are you?
Honorable Mention - Bruce's guest post, Education's So-Called "Experts" had more page views than any other published post in 2011.