It's always very interesting to me to see which posts really resonate in a year. And in 2020, it was a lot of Mixed Drink Monday with a many years old cleaning post being, by far, my highest seen blog post ever. I guess that is what 2020 needed, cleaning and alcohol.
I did remove my Quick Lits from the list since I link those up and a list filled with those isn't the most exciting (although, July was the most read, if you are curious). FOUR of the posts below were on last year's list too, which I find surprising. And ONE of them has been in my top 10 posts for 3 years in a row now (which is as long as I've been doing these). And not necessarily the one I would have picked to have the most staying power! Only two of these were actually published in 2020 which...I'm going to have to reflect on THAT a bit.
Without more of my rambling...here we go!
#10 A Big Cloth Diapering Post (Pub. June 2013)
This was the first cloth diapering post I wrote, when we were about a month into cloth diapering baby Luke. We were much more serious about cloth diapering him and did have to change up our routine a bit but he was mostly cloth diapered until he was potty trained. This is all about how we did it! Sam was still in cloth most of the time but we never did cloth with him overnight (we were tired) and not long for naps (because I didn't want to have to change him before running to school pick-up) but still largely how we cloth diapered Sam! I've spent nearly 5 of the almost 8 years we've been parents doing cloth diapers!
#9 Mixed Drink Monday: Sweet Tea Margaritas (Pub. May 2019)
This is one that was also a top 10 post in 2019. And for good reason, they WERE good and I think the picture came out nicely which is a big influence for how it does on Pinterest (although there were plenty more that I think also had good pictures that haven't done as well on Pinterest). Maybe we all just needed margaritas last year?
#8 Favorite {Grown-Up} Reads of 2019 (Pub. January 2020)
One of my favorite to write so I like seeing that it's a well-read one too! Really, my blog is mostly about reading and alcohol. Whatever that says about me!
#7 Mixed Drink Monday: Pineapple Wine Punch (Pub. June 2020)
This may have been the weekend I forgot to take our DSLR to the lake and had to do all my drink pictures with my phone. It DEFINITELY was a time I got MULTIPLE different drinks out of one bottle of wine. I have a strange and rarely needed talent to really maximize my drink making with one ingredient like that!
This is the one that is on this list for the 3rd year in a row. I NEED to connect with all these other mamas of lemur lovers because we have SOMETHING in common. I honestly don't think I ever thought about a lemur ever in my life until Luke was gifted his beloved stuffed one at a baseball game when he was 17 months old. Now I think about lemurs daily, mainly reminding the boys to get them off my floor. Also, I've spent countless hours in front of their cage at the zoo.
#5 Mixed Drink Monday: The Fizzy Flamingo (Pub. June 2018)
We're going on a bit of a streak with a theme here! This is another one that was on the list last year too. Honestly, it's far from the best drink I've made for this on-going project. I was solely drawn to the name, and that the ingredient list wasn't too far out there. But I'll take the blog traffic!
This one really is just from December traffic so I am glad that it was pinned to reference again a year later! It also helped remind ME to make these (I was lost in wrapping 20 picture frames AND HAPPY ABOUT IT). Although, I couldn't, with multiple stops at multiple stores over multiple weeks, find fresh cranberries for the life of me so this became a Rasp-Apple Sangria for us this year. Not quite as festive but still delicious (we just finished it on New Year's Eve!)
See, THEME. Also, another one that was on the list last year too. Look at that pretty red color! Did this drink have limes??? I've made a lot of drinks and they can all blend together easily (not literally, I don't think you'd actually want to blend them all together). I DO remember liking this one, more than a straight Long Island which was SUPER strong as I made it so I'm pretty sure I made this less strong, alcohol wise. Which is probably why I liked it.
#2 {17} Books for a Fresh Start to a New Year (Pub. January 2019)
Don't we all especially need a fresh start this year? I LOVE the fresh start feeling at the start of every year and this year is no different. I definitely dive into reading more non-fiction after all fiction (besides some Advent devotionals) in December. It's a nice brain reset as we get back to real life! There's some (17!) books I really enjoyed on this list!
This post accounts for almost 10% of the blog traffic I've had over the life of this blog. It is BY FAR my most popular post ever (it has more than 4x's the hits as #2 on my all-time list). It multiplied by Amazon affiliate revenue by 6-7xs, thanks to the affiliate links in there. And, hopefully, helped a lot of people super clean their laundry! I haven't done this again yet, even though the 4 year old post I said I was going to do it again the next year. OOPS. (To be fair, a year later we had a newborn Sam and were about to embark on a trip to NYC with our parents and an 11 week old. And Sam's punitive father hadn't cleared. Nobody was sleeping enough. I HAD OTHER THINGS ON MY MIND.). I'm glad a lot of people did this during quarantine (it was the most popular from April - June) and maybe I'll finally get back to it myself! Also, I still have that striped shirt and Luke still has the robot blanket on his bed (even though he's too tall for it now).
Those were my most read posts in 2020! Maybe for 2021's list I can get a few more recent ones on there!
My 10 Most Popular Posts of 2019
My 10 Most Popular Posts of 2018
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