The "Most" of 2013

I've seen several bloggers doing a list of "Most" posts for 2013 and decided I'd like to do one too.  I spent an hour last week going through my blog (it took longer than I expected because when I merged the two blogs earlier this fall, everything from the other blog migrated here too).  See the full link up list here.

So the list includes the post with the most clicks, the post with the most comments, the best picture, the hardest post to write, and my personal favorite.  I'd love it if the comments section included your favorite post!

The post with the most clicks turned out to be my We Can Do It!: Mid-Century Dressing post on dressing vintage.  It turned out to be a sort of sartortial manifesto, one I was pleased to be able to expand on further in my guest post later in the fall.  Both posts taught me a lot about outfit pictures, and how awkward they are!  (Or as Tasha put it, “see all the ways you figure out what to do with your hands in photographs.”)

A close second (by two clicks) was my Five Favorites: Look What I Made! Edition which actually included very little in the way of finished garments (I finished many more garments in the following weeks), but lots of in-progress photos.

The post with the most comments was tied between my 7QT: Quickety-Quick, Lickety-Split Edition and my post on Housekeeping and the Proverbs 31 Woman.

It was hard to choose a favorite photograph, as there were so many good ones of my children, but I think in the end, my favorite is from this Talking Tuesday post.

The hardest post to write was February's Once More Into the Breech, Dear Friends, where I discussed all the things I was struggling with.  I left it in draft mode for days, editing, deleting, rewriting, wondering if I should post it or not.  In the end I'm glad I did.  It is hard for me to show my soft underbelly, and the response was incredibly kind.

My personal favorite was also hard to pick, and I really had six that stood out to me:

1. The first installment of Redemption.  I've written a bit more since then, but I've not worked with the story since late summer.

2. No Place Like Home, a reflection on Rod Dreher's Little Way of Ruthie Leming

3. A follow up piece to #2: Trying to Find the Way to Home, a reflection on time and cultural narrative

4. Talking Tuesday: Thorton Wilder

5. O Brayer, Where Art Thou? --my brayer samples for my April class.  I'm so pleased with how they came out.

6. 7QT: 7 Things I've Learned About Childcare, written two months after we radically changed our approach to childcare.

I'm looking forward to writing in 2014!  I feel that I have a good blogging rhythm, and have several themes I'd like to flesh out next year, as well as continuing work on Redemption and perhaps something new.