Remodeling This Life

For some reason, I had thought I started this little old blog on November 17th, 2007. As I started digging to write this post, I realized that I am not ahead by writing it early, but I missed it by a few days. November 11th, 2007 I started this blog. It seems like forever ago. Many themes, many directions ago, here I am. This blog has definitely evolved over time, been remodeled if you will, along with me, my home, my life and my passions. I thank you so much for being here, for those that have been here since nearly the beginning and for those that will find me for the first time today. I never in my wildest dreams imagined that more than 2,000 people would be part of this blog. I don’t know who most of you are, but I am thankful for all of you. For the comments, the emails, the support, and for being here to make it fun.

Going backwards, the top posts ever on this blog are:

1. Do Your Kids a Favor By Saying No
2. Cottage Style Bathrooms
3. DIY Projects to Save Money at Home
4. Photo Tiles
5. Good Enough

Google and I don’t always agree on my best posts though, so here are a few not on this list and nowhere near the most popular, but are ones I personally like (and trust me, this is hard. Usually I don’t like anything I wrote more than a few weeks ago).

1. Finding Comfort
2. On Purpose
3. Let It Be
4. Letting Go of Perfection
5. Embracing This Imperfect Home

Many wonderful people have linked to this blog, sharing it with friends and readers on blogs, twitter, and facebook and it means so much to me.

The top referrers have been:

1. The Inspired Room
2. Nesting Place
3. Simple Mom
4. Small Notebook
5. On Simplicity

Last but not least, some wonderful women were sweet enough to let me blog crash and guest post for them, messing up their blogs and leaving them worse than I found them. The most recent of those are:

1. Easy DIY Wall Art For Kids at Living Locurto
2. Live Simply By Staying True To Yourself at Small Notebook
3. Find Contentment So You Can Find Financial Peace at Finance For a Freelance Life
4. Make Your Home Beautiful To You at Nesting Place
5. Perfectly Imperfect at The Inspired Room

There is so much more I could put here as a roundup of the past two years. I don’t want to bore you to pieces though. Suffice to say, thank you. For the inspiration, encouragement, friendships and fun. Life in this little fixer upper house and this simple little life wouldn’t be nearly as fun without this blog to keep me sane