The REAL Best Part of the last year! MY BOYS!!
Last month I wrote my One Year Anniversary post. At the time, I wanted to share my most frequently read posts with you…but in all the August work/FPIES madness never could find the time.
Recently I’ve had an incredible increase in readership, so I thought I’d help my new readers out with a “Best Of” collection from the first 13 months of this blog. (Welcome, new readers! So glad you’re here!)
So here it is: the most read posts collection!
Top Ten Recipes
- Cilantro Lime Crockpot Chicken
- Chicken and Rice Casserole
- Banana-Quinoa Breakfast Bake
- Banana Quinoa Pancakes
- Crispy Butter Candy Bars
- Coconut Milk Vanilla Ice Cream with Homemade Magic Shell Topping
- Dairy and Fructose Free Chocolate Easter Bunnies
- Blueberry Muffins (Vegan, GF, Fructose Free with Glaze)
- Quinoa Pasta Noodles
- Homemade Breakfast Sausage
However, there is one recipe I have that is the base of three different recipes with only minor modifications. If I combine the page views on those three recipes, my Vegan Cheese Sauce wins the number one most viewed recipe slot by a landslide!
Here are the three ways I’ve used that recipe base:
Recipes aren’t the only things I write, of course! Here are the most read non-recipe posts from the last 13 months.
Top 10 Non-Recipe Posts
- Is Vanilla Fructose Free?
- FPIES Eyes
- FPIES Children with NO Safe Foods
- Focus on Fructose
- What Causes FPIES?
- *WE* Have FPIES Eyes
- A Tale of Two Babies
- How Could an Accurate Diagnosis Still be So Inaccurate?
- Babies on a Plane
- Renee Moilanen’s “Dirty Laundry”
Many of those are absolutely some of my favorite posts, but some of my favorites didn’t make the list. They’re still worth sharing again, though, I think!
Tips on Traveling with Toddlers with Food Allergies – I especially liked this one because traveling is so challenging anyway; adding food allergies can be incredibly daunting! There are lots of things the general public isn’t aware of when it comes to traveling with food, and I shared some decent tips for making your vacation easier.
What’s in YOUR Olive Oil? – I wrote this back in February and still see new posts being written about this subject all the time! I’m glad there are still posts being written about it; this is an important thing to know if you’re dealing with food allergies!
My Path to Motherhood and a Big Reveal! – It was SUCH an honor to be selected to write for Megan at The Happiest Home! I’m still a little tingly over this! It was momentous for me because this was when I decided to “come out” and stop using pseudonyms for my family.
Tips to Thrive for Parents of Children with Special Needs – writing this was cathartic for me; putting down on paper the ways to handle the stresses of raising children with any sort of special needs made me truly sort out what works for me in coping. Even better was the fact that I was able to help other Mama’s out there who were struggling.
A Lesson in Fructose and Sweet Onions – This one is only a week old, and I’ve already gotten amazing feedback from it! This post really resonated with a lot of people, which thrills me to no end. Furthermore, this is the moment when I realized how fructose malabsorption had completely changed my trajectory 20 years ago – without my even knowing it until now!
A Healthy Baby – I just want my boys to be in my arms to LOVE with all my heart. Period.
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One other interesting thing a blog keeps track of are the search terms that people use to find you. Most of the search terms for this blog were pretty straight-forward, but I got a chuckle out of some of them. Here they are, with my thoughts in parenthesis:
- I hate doctors (you and me both, sista!)
- boys butts (ew – perv!)
- cootie bug (I imagine some 4th grader Googling how to give ‘cootie shots’ at school)
- I hate food allergies (again, right there with ya!)
- torture draws/torture drawing (hmm…I think these people – yes, plural – were highly disappointed in finding my blog!)
- big girl panties (again…ew – perv!)
- photo of how much food you get when butchering a cow (highly specific, huh? I hope these people – yes, again, plural – were helped by my photo!)
- is it bad to eat a whole bag of beef jerky in one sitting (Sorry, but I’m basically ROFLMAO over this one! I don’t even know where to begin commenting!)
And then there were a couple of sad ones that sobered me up in a heartbeat:
- Can a child with FPIES live a normal life (Yes…sort of.)
- Do children die from FPIES (four people searched for that and wound up on my blog. My heart aches for the fear those four people must have been experiencing! I wish I could reach out and give them huge hugs and reassure them that everything is going to be okay. If that was you, HUGS, darlin’! It’ll be okay! Somebody hand me a tissue, please.)
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Anyway, it’s a little late but there you have it: my top ten posts (by category). Thank you for sharing our journey this year; if not for you, I wouldn’t still be here writing. I’m looking forward to some big things planned for the next year of Cradle Rocking Mama!
LOVE YOU ALL!!
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By the way, did you notice our awesome cool t-shirts in the picture? They are an FPIES Foundation exclusive fundraiser t-shirt! Get one for yourself and your family and support a great cause by clicking here!
