I enjoy year-end reflections and compilations. I’m always drawn to the People magazine year-end wrap-up edition and a good YouTube look back video. Today we get to turn that reflective lens to this blog. These are the 12 posts that accumulated the most page views during the calendar year beginning January 1, in order, most to least.
While I’m dreaming of one of my posts going completely viral on the internet, it’s interesting to see what ends up on this list. Like most things on the internet – “popular” doesn’t mean “best.” Some posts that made this list completely surprised me.
Here we go!
- 10 Unique Mother’s Day Gift Ideas for Seniors. When someone is in their golden years they have likely accumulated everything they could have wanted and more. Spaces for older adults can tend to be smaller, too. This post contains 10 unique ideas, many I gave as a gift to my mom or dad over the years.
- 20 Happy & Healthy Songs for your Workout Playlist. No surprise here – other than this one has little to do with caregiving. Music motivates me to move or escape from reality for a few minutes.
- Songs to inspire every family caregiver – Caregiver Anthems! Here’s the playlist curated just for family caregivers. Almost 40 songs on this list and I continue to add them as I find new ones.
- Celebrating Milestones While Social Distancing. This pandemic year has been full of many milestones for my family: my son’s high school graduation, my sister’s 60th birthday, my husband’s 50th birthday, and my daughter’s 21st birthday. We needed creative ways to celebrate!
- You Know You are a Caregiver When… With Caregiving, sometimes you just can’t make this sh*& up! We used to turn these off-the-wall occurrences into a game full of humor.
- Writing a Self-Care Plan or Your Own Care Instructions. We often take care of everyone else but don’t reflect on how to care for ourselves. Tips on how to write your own self-care plan.
- Do You Know How Amazing You Are? Happy National Caregivers Day! Bookmark this post for whenever you need a pick me up since it contains 11 affirmations for family caregivers and you can request the poster to print and hang where you can see it.
- My Favorite Podcasts for Family Caregivers. If you are only going to listen to one caregiving-focused podcast, I hope it’s mine. Listening to multiple? This list is a good place to start.
- Happy Healthy Caregiver Holiday Gift Guide 2020. I worked hard on this one to give you all some fresh gift ideas. Just because the holidays are over doesn’t mean there are not some great ideas in here for birthdays or just because.
- How to Identify and Create Boundaries while Caregiving. I believe establishing boundaries as a caregiver is essential and something I wished I had developed sooner in my caregiving journey.
- Thoughtful Gift Guide for Our Moms and Dads (that you can ship or deliver!) During this year when we saw our loved ones even less, we had to embrace technology and delivery so this year’s focus on Mother’s Day and Father’s Day gift ideas focused on ones we could easily ship or deliver.
- Social Distancing Self-Care BINGO. I enjoy a good game or challenge and love to award y’all prizes! I modified the Self-Care BINGO game to only include activities you could safely do during this pandemic year.
I’m planning my content calendar for 2021 during this next month. Let me know what kind of future posts you’d like to see on the blog.
