Top 10 Blog Posts of 2011

This has been a fantastic year for HWC! Earlier this week, one of my blog friends, Paula, listed her top 10 most popular blog posts of 2011.  I loved it, so I decided to borrow the idea.  The only difference is all the blog posts on this list were written within the final quarter of the year. The reason for this is the daily blog section of HWC wasn’t added until October (an exciting addition for us).  Before that time, it was an article-driven site and I only posted 1-2 articles per month.

Without further ado, here are the 10 most popular blog posts for 2011:

#10: God Bless That Man! - Ah, the adventures of learning how to cook.  My first experience with cooking for my husband took three trips to the grocery store, a mad search for a vegetable called prosciutto (I know, it’s meat…but I didn’t know that then) and a day that ended with a wonderful lamb & feta cheese lasagna but caused me to avoid the kitchen for the next 8 years. 

#9: Poem for My Husband - Excerpt from post: Marriage is what we make of it.  Our thoughts and words dictate so much of our life, (“As a man thinketh…”), and when we know that and begin to speak positive words about our marriage, life and husband, we find that what we have spoken turns out to be exactly what we have lived.

#8: I Missed! - This is one of my personal favorites because it was a huge lesson I learned in 2011.  Until this time, I thought I knew Keith’s “love language” and had been loving him based on that presumption.  It wasn’t until recently that I learned I was loving him the way I’d most like to be loved and it was time I learned how to speak his language…fluently.

#7: Simple Acronym for Marriage - Excerpt: In marriage, there is an acronym I’ve found to be the most effective in helping a couple grow in love, become more patient with each other and remove common frustrations within most relationships.  A.E.O.D: Accept Each Other’s Differences 

#6: How This Club Came to Be - Excerpt: [Keith] was laughing so hard, mainly because the thought was completely random and seemingly came out of nowhere.  He reasoned, not only was the name of the Club incredibly corny, but I also had a jam packed work schedule that barely allowed time to enjoy something as simple as a frozen yogurt.  Touché..

#5: Top 10 Marriage Blog of 2011 - Press Release: Stupendous Marriage, the online authority for marriage blog rankings, has released their 2011 list as voted by their readers. Nearly 2,000 readers cast their votes for the Top 10 Marriage Blogs on the web. Happy Wives Club claimed the #2 spot.

#4: Project Happily Ever After - Excerpt: There are certain things we have determined to do – intentionally – every day.  So in writing this post, I thought about things my husband, Keith, and I do daily. Without fail.  To continue on our path to Happily Ever After.  And here’s our Top 5. 

#3: Making Marriage a Priority – 5 simple ways to let your hubby know he’s priority #1 no matter how busy you may be.  Excerpt: One of the questions I’ve seen come up most over the past couple weeks, as the Christmas season has kicked into high gear, is how to keep one’s marriage and relationship a priority during the busiest time of the year.  It’s tough.  I can relate.

#2: What Are You Thankful For? - Although this post wasn’t tough to write, I certainly wondered if I was revealing too much.  I am an open book when it comes to my marriage which can be tricky at times because Keith is such a private person.  He loves this Club and loves the reason it was founded so he allows me to share alot more than he’d otherwise be comfortable revealing.  In this blog post I talk about our inability to conceive and what we’ve gained from this experience.

#1: Don’t Blink - My personal favorite blog post this year.  It’s the story of how and why I went from Los Angeles to Las Vegas and back in a matter of a few hours and why I was dancing in the car like a madwoman at 4am trying to stay awake.  I love this post…but then again, I’m definitely biased.

Thank you for visiting Happy Wives Club this year.  I truly appreciate each and every one of you and hope we’ve inspired you as much as you’ve inspired us.  This will be my final blog post for 2011.  I plan to take the next few days off to simply enjoy time with my hubby but look forward to chatting with January 2nd.

Happy New Year and as always…make it a great day! 

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Fawn Weaver

Founder at Happy Wives Club

Fawn Weaver is the USA Today® and New York Times® bestselling author of Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage, adopting the same name as the Club she founded in 2010. The Happy Wives Club community has grown to include more than 900,000 women in over 110 countries around the world. When she’s not blogging or working on her next project, she's happily doting over her husband of nearly eleven years, Keith.

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