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My Top Five Read Blog Posts of 2020

I didn’t actually go back and count but I feel like I blogged less this year than any other year. Like most everyone, my surge capacity was depleted. It was a challenge just go tread water between work and keeping two humans alive.

Yet, I still wrote a few things. My blog had a 52% increase in year over year traffic oddly enough. Maybe there’s something to the saying “less is more.”

What were the top posts from this year? None of them had anything to do with marketing.

How Two Working Parents Are Working From Home With Two Toddlers During a Pandemic

I wrote this right at the start of shelter-in-place restrictions. It outlines the plans Megan and I laid out to survive the pandemic. This post surprisingly aged well.

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One Parenting Hack That Helped Us Survive WFH With Kids

Megan and I discovered that giving each other an afternoon off on the weekends pretty much saved our brains and sanity during the most stressful time in our parenting lives.

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What A Decade! The Good, The Bad and the "What...?"

This was written pre-pandemic on January 6, 2020. In the post, I write wishfully for things to slow down a bit. Man was I wrong - this decade kicked off more action packed than the previous 10 years.

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So Much Quarantine. So Little Time.

You’d think not being able to leave the house would give you a lot of down time to think, read, reflect…or binge TV. In our case, quarantine proved to be the busiest times of our lives. Weird, right?

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Buying and Selling A House During a Pandemic

We put an offer on a house one week before the whole world shut down. We put our house on the market and were committed. We had two toddlers at home, also working from home ourselves, full time. Yet we had to keep our house clean enough to sporadically give showings to on a moment’s notice. We did it.

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Hopefully my posts in 2021 will be a little more mundane…