{Here from @Paula_Deen's wayward tweet? She meant to link here!!}
I've got a challenge for you: Can you choose your all-time favorite post? Not one of your favorites, not your top three, but Just. One.?
If you're like me, this is asking the near impossible.
Recently I submitted writing samples for an upcoming project (to be announced soon!!!), and I had to choose three posts. Apparently, I'm attached to many more than that, but I realized in re-reading a few, there are those that I r e a l l y l i k e; and there's one that takes me back to "the moment" every time I read it. I'm linking it here, and it's my favorite (today 😉 ).
I tweeted this question earlier today, then decided to post it here. **IF** you should accept this mission, I would love for you to link your One Favorite Post. It would be awesome if you'd share this link with your readers (via your blog, Twitter, etc.) because I'm hoping we'll get a good response and discover a bunch of wonderful new bloggers in the process.
Soooo, are you up for the mission? I sure hope so…my goal is to stumble and comment to everyone who links up!! {Be sure to click Mr. Linky below and register your PERMALINK not your blog URL. If you have questions about how to do that, check out detailed instructions at Blogging Basics 101.}
I love this post and I’ve gotten a lot of others who enjoyed it as well 🙂
http://www.jonese.us/post.cfm/coffee-oatmeal-great-sex-and-god
My favorite post has very few words – but announced that my husband and I eloped in Las Vegas! We’ve been married two years last month.
This one is 2 1/2 years old (and contains no pictures!). It originally imported in from my old blog, and try as I might I can’t get the spacing fixed, so just ignore that:
http://myhomesweethomeonline.net/2007/02/06/the-greatest-job-in-the-world/
Not a long history (yet) to choose from, but this one is at the heart of what I am constantly trying to communicate to anyone who will listen: http://mikeraburn.wordpress.com/2009/05/08/god-is-speaking-to-you/
Thanks Robin! How fun.
I think there SHOULD be a prize for my humiliating tale. My goodness.
AND My family is from TN also, so I can relate to your Southern post. Beautifully written!
Now I live in Okie land…Redneck central! 🙂
Wow. That IS hard. I think I’m going with a recent post because it seemed to hit home with people, and it best expresses the fact that we can have joy in every instance of our lives if we just remember to choose it.
http://gitzengirl.blogspot.com/2009/06/hdg-attitude-of-joy.html
I linked but Mr. Linky seems to be persnickity today.
Just in case:
http://headlessfamily5.blogspot.com/2008/01/101-years-8-months-and-5-days.html
I think this will always be my favorite.
Great idea. And I agree, sometimes it’s hard to chose just one!
I enjoyed my visit here.
🙂
Cathy
Here’s the one I Tweeted you. It’s always the ones I don’t want to write that end up the best, I think.
http://www.vanderbiltwife.com/2009/02/i-think-this-officially-makes-me-mommy.html
I’m sorry Robin, I’m an idiot. I didn’t see your Mr. Linky and then I submitted my post again without realizing you had added it. DOH!
Thanks for hosting this “party”! Can’t wait to read the “best of the best”. Going to go tweet it now!
I recently started a new blog for novel writers, but one of my favorite posts is from an earlier (mostly dormant) short story blog. It’s a work of fiction called All That Glitters. Is it my very favoritist of all time? Well, how do you choose which child gets that honor, hmm?
I think my favorite post is one I wrote while I was adopting my oldest daughter from Guatemala. I went down to live with her and be her foster mom until the legal process was completed. I wrote tongue-in-cheek post with advice for those thinking about coming because so many asked me questions and much like becoming a mom for the first time there is little you can do to really prepare.
http://www.michellesmiles.com/?p=12024
Oh wow- this is harder to choose than I thought!
I found my way to your blog from one of your Compassion Blogger Teammates. I’ve enjoyed your blog ever since. 🙂
Lissa
http://reflectionsandmemories.blogspot.com/2009/04/celebrate.html
I am going to have to think about this one. 3 years of blogging is tons of posts. I’ll be back to put in mine on Mr. Linky!
I’m in the same boat, Robin. I’m trying to find my top/favorite/best/whatever three posts – and it’s sooooo hard!
Yep-I agree with everyone else-it’s hard to choose just one. What I love about blogging is how I can reread stuff months later and it takes me back to the special memories we created, what I was thinking/feeling at that time.
So it was actually a fun little exercise to scroll through the old posts!
Thanks Robin!
Well, phooey…I narrowed it down to three in a post last month. Now, you want just one? Doncha know I’m like a Lay’s potato chip (never can eat just one)? 😀
I agree it’s hard to pick one…but I have included one just for fun.
http://beautifulvisionofyou.blogspot.com/2009/03/wedding-rehearsal.html
This is fun, Robin! I’ve already been through a handful of posts by other bloggers and have found some real gems. Thanks for hosting this!
As any mom of teenage daughters will already know, it’s easy–EASY–to embarrass them. Sometimes we do that without even trying.
http://mylifeonthewildside.blogspot.com/2009/06/because-i-just-cant-seem-to-stop-myself.html
Well, it was a little hard to pick. I had a few that were neck-and-neck, but this one I wrote right before Christmas is still my fave, I guess. Seems a little out of place now, being in the midst of summer.
I put it in the Mr. Linky section, but here it is again just in case. Still learning here…
http://callwhenyougetthere.com/some-christmas-cheer/
O.K. I”m game. My blog is an art blog but I occasionally write a little more than just the thought behind the painting.
http://web.mac.com/kaycrain/site/Blog/Entries/2009/2/24_In_Memoriam-My_Mama.html
Just one? Argh! So many good writers out there, but I’m going to have to go with this one:
http://billycoffey.blogspot.com/2009/06/it-all-washes-away.html
Thanks for doing this, Robin.
Even though this post is about being too drunk and puking all over the place, it’s my favorite: http://rivetergirl.blogspot.com/2009/04/to-my-husband.html
Tough to choose. I really like my recent birth story, but that is oh so “mommy blogging”. So I dug into the archives and pulled out my phone interview with Google. That doesn’t come around too often in our circles. All through the interview, I kept thinking, I’m am SO going to blog this!
http://www.mommybytes.com/2007/06/google-interview.html
WOW – just one??? How do I pick???
Okay – I’m picking this one. For now. Ask me again some other day. =P
Things I Know Now That I’m a Mom
Great idea! Even though I’ve only been blogging for a year, this was still hard to chose just one post. But I did it. I’ve added mine to Mr Linky but here it is too in case it goes wonky…
http://werethosewrinklesthereyesterday.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-is-not-that-post.html
This really showed me that I need to blog more often! To write down the moments as they happen and go back to enjoy what God’s teaching me through life.
Posted this to my facebook page–maybe you’ll get more hits but alas, I’m not all that popular (lol) I joined FB for my family 😉 In fact my mom and dad got me to join–they’re in their mid-70’s OH!!! I just thought of my favorite post but it’s on their facebook page, so I’ll just have to explain it.
So, they’re new to all this internet lingo and stuff but they are using some of the acronyms. One of my aunts was having back surgery and so they put on her FB page–“Praying for you, love you, LOL!!!”
I told them about a family we were praying for and they said “we’ll be praying for the Name family as well, LOL!!”
Needless to say their interpretation of LOL was Lots of Love. How cute is that!!! LOL!!
(I paraphrased and maybe it was a different aunt who was sick, but still their LOL’s were so cute :p ) My dad refuses to use acronyms anymore 🙁 Bummer!
Great idea! Easier said than done for sure!!!
Great idea!
http://emilywithaheart.com/2008/05/16/note-to-my-sixteen-year-old-self/
I’m glad to find you and look forward to reading through people’s favorites. What a great idea you had here!
This is a clever idea. I’m in.
I’ve got a lot of great reading ahead, I just know it.
Much belated, but better late than never. This is a recent letter to my “big boy” as we prepare for the addition of a new “baby brother” this week. There is nothing closer to my heart than these words (although I wrote it at 1 a.m. and didn’t even check for grammar!). 🙂
http://sevenchicks.typepad.com/sevenchicks/2009/06/dear-punkin.html