Some Stats, No Awards

In every previous year, I've done an end-of-year list of awards followed by the blog stats.  The awards are really fun for me to do, but they are extremely time-consuming, as I have to go through each and every post and figure out it if qualifies for any of the awards, and then at the end, I have to pare everything down, format it, etc.  It takes hours and hours and hours.  This year, I've just been too busy to get to it.  So there are no awards.  It's possible I might at some point go back and do them later, but no one should be holding their breath.  

But, thanks to tagging and the information provided in the post list, it's not too hard for me to put together the stats.  So, as such, here are some stats:

Posts by Meghan:	217
Posts by Jason:	148

Last year there was a big difference like this, but I had way more, and there was a good reason: Meghan was pregnant and super sick.  But this year she's the one with way more.  As I have not been pregnant, as best I can tell, I'm not sure what my excuse is.  We did do several trips this year (Florida, Arkansas, Savannah / Hilton Head, and St. Louis) and she tends to do the posts for trips because she does it in half the time it would take me yet with twice the quality, so I think that was the biggest reason.  I also had my 8-day work trip to California which resulted in her posting nearly every day.  So combining those two things, it still probably doesn't explain it.  I'll just assume the remaining difference is because I'm a slacker.


Our new blog feature this year was Way Back Wednesday.  The idea was that since the kids are with Mom and Ron on Wednesdays, we might sometimes use that day to post old photos from before we had this blog.  We did that, although we ended up using it on other days as well.  Here is the breakdown on the frequency of days which had a Way Back Wednesday post:

Wednesday	8
Monday	3
Tuesday	3
Thursday	1

In each post we tag the people in it, as well as our own pets. Here’s the breakdown on the number of posts in which each person or furry friend appeared, among those who made at least two appearances. Ties are broken by the alphabet, not by how much we love you.

Joshua	191
Clara	158
Hannah	153
Jason	135
Meghan	91
Terrence	30
Natalie	21
Joanna	12
Julie	10
Ron	8
Andrew	7
Jim	7
Michelle	7
Tucker	7
Alex	6
Barb	6
Benjamin	6
Peg	6
Callie	5
Mark	5
Kirk	4
Deb	3
Eamonn	3
Jason K.	3
Nick	3
Vincent	3
Aiden	2
Bob	2
Brent	2
Carla	2
David	2
Jason H.	2
Jean	2
Matt	2
Nate	2
Sam	2
Tony	2

And as we've done the last couple years, this year we again tagged each post with the state where the picture was taken if it was somewhere other than Kansas, solely so I could do this exact list, because I’m curious about dumb things like this. Here’s the breakdown:

Kansas	319
Missouri	15
Florida	8
California	7
Arkansas	5
Minnesota	5
Georgia	4
Texas	4
South Carolina	3
Indiana	2
Nevada	2
Iowa	1
Kentucky	1
New Jersey	1
New York	1
Tennessee	1