Did I fix it?

So I'm still trying to get my side bar to reappear. I occurs to me that perhaps my blog is getting too big. So I've tried adjusting the amount of blogs on the first page and archiving the rest. I'm hoping this works. I can now see it not only in my preview of the template (I was able to always see it there), but now I can also see it when I view my blog from Blogger which is where I post from. That seems like it might work live. I'm crossing my fingers that it now works. I have missed my old blogs.