Control the order of Blog Posts

Hello,

I have 2 questions:

1) How can I control the order of Blog Posts?

2) Is there a way to have regular page stuff on top of a blog page? For example, the page on my site called “My Take”…. I would like that to be on top of the page, and the blog underneath it. When I tried that, the blog was just the whole page. Is this sort of thing allowed?

Thanks for your help!