Monthly Review Link-up!!

Well friends... I'm a party girl!  Tonight I'm co-hosting two parties!!!  That's right I'm running around mingling post to post :)  

I'm super excited to be co-hosting the Monthly Preview with Heather from The Frill of Life.  

Find three of your favorites from this October and link 'em up here!

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Wowza!!! I cannot believe how successful we were last month. 23 link ups and 574 views is fantastic for a first time linky! A special thanks to Lisa at The Squishable Baby for her help in promoting our link up and plastering it all over Twitter! You are the BEST!!! For those of you that don't know, Lisa co-hosts a Monday Mommy Blog Hop over at her sweet blog, so head over there Monday and join the fun!

Okay, friends, here's how this linky party works:

• Please grab a button below and post in your linked up posts or in your sidebar. This will help our linky grow and get YOU more views!
• Follow your host (that's me) and your co-host in one form or fashion.
• Link up to 3 posts from October only. OR link up one post with links to your October posts within that linked post.
• Check out at least two other links and leave some comment love! You never know what awesome people you might run into here!
• Give us a shout-out on Twitter using #MonthlyReviewLinkup and we'll be sure to see your posts!
• Check back next month to see if you're featured. We will feature four posts every month. If you are featured, feel free to grab a featured button and wear that baby with pride on your sidebar!
• If you'd like to co-host, email me!

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This month I'm super excited to welcome Mrs. AOK as my co-host. Mrs. AOK and I became bloggy friends a few months ago via the SITS Sharefest and I am so glad we did! The community that I've found through her is such a wonderfully supportive one. Mrs. AOK is a busy lady. So busy, in fact, that she is not only cohosting this linky today with me, but she's also hosting her weekly Sorry Not Sorry Social at her blog today so after you link up here, go over there and get social! I have seriously gained so many followers through the SNSS. Go spread the love!

 

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Let's do this!

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1. Creating a Blog Posting Schedule by Joan at Starting Over...Again
2. Roundup of Fall Crockpot Recipes by Courtney at What's Up with the Wilhelms
3. Issues in the Classroom for Grieving Kids by Joan at Restoral
4. Good Things About Being the Mother of a Disabled Child by Kerith at Brielle & Me

Be sure to grab a featured button ladies:

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Sorry, Not Sorry Social {#7}

Welcome to our 7TH Sorry, Not Sorry Social!! 

We are extremely thankful you are here, and over-the-top excited that you choose to come back week after week to linkup with us!! 

Our goal is to build new friendships and create a fun-loving bloggy community.  

We hope you will get social and what not.

Also, in order for this social to keep growing... we are asking you to spread the word.

#GottaHaveFriends

...Sorry Not Sorry....

Last week we were delighted to have our sweet friend Kaela from The Girl Who Blogs host with us.

This week we're excited to have Shannon from Mishmash Mama co-host with us

She is such a sweet woman/friend, make sure you follow her

Here->Bloglovin, Instagram, and Twitter

This week we also have our new friend Megan from 

The Patchwork Paisley co-hosting!

Mom, wife, middle school art teacher, and insatiable DIY addict. I love color, patterns, textures, and making things pretty. Self proclaimed queen of unfinished projects- I find it impossible to contain my creative energy and it is my goal inspire others to harness their own. I live to create, love, teach and learn and I blog about all of these thing over at ThePatchworkPaisley.com

Megan is super creative, you should go check her out 

here-> Bloglovin, Instagram, and Twitter

Now it's time to PARTY!!!

Please follow all four of your hostesses and at least 3-5 new friends-- it's a social, let's get mingling :)

If you'd like to grab our button that would be cool too! This week we're linking-up your Blog, Bloglovin, Instagram, and Twitter.

Don't forget to follow your hostesses....

Courtney 

@What's Up with the Wilhelms 

Bloglovin, Instagram, and Twitter

&  

Mrs. AOK @Mrs. AOK, a Work in Progress 

 Bloglovin, Instagram, and Twitter

Thanks for linking with us! 

XOXO

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Sorry, Not Sorry Social {#6}

Welcome to our 6TH Sorry, Not Sorry Social!! 

We are extremely thankful you are here, and over-the-top excited that you choose to come back week after week to linkup with us!! 

Our goal is to build new friendships and create a fun-loving bloggy community.  

We hope you will get social and what not.

Also, in order for this social to keep growing... we are asking you to spread the word.

#GottaHaveFriends

...Sorry Not Sorry....

Last week we were delighted to have our friend the wonderfully caffeinated domestic goddesses Miranda from @ The Involuntary Housewife co-host.

This week we're teaming up with the sweet and talented 

Kaela from The Girl Who Blogs.

Kaela's blog touches on family, life, faith, writing, motherhood, food, books, and life.

She is a beautiful writer, go check her out!!

Facebook, Pinterest, and Google+

Now it's time to PARTY!!!

Please follow all three of your hostesses and at least 3-5 new friends-- it's a social, let's get mingling :)

If you'd like to grab our button that would be cool too! This week we're linking-up your Blog, Facebook, Pinterest, and Google+

Don't forget to follow your hostesses....

    Courtney 

@What's Up with the Wilhelms 

Facebook, Google+, and Pinterest

&  

Mrs. AOK @Mrs. AOK, a Work in Progress 

Facebook, Google+, and Pinterest 

Thanks for linking with us! 

XOXO

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Mommy Monday Blog Hop {#10}

Welcome to the 

                                                
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Follow Brittnei: 

 Homemaking With Style

Twitter  Pinterest  Google+  Facebook  Stumbleupon

Follow Lisa: 

The Squishable Baby

Twitter  Pinterest  Google+  Facebook

Follow Mrs.AOK:

Mrs. AOK, A Work in Progress

Twitter  Pinterest  Google+  Facebook

Follow Mrs. Tee:

Mrs. Tee Love Life and Laughter

Twitter   Facebook  Pinterest  Instagram  Google+

Follow Lisa:  Chronically Content Twitter  Facebook  Pinterest  Google+
Follow Chan:  My life as a mum WE HOPE OUR US BLOGGERS ARE HAVING A NICE LABOR DAY WEEKEND!

Welcome to our Mommy Monday Blog Hop! Woot! Woot!  Let's get this Monday started with posts from all different subjects that come from, that's right, you guessed it, MOMS! 

Forget Rules! Let's outline some guidelines that should get us all more traffic: 

1)  Follow all your co-hosts.  :) We follow back! Leave a comment for us on the post and we will know you are a new follower.

2) If you want our button, feel free to grab it from up top!  Just remember, more buttons going up means more exposure for all of us! 

3)  Have you heard how dynamic Pinterest is for blog traffic?  Try to pin posts you like!  You can even start by pinning the linkup before and after yours! :)  THE CO-HOSTS PIN OUR FAVORITES HERE

4)  Follow and comment on at least 3 other blogs please!  Karma in the blog world is wonderful.  When you comment and let a blogger know you're following her, she is more likely to return the favor!

5) TWEET about the Blog Hop: 

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The Co-Hosts select Bloggers to be featured in the Mommy Monday Blogger Spotlight each week!  Maybe next week it will be YOU!  

Mommy Monday Blogger Spotlights this week are (drum roll please!): 

Melanie from Mommy Mentionables

Meg from The Patchwork Paisley

Deborah from Dial M for Moms: 

Have you been featured on the Mommy Monday Blog Hop?  Grab our button!

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SOCIAL MEDIA HASHTAG FOR THE BLOG HOP WILL BE: #mondayformoms

If you are interested in co-hosting future Mommy Monday Blog Hops starting in October, send me an email here: pacobesity@gmail.com  

To thank you all for linking with us this week, we're giving something away:

Set your kids on a lifetime love for learning.  Giselle Combines Yoga with excellent storytelling - and child will travel along on an amazing adventure.  Lots of yoga poses and activities promote relaxation, exercise, strength and literacy.  Enter to win your choice of Kids Yoga Stories.  Open World Wide!

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  Alright ladies, let's link up!  

Ask Away Friday {#3}

This is my third week of participating in the #AskAwayFriday linkup via The Real Housewife of Caroline County.  

What is Ask Away Friday?
A linkup where bloggers are encouraged to reach out to other bloggers to get to know them and swap 10 questions, and answer those questions on their blogs.  

This week I choose Miranda.

For the last month or two I have had the pleasure of getting to know Miranda from The Involuntary Housewife, we mainly stay on the most important topic---> COFFEE! 
Today we're getting off topic a bit and swapping 10 questions, below you will find my answers to her 10 questions, and you can find my questions to Miranda ->here.


1.  Since we bonded over virtual coffee I have to know...what is your favorite coffee drink?
Okay, I'm a Starbucks gal through and through, at home I drink 

But while frequenting my local Starbucks I may either pick up a Cinnamon Dulce Latte, Carmel Macchiato {iced or hot} but during the most beautiful time of the year....

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PSL Time is coming!!!! Oh, and for those of you who don't know that means Pumpkin Spice Latte time :)

2.  How do you find the balance between your personal blog and the writing you do for Tots to Teens? I don't.  I'm trying to though. Now, that my babies are all in school, I think I can finally find some kind of balance.  Ask me in about a month :)

3.  When you first started blogging, did you have a plan for where you wanted it to take you? Just wanted my Etsy shop to be seen. Yes, I had an Etsy shop too, but I don't anymore... there goes that balance again. 


4.  What is your favorite part of being a blogger? Connecting with other bloggers.  
Blogging has been quite a therapeutic experience for me; I love to write and share my thoughts, as well as meet new friends.  I'm thankful for all the wonderful people who have come into my life because of blogging. <3

5.  How is your life different from what you expected when you graduated from high school? 
Hmmm... my life is quite different, I thought for sure I would be a city girl working in a skyscraper for a magazine company.  I also thought there was also a chance I would be a teacher.  
In a way I've done both... I work for a magazine in my 2nd floor office, and I homeschooled {preschool} all three of my kiddos.

In the Back-to-School Mini Issue of Tots to Teens Magazine

6.  Now that the kids are back to school are you managing to get a little "me time" or are you focused on other things? 
I haven't had the luxury of 'me time' quite yet, I've been busy catching-up on things blog/T2T.

7.  I know you recently celebrated your anniversary (12 years, congratulations!).  What would be the one piece of advice that you would want to share with someone who was getting married?  
Communicate. You. Have. To. Talk! 
I'm thankful my husband and I moved away from both our families and friends our first year of marriage; I believe this situation helped strengthen our marriage.  We only had each other, we had to communicate, we couldn't run from our problems.... we dealt with things together.  We grew together two 2o-somethings with a new baby on the way :) talking late at night playing video games--

8.  Where is your favorite place to go when it is just you and the hubs? 
Well, we don't get out much... so... it sounds lame but we like to go out on our deck and relax... and... wait for it... TALK. There is usually a refreshment involved.

9.  In your "down time" do you prefer and good book or some quality time with the TV?  What is your favorite book/show?
I'd love to sound all academic-like but I enjoy watching trashy reality t.v. Am I the only one that feels better about my life after watching the Real Housewives? Those chicks make me even more grateful for my life.
Yes, I do enjoy curling up to a good book too! Check out The Rock and The River... great book!

10.  Who is your favorite bloggy buddy (I warn you, this is a loaded question and I have a specific answer in mind *Ahem*)? 
Ummm.. my favorite coffee-addicted bloggy buddy... Miranda! 
My bloggy BFF Courtney .  She is such an incredibly beautiful {inside and out} friend, and I'm extremely grateful she is in my life :) #lovefest


Thank you Miranda for swapping with me! Please go check out The Involuntary Housewife! XO