Calling All Pet Lover Bloggers! Loving Your Pet Giveaway Hop Sign Ups

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I will be participating in my first PET RELATED giveaway hop and I am **** SOOOOO EXCITED **** !!!

Two Little Cavaliers is hosting ~ and me and other bloggers will be giving away prizes worth AT LEAST $20. Who doesn’t LOVE LOVE LOVE FREE FREE FREE pet stuff??? I KNOW I DO!

Are you a fellow blogger who would like to join in? If so, head on over and SIGN UP!
It’s FREE to enter!

If you are an animal lover – HANG TIGHT for an awesome ride! (But you’ve got time…this will be in July.)

Super pumped!

Have a wonderfully blessed day!

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Giveaways! Linky ~ Link YOUR Giveaways!

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Here is todays Giveaways! Linky – link up your family friendly items!

I have one giveaways going on right now…click on the picture to go to the giveaway.

Summer Splash – enter to win a MODEST swimsuit (that is VERY pretty) and a SwimTrainer!

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Use the below to link up, then leave a comment. Also, go visit – and enter – some of the other participants giveaways! 

Have a wonderfully blessed day!

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Hearts At Home Blog Hop ~ How has being a mom changed you?

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I am proud to be a new Hearts at Home blogger! I am new to their website and have found great encouragement from it – therefore I am VERY HAPPY to start sharing it with you! The third Thursday of each month is our blog hop where we are given a topic to cover and share with our readers.

This month’s topic is: How has being a mom changed you? Oh my gosh – what a great topic to start with…but this could be a VERY LONG post! :) [But I'll try to keep it down. *grin*]

Honestly, I think a better / easier / shorter answered question would be, “How has being a mother NOT changed you?” I think EVERY SINGLE AREA of my life has been changed by being a mother. And not only am I a mother, but I am a mother of BOYS! :) (Like what do *I* know about boys???) In all truthfulness, I believe the Lord knew boys would be better for me (than girls), in many ways. The most important being they are showing me that not all men are bad – very important lesson. Additionally, I have always been a tomboy so it is easier for me to be with them than it would be for me to be with a girl, I think. I don’t like to shop – I mean I *really* don’t like to shop. And I don’t like pink. *wink*

Here are just a few of the things being a mom has changed about me:

  • I am not the most important thing anymore.
  • I have deeper feelings for any person than I ever thought possible.
  • I can get more frustrated than I ever thought possible. *grin*
  • Life is not as serious as I like to make it (just look at all the fun the kids are having!).
  • I realize a person CAN survive on little to no sleep. (Although others around her may disagree.)

Honestly, the thing being a mom has brought before me THE MOST – is that I have to be ON.MY.KNEES before the Lord EVERY.SINGLE.DAY asking for His guidance for these special lives He has given me to raise. I try to remember that they are just on loan to me from Him.

Have a wonderfully blessed day!

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Simple Woman’s Daybook ~ 5/15/12

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This post is linked to The Simple Woman’s Daybook

FOR TODAY

Outside my window…sunny, supposed to be close to 80 today, birds are singing.

I am thinking…I’m not yet ~ need.more.coffee. :)

I am thankful…for the produce co-op I found out about from some other homeschool friends. Last night was my first pick-up and WOO HOO! we were EXCITED! Definitely a blessing!

In the kitchen…attempting to figure out what to make for breakfast. Time is quickly running out before dh has to leave for work and yet I have NO ideas what to make.

I am wearing…bed pants and gray t-shirt with an American flag on it.

I am creating…forms for the attorney I work for from home.

I am going…NO WHERE TODAY (I pray).

I am wondering…what the Lord has in mind in so many areas of my life.

I am reading…I am doing an online study of Proverbs 31 with a small group. You can find the study over at Women Living Well. It just started yesterday so you can still join in if you’d like! Find a group close to you, or start your own!

I am hoping praying…for dh job this fall and many other prayers that are before us.

I am looking forward to…today is dh last work day for this school year. YAY!

I am learning…so much. The Lord is constantly growing me to be more like Him.

Around the house…fleas. I am SO VERY TIRED of fleas! This has been an ongoing problem since we moved in to this house! We use flea preventative but it doesn’t work and it is VERY frustrating (as that stuff is NOT cheap!). Although, I did recently find a new kind of stuff (and we always use “the real stuff” from the vet, not the “watered down stuff” from Walmart, etc) but this new stuff isn’t approved for cats (although our vet said other vets are saying it’s ok) so we may just have to get some of that for our cats too, as it does seem to be working on the dogs, and pray it doesn’t hurt the cats. The other problem appears to be our yard – the previous owners had about 15 or more Beagles and I think we are seeing the carry over from that. So, I need to check in to an affordable way for us to spray the yard. Did I mention I.HATE.FLEAS???

I am pondering…choices that need to be made. Again. We have to do this every year with dh job. I must admit, it is getting a little old.

A favorite quote for today…nothing is coming to mind, unforunately.

A few plans for the rest of the week: lunch with Grams tomorrow, work Thursday and Friday at the library, last Ultimate Frisbee Saturday for ds15, meeting Wednesday nite and Sunday.

A peek into my day (yesterday)...not too much actually. We were very unmotivated – and that’s ok – some days are like that. :)

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Have a wonderfully blessed day!

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Summer Splash Giveaway Hop #SummerSplash

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Welcome to Summer Splash hosted by Life With Two Boys, With Our Best, and Bella So Savvy!
This event begins on May 14, 2012 at 12:01am EST and will end on May 27, 2012 at 11:59pm EST.

Over 100 blogs have come together to bring you some amazing prizes to help you kick off your summer… with a SPLASH! Each blog is giving away at least $25 worth of prizes, plus we have an awesome grand prize for one very lucky winner. Be sure to hop along to each of the participating blogs because the more giveaways you enter, the more chances you have at winning the Grand Prize!

The giveaway I am offering comes from Becoming Apparel and is an amazing modest swimsuit called “Opal Faye Swimdress“. Retail $90! I also have a SwimTrainer to offer my winner! Retail $25. So your total prize is valued at $115! Enter using the rafflecopter form below…

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