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Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot: Come Link Up With Us!

On By Lisa R. HowelerIn Weekend Traffic Jam3 Comments

Welcome to another Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot hosted by Marsha in the Middle, Melynda from Scratch Made Food & DYI Homemade Household, Sue from Women Living Well After 50, and me.  Look for the link party to go live on Thursdays at 9:30pm EDT. 

This is a blog link-up where we not only allow you to share your past posts but we encourage it. So share away!

This week our temps were beautiful where I live in the beginning of the week. Last night they dropped 20 degrees, reminding us yet again we are in autumn. So I am under a blanket as I putting the finishing touches on my blog post.

I hope the weather is lovely wherever you are.

This week’s most clicked post was:

|| Hurricane Helene September 27 ~ The Storm that Changed Asheville and WNC by A Blessed Homeschool Life ||

This is a hard post to read but it is a very important read to understand what really happened in N.C. and why that area was hit so fast and that it is even worse than what the news has shown (which honestly is very little in my opinion). Keep this family in your prayers.

And now my highlights:

|| How to Make Pumpkin Seeds by Real Food Blogger ||

|| Cozy October With Ageless Style by Amy’s Creative Pursuits ||

|| Sparks of Joy This Week by Women Living Well After 50 ||

I’m so glad you are here and participating in our weekly link-up of family-friendly, fun, educational, interesting, crafty, fashionable, and whatever else posts. I hope you’ll tell your followers about our post (feel free to copy and paste the graphic) and visit the blogs in the link-up. 

Now it is your turn to link up your favorite posts. They can be fashion, lifestyle, DIY, food, etc. All we ask is that they be family friendly. You can link up posts from last week or even from years ago. You can share up to three links each week.

We are always looking for additional hosts so let us know if you want to help out and we are also looking for more links from fashion bloggers so let your fashion bloggers know!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

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Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot: Come Link Up With Us!

On By Lisa R. HowelerIn everyday musings, Weekend Traffic Jam8 Comments

Welcome to another Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot hosted by Marsha in the Middle, Melynda from Scratch Made Food & DYI Homemade Household, Sue from Women Living Well After 50, and me.  Look for the link party to go live on Thursdays at 9:30pm EDT. 

This is a blog link-up where we not only allow you to share your past posts but we encourage it. So share away!

Remember when I was all like, “I can’t wait for fall weather! I want to cozy under my blankets and read a book!”

Yeah, well, fall weather is one thing. Winter-like weather in October is another. This past week our temps dropped close to the 30s and I was a bit shellshocked by it. Luckily I did have a warm blanket and a book to survive it and didn’t have to leave the house too much for any appointments or other events.

How is the weather where you are?

We had some great links this week for our link up. Did you get to check some of them out?

Here is our most clicked for the week:

|| Let’s Think Fall Table and Nosegay In the Den by Thrifting Wonderland ||

And here are my highlights for the week:

|| Bushels of Fun with Apple Volcanoes, Poison Apples and More by Our Grand Lives ||

|| Autumn Adventures in Somerset: Our Weekly Postcard by Deb’s World ||

|| September: A Month of Weddings by Fine Whatever Blog ||

I’m so glad you are here and participating in our weekly link-up of family-friendly, fun, educational, interesting, crafty, fashionable, and whatever else posts. I hope you’ll tell your followers about our post (feel free to copy and paste the graphic) and visit the blogs in the link-up. 

Now it is your turn to link up your favorite posts. They can be fashion, lifestyle, DIY, food, etc. All we ask is that they be family friendly. You can link up posts from last week or even from years ago. You can share up to three links each week.

We are always looking for additional hosts so let us know if you want to help out and we are also looking for more links from fashion bloggers so let your fashion bloggers know!

Also, please take the time to visit the other blogs on the link-up and meet some new bloggers!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

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Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot: Come Link Up With Us!

On By Lisa R. HowelerIn everyday musings15 Comments

Welcome to another Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot hosted by Marsha in the Middle, Melynda from Scratch Made Food & DYI Homemade Household, Sue from Women Living Well After 50, and me.  Look for the link party to go live on Thursdays at 9:30pm EDT. 

Holy hot weather this week for many of us in the U.S.! I hope you are all staying cool and calm wherever you are. Or warm if you are in the southern hemisphere.

My daughter and I have been locked in the house all week, partially because of the heat and partially because she has had a cold that is now getting better.

Our portable AC units (the only ones we can use because of our windows that open out) have barely been able to keep up with the heat but we’ve been managing okay. We’ve been drinking a lot of water and eat popsicles and even taking cold baths and showers to cool ourselves down and so far it is working.

The first time I have to leave the house this week is Friday when I have to take my son to his friend’s house for his friend’s birthday.

How have all of you who are dealing with the heat handling it?

I’m so glad you are here and taking part in our weekly link-up of family-friendly, fun, educational, interesting, crafty, fashionable, and whatever else posts. I hope you’ll tell your followers about our post (feel free to copy and paste the graphic) and visit the blogs in the link-up. I know I have met some very fun bloggers that way!



Now, on to our most clicked posts this week:


|| Standing on Tip Toes by A New Lens ||

|| Ghost Outfits Are Forever by Marsha in the Middle ||

And here are my three highlights for the week (again, it was hard to only pick three – I enjoyed so many of them so please go back last week and click through the posts. You are still able to do that, even if the party is closed.)

|| The Sacrifice of A Father by A New Lens ||

|| Warm Springs Ranch by Old Rock Farmhouse ||

|| Road Trippin In The Midwest Day One by Amy’s Creative Pursuits ||

Now it is your turn to link up your favorite posts. They can be fashion, lifestyle, DIY, food, etc. All we ask is that they be family-friendly. You can link up posts from last week or even from years ago. We are always looking for additional hosts so let us know if you want to help out and we are also looking for more links from fashion bloggers so let your fashion bloggers know!

Also, please take the time to visit the other blogs on the link-up and meet some new bloggers!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

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Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot May 16

On By Lisa R. HowelerIn Weekend Traffic Jam8 Comments

Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot May 16

Welcome to another Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot hosted by Marsha in the Middle, Melynda from Scratch Made Food & DYI Homemade Household, Sue from Women Living Well After 50, and me.  Look for the link party to go live on Thursdays at 9:30pm EDT. 

Yay for sun because that’s what we’ve been having lately in our little neck of the woods! I hope you have had some nice weather where you are as well.

I’m so glad you are here and taking part in our weekly link up of family friendly, fun, educational, interesting, crafty, fashionable, and whatever else posts. I hope you’ll tell your followers about our post (feel free to copy and paste the graphic) and visit the blogs in the link up. I know I have met some very fun bloggers that way!

On to our most clicked posts for this week:

The Herb Garden by Thrifting Wonderland and Garden Makeover by Thrifting Wonderland

And three that caught my eye this week:

|| Lake Life When the Lake Takes Over the Yard by Life Is Better Lakeside ||

|| Bonjour Noumea: It’s Been A While by Deb’s World ||

|| A grand x 2 insights from one grand to another by Our Grand Lives ||

Now it is your turn to link up your favorite posts. They can be fashion, lifestyle, DIY, food, etc. All we ask is that they be family-friendly. You can link up posts from last week or even from years ago.

Also, please take the time to visit the other blogs on the link-up and meet some new bloggers!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

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Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot April 18

On By Lisa R. HowelerIn Weekend Traffic Jam5 Comments

Welcome to another Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot hosted by Marsha in the Middle, Melynda from Scratch Made Food & DYI Homemade Household, Sue from Women Living Well After 50, and me.  Look for the link party to go live on Thursdays at 9:30pm EDT. 

This is a link up where you can link up your favorite recent posts.

I hope everyone had a good week this past week!

Here is our most clicked for the week.

Getting the Garden Ready by Thrifting Wonderland

And my highlights for this week:

|| We Project to Others the Image of Ourselves by Where the Wild Things Were ||

|| Saving the World from An Alien Invasion by Thistles and Kiwis ||

|| Just A Little Walk Seattle Style by Adventures in Weseland ||

Now it is your turn to link up your favorite posts. They can be fashion, lifestyle, DIY, food, etc. All we ask is that they be family-friendly. You can link up posts from last week or even from years ago.

Also, please take the time to visit the other blogs on the link-up and meet some new bloggers!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

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Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot April 11

On By Lisa R. HowelerIn everyday musings, Weekend Traffic Jam5 Comments

Welcome to another Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot hosted by Marsha in the Middle, Melynda from Scratch Made Food & DYI Homemade Household, Sue from Women Living Well After 50, and me.  Look for the link party to go live on Thursdays at 9:30pm EDT. 

Who of you had a chance to see the eclipse this week?

It was too cloudy for us so we watched it online.

Then we had one day of sun and the rest of the week was gloomy and depressing. That one day was glorious though. We sat on our front porch and read books and did our schoolwork.

Let’s get right to the most clicked posts for the week.

We had a three-way tie:

|| When Too Much Is What’s Been on Your Calendar by Where the Wild Things Are ||

|| What I’m Currently Loving, Looking Forward to, Buying, Planting, and…cleaning? by Me ||

|| Gathering Baskets by Thrifting Wonderland ||

And now three of my favorites (because I always have more than three, but usually only share three):

|| An Extra Chocolatey Treat for Easter and A Special Chicken by Deb’s World ||

|| Style Imitating Art: Four Women by Fernando Botero by Shelbee On the Edge ||

|| March On: A Month in the Life by Grace Filled Moments ||

Now it is your turn to link up your favorite posts. They can be fashion, lifestyle, DIY, food, etc. All we ask is that they be family-friendly. You can link up posts from last week or even from years ago.

Also, please take the time to visit the other blogs on the link-up and meet some new bloggers!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

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What I’m currently loving, looking forward to, buying, planting, and . . . cleaning?

On By Lisa R. HowelerIn currently, everyday musings13 Comments

I am joining Jennifer at All 4 Boys for Currently for April after seeing this on Erin’s blog at Still Life, With Cracker Crumbs. This is a feature held the first Wednesday of the month where you share what you are currently …well, whatever the themes are for that month. This month the theme is what we are currently loving, looking forward to, buying, planting, and cleaning.

Currently Loving

I am currently loving reading The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes to Little Miss, who is 9. I read this book in March for Middle Grade March and really enjoyed it but it is even more fun sharing it with my daughter. It is old fashioned, sure, since it was written in the 1940s but that doesn’t bother me at all. It has some super cute stories in it.

I am currently reading Little Miss the chapter where the main character Janey (she’s about 10) is trying to keep the “oldest inhabitant” safe. The oldest inhabitant is a 99-year-old Civil War veteran whom the town is anxious to celebrate the 100th birthday of and Janey makes friends with him in the beginning of the book. Throughout the book she works hard to protect him from any harm and the friendship grows. It is super sweet and adorable.

I am looking forward to reading the other books in the series soon.

Looking Forward To

I guess I could have used the above sentence for this. However, in addition to looking forward to reading the other Moffat books, I am also looking forward to warmer weather.

The last couple of weeks have been very cold, rainy, snowy, and dreary in our neck of the woods and I really need some sun.

Life has been a little down lately and I’m hopeful the sun might cheer me up a bit. That and the blooming flowers which will be pretty to look at even if they trigger my spring allergies. The neighbor has a few daffodils in their yard so that’s been nice to look at.

Buying

A new planner. I don’t know how I got into buying planners that go from July of one year to July of the next but I have and now I can’t seem to get myself unstuck so I am buying another planner this week so I can plan further out than July of this year. I used to buy these huge planners, but now I buy smaller ones that I can slide into my purse and carry around. Not so I can look at it and remember what I have to do, mind you. Just carry around and look like I’m organized, when I am totally not.

Planting

I should be planting plants or vegetables this month, but I’m not. Gardens, flowers, plants – they’re all failures for me usually. I kill them and sometimes they even toss themselves off shelves instead of letting me take them home with me where they know they will die anyhow.

Instead of living things, I am trying to plant some more faith this month. Faith and gratitude. I have been horribly depressed, bitter, and sad about the state of the world this week and I don’t want to be that person so I am taking advice from a book I am reading and doing the things I want the future me to do and that includes being more positive than negative. I have failed this week so pray I get better for the rest of the month.

Cleaning

I’m not cleaning the way I should be cleaning. I always seem to get wrapped up in other things – like writing blog posts or dealing with my daughter’s friend dramas.

It seems like I clean my living room and an hour later I clutter it again. Since our dishwasher died several months ago, I have been cleaning a lot of dishes and I will be doing that again today. I will also do my best to finish cleaning my daughter’s room and sliding a new sheet on her bed.

How about you? What are you loving, looking forward to, buying, planting, or cleaning currently?

Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot March 28

On By Lisa R. HowelerIn Weekend Traffic Jam3 Comments

Hello, blogging peeps! I hope you are all having a great week.

Welcome to another Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot hosted by Marsha in the Middle, Melynda from Scratch Made Food & DYI Homemade Household, Sue from Women Living Well After 50, and me.  Look for the link party to go live on Thursdays at 9:30pm EDT. 

Weather-wise it has been cold.

Family-wise things have been a bit hectic, but I’ll share more about that in my Saturday Afternoon Tea and Chat post.

Blog-wise I’ve been busy writing reviews of books and shows.

Writing-wise I have finished Cassie, which will release in August and have started brainstorming for the third Gladwynn book. I’ll announce a title for it at a later date.

Let’s get right to our most clicked post of the week:

|| Family History: Discovering a Surprise Ancestor by Women Living Well after 50 ||





And some highlights I picked from the posts this week:

|| Brookgreen Sculpture Garden by Thrifting Wonderland ||

I loved the art in this one but also the information about the artists and the birds. It was a very relaxing post for me after a hectic week.

|| Easter Hutch in Dining Room by Debbie Dabble Blog ||

I always love Debbie’s decorations and how she pays attention to detail and focuses on that detail for us in case we miss it while looking at the photos. These setups must take a very long time and her patience to create them always impresses me.

|| Joy Comes in the Morning by Becoming His Tapestry ||

I always love Brenda’s inspirational messages.

I really loved this sentence: Then we look up, not into the eyes of our friends and family, but into the precious Word of God and realize that spring is here, not because it’s actually spring, but it begins to feel like spring because we’ve allowed ourselves to be comforted by the Word of God and His Spirit. 

Now it is your turn to link up your favorite posts. They can be fashion, lifestyle, DIY, food, etc. All we ask is that they be family-friendly. You can link up posts from last week or even from years ago.

Also, please take the time to visit the other blogs on the link-up and meet some new bloggers!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

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Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot: March 14

On By Lisa R. HowelerIn Weekend Traffic Jam8 Comments

Hello, everyone! I hope you’ve had a wonderful week. Welcome back to our Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot.

Welcome to another Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot hosted by Marsha in the Middle, Melynda from Scratch Made Food & DYI Homemade Household, Sue from Women Living Well After 50, and me.  Look for the link party to go live on Thursdays at 9:30pm EDT. 

What a lovely week we had weather-wise. Today I spent part of the day at a park with my daughter and our friends and it was such a nice time.

Tomorrow our temperatures will go down about 20 degrees so I am glad we were able to get out today. I hope the weather was nice or will be nice soon where you are.

Let’s get right to our most clicked post for the week:

|| For the Love of Rabbits by Still Life, With Cracker Crumbs||

I find it hard to highlight only a few posts each week because I enjoy so many of them but here are four that I enjoyed:

|| Radio Plays: What I’ve Been Listening To by Where the Wild Things Were ||

|| Doolin Ireland: Arriving in County Clare by Life of 2 Snowbirds. ||

|| A Look Inside My Drawers and More by Debbie Dabble Blog ||

|| The Columbian Park Zoo Perfect and Small Zoo for Children

by Amy’s Creative Pursuits||

Now it is your turn to link up your favorite posts. They can be fashion, lifestyle, DIY, food, etc. All we ask is that they be family-friendly. You can link up posts from last week or even from years ago.

Also, please take the time to visit the other blogs on the link-up and meet some new bloggers!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

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