Have you been writing any Christmas or holiday related posts lately? Or have you in the past? Don’t forget to link them up to our Comfy, Cozy Christmas/Holiday Link Up. By “our” I mean me and Erin from Still Life, With Cracker Crumbs.
The link party is open until the beginning of January and can include current or past posts about anything related to Christmas or other holidays celebrated this time of year.
Some ideas for blog posts:
Movies you’ve watched, are going to watch, think others should watch
Books you’re reading related to the holiday or winter season
Activities you’re doing/did
Trips you took
Traditions you hold this time of year
Favorite holiday songs
Recipes you’ve made.
You can save our graphic with a right click and share it in your posts and link to us if you want to let others know about the link party, but it is not required.
It’s that time again! It’s the time of the year when Erin (Still Life, With Cracker Crumbs) and I host the Comfy, Cozy Christmas Link Party.
This link up is open from Dec. 1 to January 5.
Posts you share don’t have to be specifically about Christmas. They can be about any holiday or celebration in the month of December and into New Year’s. They don’t have to be new posts either. They can be posts posted years ago even.
Some ideas for blog posts:
Movies you’ve watched, are going to watch, think others should watch
Books you’re reading related to the holiday or winter season
Activities you’re doing/did
Trips you took
Traditions you hold this time of year
Favorite holiday songs
Recipes you’ve made.
Etc.
Etc.
You can save our graphic with a right click and share it in your posts and link to us if you want to let others know about the link party, but it is not required.
Welcome to the A Good Book & A Cup of Tea (A Monthly Bookish Link Party)!! This link-up is for book and reading posts or anything related to books and reading (even movies based on books!).
1. For Bloggers, you can link unlimited posts related to books and reading. They can be older posts or newer posts. These can be posts about what you’re reading, book reviews, books you’ve added to your shelf, reading habits, what you’ve been reading, about trips to the bookstore, etc. You get the drift, I think :).
2. Link to a specific blog post (URL of a specific post, not just your website). Feel free to link up any older posts that may need some love and attention, too.
3. Please visit at least two other bloggers on this list and comment on their posts. Have fun! Interact! Get some book recommendations.
4. Readers can click the blue button below to visit blog posts.
5. If you add a link you are giving me permission to share and link back to your post(s).
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?
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:
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.
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!
