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.
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!
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.)
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!
I did what I normally do (homeschool, cooking dinner, working on my book) but made a little extra time for reading. Today it is very, very cold in our neck of the woods. We went from 60 degrees yesterday to 26 today with a windchill of 15. What brought that cold air in was heavy rain and wind all day yesterday and my dad and I drove in it for me to get my eyes checked and him to have his taxes done. Good times. We made it safely home, unlike a car that we saw up on an embankment on our way home, however.
How was your week?
Let’s move on to the most clicked post for this week and a few of my favorites:
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!
What: Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot – a chance for bloggers to link up their posts that are related to fashion, DIY, food, and anything else that is family-friendly.
When: The link goes live Thursday nights at 9:30 PM EST/United States time.
Why: To connect with other bloggers and bring more traffic to your own blog.
My 9-year-old daughter wanted me to read my book—Gladwynn Grant Gets Her Footing to her a couple of months ago and then again this weekend. Since it is a very clean book, even with the mystery element, I started to read it to her. I didn’t think she’d be interested but she asked me to keep reading so I did.
This week she asked if she could use my old Kindle and she downloaded my book and began to read it on her own. I thought she’d get bored fairly fast but 20 minutes in she ran to me from where she’d been sitting on the couch in the dining room and declared, “I just got to Lucinda and I love her. She is my favorite character.” She then quoted something Lucinda had said and, in the most adult way, said “She is heeelarious.”
I can’t lie – the whole situation made me weepy. I imagined other people reading my book and enjoying it and always thought that would be so amazing but I never thought about how amazing it would be to have my own family like what I write.
Some might say that it is normal to have family and friends say they like what you have written, but I have not had one friend from high school, college, or in my adult years read my books or say one thing about them to me over the last five years I have been writing.
I have not been able to gush with them over my characters like I hoped I would be able to.
My mom and my husband have both read my books so I can gush a little with them, luckily.
My daughter is only 9 and I really didn’t think about her reading my books or even caring about them, but I am grateful that my books are clean so she can read them and not be shown things she shouldn’t be shown or exposed to at her age.
My dad is not a reader but he has now read both of my Gladwynn Grant books. He literally took the time to read a couple of my chapters of my books each night and that means the world to me. If you could see me right now you would see me with tears in my eyes, knowing that my non-reader dad took the time out of his day to read my books and even left me a review on my Facebook. Dad has not always been a supporter, exactly, of me writing fiction so I was shocked when Mom said he was reading my book.
Dad felt like I needed to have traveled more and experienced more to be able to write fiction and he may be right in some ways, but his comments were somewhat discouraging to me when I started writing fiction for fun in 2018.
Here is the review my dad left me:
I am not much of a reader at all and very seldom read fiction and I watch very few movies.
Like who wants to read about something that is not . Lol Evidently a lot of people.
Anyway I got into the first Gladwyn mystery and found it intriguing and starting this one I find it more so.
Sometimes I think wow, I never knew that lol ; you see Gladwynn Grant,a mixture of intelligent, ditsy curious, and almost cunning, was my mother’s name.
Okay off to store a few more clues and along the way of the town theater find out what happened to Samantha.
Well, anyhow, I just thought I’d share all that today because it was on my mind as I started to write this post today.
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!
I haven’t done anything very exciting this week – other than the fact we hit a deer Saturday night while my husband was driving us back from a Christmas event in a little town about half an hour from us.
The car was driveable but our left headlight suffered some. Not sure what happened to the deer for sure. Also hoping our insurance will cover some repairs. We are getting an estimate done soon to find out.
Today we woke up to snow on the ground – more than I expected. I thought we were only getting a slushy mix but, nope, there was actual snow out there!
This is our first snowfall this year that actually stuck around more than an hour or so.
Our daughter loved playing in it with Zooma the Wonder Dog who absolutely loves snow.
On to our most clicked post for this week. But wait! We have two most clicked posts this week. We have a tie!
This was a beautiful post about what we can do with our time, our energy, and a limited budget to help bless others. It was also a reminder of the greatest gift anyone received on any Christmas – Jesus.
I hope you will leave a link to your favorite post from last week or an older post that needs some love on the linky below today.
