Thursday, November 8, 2012

When I grow up…


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Ok ya’ll….I actually resorted to using the writing prompt today (annnnddd I didn’t have it all written and scheduled to post first thing this morning). I know, I know…you guys are getting spoiled by me being all organized and all. I do have to say, I need to get this thing done and posted before the girl decides to wake up from her nap…yikes!

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The prompt for today was: “if you could have any job (and instantly have the training and qualifications to do it), which job would you want?”
 
 
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That is actually REALLY easy for me…my whole life I’ve worked in healthcare in some way, shape or form and I’ve known I wanted to ever since I was a little kid! Of course, when as a little kid I wanted to grow up to be a doctor…I think a lot of us did. However, my want of it was a little more specific…I wanted to be a pediatric surgeon or an ER doc. Yes, this was when I was a little kid. Needless to say life gets in the way and allllll those years of school are a near impossibility with little kids. That is unless you want to miss their younger years and I didn’t.
I’d still say with 100% certainty that if I could be a pediatric surgeon without all the years of schooling…I’d do it today (ok, I’d do it when Hailey starts school)!
 
 
 



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Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Wordless Wednesday - Not so wordless



I'm continuing with my daily posts for November....so my wordless wednesday isn't so wordless today.

All I gotta say is...who knew how much fun they could have with a felt mustache. It's kinda like when you were a kid and ended up playing with the boxes and wrapping paper more than the actual toy. I wish the kids toys today could still be that cheap.

Speaking of toys...we're only how many days away from Christmas?? Eghad!

Don't get me wrong I LOVE Christmas...I just need to get my booty in gear is all.

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Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Can we get a drum roll please??


 For those of you anxiously awaiting the winner announcement to my giveaway…you are in luck.
I actually posted it yesterday through the giveaway post/ Rafflecopter. However, 2 weeks ago is a looooong time to go digging through posts to find it. I figured I’d make it nice and easy by announcing it today….

Have I drawn the anticipation out enough for ya’ll?? (I feel like a game show host)

 
The lucky winner of the $25 Target gift card and the beautiful rag wreath is:

#1817 Nicole L.

I am sooooo excited for her….congrats Nicole!

 
 
I just wanted to take a second and thank each and every one of you for entering and being a part of this giveaway. All your comments and input made it even better.
 
 
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Monday, November 5, 2012

Rosie's 500 follower brew ha ha....AKA GIVEAWAY

Howdy Girls!
Yes, yes....I have another awesome giveaway for ya'll. I'm just trying to spread the love and help another fellow girly blogger out. Rosie over at Craftbotic Q is having a HUGE giveaway to celebrate hitting the 500 follower mark and she's wanting to show her appreciation. Some of us girls are helping her out!
Anissa

Craftbotic
A little note from Rosie:
My mum always said that a job wasn't worth doing unless it was done properly. Boy am I grateful for all of the super lovely blog friends who have helped me build a most awesome giveaway for all of you guys to celebrate reaching, and swiftly exceeding, 500 GFC followers.

It's quite simple my lovelies. Enter the prize packages you fancy winning (btw - that will be all of them!) and show my lovely prize donors some awesome Craftbotic love. Three giveaways are open world wide, while the others are USA only. Please make sure you live in the USA to enter the last two or I won't be able to give you any of the prizes. Then I would feel mean!
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The giveaway is open for one week starting at 9am (GMT) on Monday 5th November until 9am on Monday 12th November. Winners will be announced later that day. You will have 48 hours to acknowledge your prize win. Prizes are as stated and non-transferable.  New winners will be drawn for each prize pack if no response is given within 48 hours.

Prize One - From Rosie with Love!
$30 Credit to Sassy Lemonade Etsy shop (One of my favourites!)


Check out some of the gorgeous jewellery you could buy!
Tina Marie layered Bracelet Teal Ribbon, Rhinestones, & Pearls
Side Turquoise Star Dainty Bracelet On Sale
Lisa Loves her Chrysanthemums wrapped up in a Bow Necklace On Sale
a Rafflecopter giveaway
Yellow Prize Pack - Worldwide
Green Prize Pack - Worldwide
Pink Prize Pack - USA Only
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Sunday, November 4, 2012

The bathroom makeover update



YES…I am still working on the bathroom redo. If you have no idea what I'm talking about you can go here to see the before.
I’ve had a bunch of little projects that go along with it to get done before any paint hits the walls! I debated on revealing the mini projects as Pin It Monday posts, but decided that would clue ya’ll in on the final too much (I’m all about the suspense).  

With the mention of paint, I will show you these paint options…
 
 
YES, I know how do you pick just one out of all these great colors!
I did somehow manage to get it down to these three options and the fabric you see will be in there as well...
 
 
 
Fear not...there is more to come....SOON!
 
 



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Saturday, November 3, 2012

Halloween Recap


Mommy was SUPER excited about this Halloween…Hailey didn’t know what to expect so she was just excited to wear her Cinderella dress (The girl would wear that thing daily if I let her).

All I can say is …. fun was had by all! The girls didn’t want the night to end and it was like pulling teeth to get them to go home.

Hailey loved following the older girls up to the doors. She had to make sure at every door to do her own trick-or-treat and thank you!

Needless to say the girls eventually got impatient had to move on….so mommy was then going door to door with Hailey while daddy brought up the rear with the little wagon that could.

By the end of the night we were thanking Dan and Noel for the wagon…cause not only was Hailey in it, but my friend Ami’s little boy and her dog were in there too! We hauled our wagon load over to their house and had smores over a pit….can we say YUM—MY??

Obviously we wore the girls out cause by the time we got home. Hailey went to bed and didn’t move…she was immediately sacked out and Livie wasn’t far behind!

Hope everyone had as much fun as we did!



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Friday, November 2, 2012

Blogging for Bloggings sake!


The theme for November's NaBloPoMo is blogging for blogging's sake. What the heck is NaBloPoMo you say? It stands for National Blog Posting Month and is brought to you by BlogHer.

My goal over the next month is to post DAILY….yikes! I don’t know how the heck I’m going to do it, but I am. Thank goodness I like most of the prompts they provide (of course the first one I was like, how the heck am I a) gonna come up with a whole post for that and b) how could I pick just one!).

Soooo, this is everyone’s fair warning…if you see some bizarro post on here…YES it is still me (He, he just kidding...no bizarre stuff)! I’ll just be broadening my horizons a bit…it can’t hurt! You lucky folks get to learn all kinds of handy dandy things about me and the fam that you never thought possible. Woo hoo…


 
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Thursday, November 1, 2012

Blog Angel Final


This week we are wrapping up the month, enjoying the Halloween festivities and finishing up the Blog Angel project. Rosie @ Craftbotic Q is the brains and workhorse behind this whole Blog Angel thing and does an awesome job! I sooooo wouldn’t want to have to keep up with all those folks!

I do wish I had taken part in this at a time when all of us weren’t quite so busy with the holidays and all coming up. I know how hectic my life can be and some of my fellow bloggy girls are feeling the pinch as well.

Megan (from Memoirs of Megan) and I got off to a slow start for those reasons, but we’ve made up for it in record time! I just hope that my input has given her some ideas and a different perspective to help her out.

Megan’s main concerns were: How to gain followers, advertise, promote giveaways and then help in promoting her and Heather from Cookies for Breakfast ‘s new blog hop. It starts this week (Tuesday) and is called The Mommy Confessions. I think these concerns are ones that ALL of us have had at one point and time. I figured I could just copy one of my emails to Megan and it might help someone else that comes across it…This is what I said:

Hey Megan,

When I first started this thing, I literally had NO clue what I was doing. I would look at lots of fellow bloggers' sites and see what I liked and didn’t on each (this also included what each of them did to advertise and get followers. It's amazing to me all the girls that started at roughly the same time as I did and how far each of us has come! Personally, I've joined lots of hops (some weeks you won't get much of anything from and then others you'll get a ton). I don't know about you, but trying to remember which ones are on which days is the hardest thing! I constantly look for new hops with different people in them.

 I've done several button swaps (if you want to do that...I'm game). One of the biggest things is doing giveaways...I haven't invested much monetarily into my blog for this either. As for the design part of my blog, if I see something I want for my blog...I figure out how to do it myself! For promoting giveaways....I've done all of mine with a group of other bloggers. Twitter & Facebook are HUGE for advertising giveaways!

I would love to join up on your link on Tuesday...just send me an email when it goes live...or right before! I have a hard time keeping up with remembering all the bloggy stuff in addition to everyday life.

 I hope that was helpful...if you think of anything else...I'm just an email away!

Anissa

Aren’t ya’ll glad I don’t normally type this much in every post?? J
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