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The University program will include daily tasks assigned to help with blog design, increasing traffic, monetizing, organizing, …

This week, Bubba had a couple of days where he was really not feeling well. I think it’s been his teeth bothering him as he appears to be cutting a couple of i-teeth. Poor guy – I feel so bad for him. He didn’t want to eat, didn’t want to play – and he looked so miserable.
So, we took a day off of everything else… to do nothing but sit on the couch and cuddle as much as possible (aka. as much has our Baby Girl would let us). We …

Thanks so much to Savvy Blogging for the great twitter party tonight!  It was so good to see that I’m not the only blogger who struggles at times with learning the ropes!
It sounded like a lot of bloggers were interested in doing blog ad exchanges - my reason for setting up this linky is to accomodate that!
So, link up below – and while you’re at it, why not take a few minutes to click on some of the other links and leave some encouraging words for your fellow bloggers? 
We all know …

Like a Warm Cup of Coffee recently wrote a post about The Secret to Having More Energy.  She suggests making the time to do something that gets you excited.  I think this is great advice!  I’ve even seen in my own life that it really works.
It’s pretty easy to get worn down by the day-to-day routine.  I know that I’m to be:
- finding joy in all things
- doing all things without grumbling and complaining
- and doing all things to the best of my ability, as unto the Lord.
I’m not saying that …

Amy at Amy’s Finer Things posts a link-up on Fridays allowing others to share their “finer thing” for the week.  I love how she encourages I us to “stop and smell the roses” and really look at the good things in life.
This week, Amy says that she wants some snow – she can have some of ours as we’ve gotten a couple feet of the fluffy whiteness over the past couple of week!  If I could send it your way, Amy, I definitely would!
For me, I would have to say …

It’s that time of the year again – time for thinking about New Year’s resolutions.  Do you have any? 
I’ve been feeling a bit overwhelmed by everything that I would like to start changing so have been trying to prioritize where to begin.  There are several areas of my life that I would like to see improvement in.  So, I’m thinking about what I want to tackle in the upcoming year…
I have heard from several readers about wanting to be more organized – both around the house and in time management, …

I hope that your holidays are bright! 
Enjoy the season spent with your loved ones – I pray that the time is encouraging and a blessing to each of you!

Windy Acres Cottage posted the following quote and I thought it an encouraging one to share.

“Don’t waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour’s duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

The future for us, right now, seems pretty vague. We don’t know how long we’ll be in the house that we’re in, we don’t know what my husband’s future job will be, we don’t …