OH What A HAPPY Day Link Party

Welcome to the Oh What a HAPPY Day Link Party!

Time to celebrate what is giving us JOY and making us HAPPY this week.  It is so easy to get bogged down and lost in the negative.  Let's take a moment and celebrate the positive.

This week I am happy to be partnering with
Datevitation and hosting a great giveaway!

Datevitation Review and GIVEAWAY

You can enter and read all about it here, plus get a coupon code!

I'd also like to thank all the lovely bloggers who joined up with us here for Oh HAPPY Day last time.  We had 67 links in total!  Congrats go out to Sarah @ Our Journey for having the most views last week.


Now onto the party! 

The rules for the party are pretty simple: 

Have fun and say HI to as many other party goers as possible.  =) 

If you would like to spread the word, please grab a button and put it on your blog.  If you are interested in being a co-host, then just let me know!   
 

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Datevitation Review and Giveaway - 2 Kindles or $200 Winner's Choice!

I have a great post for you today, sponsored by Datevitation!  

Datevitation is the web's first online platform to create a custom love coupon book. You pick the date activities and can customize them to your liking.  Once you are done creating your book, Datevitation will print it out and ship it to you.

The cool thing is that these dates are not just for romantic lovers. You can make a book for kids, or from kids to grandparents... really any combination you can come up with.

I made a date book for my little bear. I found their website easy to use and lovely. I think it took me all of 10 minutes to put my book together. It is really that easy. 

The library at Datevitation has over 350 date ideas, plus another 200 kid activities. There is something for everyone to enjoy. I will say too that the quality of the book is awesome! I was almost expecting a cheap little book, but it is very high quality and the printing is perfect. I will most definitely be ordering more of these in the future!

Books normally start at just $20 for a 5 coupon book. That is what I call a thoughtful yet economical gift.  As a special treat for my followers, you can use the code  ‘GROWING10’ for $10 off your purchase for the whole month of July.  That's half price! Gotta love it!

But that is not all I have for you today!  I am also partnering with Datevitation in their July Giveaway!

The more entries you can complete the greater your chances of winning this terrific prize!


a Rafflecopter giveaway



Good Luck!

Please note that although I was given a free Coupon Book to review, all the thoughts and ideas expressed in this post are my honest impressions of Datevitation and their product.

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Meditation Monday - Lead By Example

Happy Monday!  Here's to hoping this week goes better than last week, although all things considered last week was really not that bad.  A bit painful with my foot, but it could have been worse.  I am healing and we even managed to have some fun, I'll take that any weekend.

This week our image for mediation is:

Pinterest Source

We have all heard it again and again, Actions Speak Louder than Words.  How we act, how we carry ourselves through this life is what people remember.  

I can tell my son again and again that drinking water is better than juice, but if all he ever sees me drinking water why should he?  The same holds true for being kind and honest.  The best way for me to teach him how to be the person I want him to be is to show him.  

This week I am going to focus on leading by example, for both my son and for me!  

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52 Weeks of Kindness

TGIF!  This has been a long week.  On Tuesday I had a treatment to remove a planters wart on my foot.  By Wednesday that spot was infected and I got to spend the afternoon in the ER.  Thankfully the oral antibiotics are working.  Plus my hubs has been off of work since Wednesday for the holiday.  So he's been able to do all the cooking, cleaning, and shopping!  I'm his act of kindness this week!  

My other act of kindness was to buy a scratch off lottery ticket at Meijers the other day.  Then I left the ticket in a shopping cart.  Hopefully the person who found it won something!  =)



Also, don't forget to head over to My Three Bittles to see how Amber did with her 52 Weeks project today!

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Oh What A HAPPY Day Link Party

Welcome to the Oh What a HAPPY Day Link Party!

Time to celebrate what is giving us JOY and making us HAPPY this week.  It is so easy to get bogged down and lost in the negative.  Let's take a moment and celebrate the positive.

This week I am happy to be with my family to celebrate the Fourth of July.  My father in law is coming down to spend the holiday with us.  It should be fun - filled with fireworks, parades, and yummy food!

It would not be the 4th with out a reminder of all the great men and women in our military.  If you have time, check out July's Charity of the Month, Desert Angel.  Their mission is to brighten the days of our soldiers!

I'd also like to thank all the lovely bloggers who joined up with us here for Oh HAPPY Day last time.  We had 64 links in total!  Congrats go out to Tyson @ Uplifting Love for having the most views last week.


Now onto the party! 

The rules for the party are pretty simple: 

Have fun and say HI to as many other party goers as possible.  =) 

If you would like to spread the word, please grab a button and put it on your blog.  If you are interested in being a co-host, then just let me know!   
 

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July Charity of the Month - The Desert Angel

The Desert Angel

This month, in honor of the Fourth of July, I thought I would support a Charity that's main mission is to help out the troops serving and sacrificing for the Freedoms we will be celebrating:  The Desert Angel.

Desert Angel is a 100% volunteer organization
and wholly dependent on donations.  Their mission is to collect, pack, and mail needed items to our troops.  They also like to include words of encouragemnt as well as items for the soldiers to pass on to the kids and people of the land they are on.  In their own words they simply explain it as follows:

We show our Troops they are not forgotten in deeds, not just words. Changing our world, one box at a time ~  Making a difference!   

The Desert Angels

They complete this mission by mailing Miracle Boxes.  The boxes contain a variety of items, including socks, pocket foods, letters from home and "a whole lot of love".  Also in each Miracle Box we add a "Prayer Cloth" or "Pocket Flag" reminding our Troops, we are praying for them.

Sharing the Miracle Boxes

Please take a moment to check out the What you can do to help page.  There are lots of options available from simply sending money to packing your own box.


Each month I will donate $1 for the first 50 new followers to my blog to the current Charity of the Month.  You can follow in any way that you choose, simply pick an option.  If you already follow one way, feel free to add another:

The Desert Angel's mission is simply to spread joy and thanks to our deserving service men and women.  Let's see if we can join together to help them out this month!

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June Charity of the Month Wrap Up & 52 Weeks!

June's Charity of the Month was Feeding America.

Feeding America: Ways to Give

Feeding America is the nation's leading domestic hunger-relief charity.  Their food bank network supplies food to more than 37 million Americans.  They can only do this with our help and support!



With the CoM program, I donate $1 for the first 50 new followers to my blog to the current Charity of the Month.  You can follow in any way that you choose, simply pick an option.  If you already follow one way, feel free to add another:

This month I gained just over 100 new followers.  That translates to a $50 donation for Feeding America!  Thank you very much for your help and support. 

I think my donation this week counts for my Random Act of Kindness for Amber's 52 Weeks Project as well!  =)  Don't forget to head over to My Three Bittles to see what Amber did this week, as well as link up!

Check in on Monday for the July Charity of the Month info!

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Oh What A HAPPY Day Link Party!

Welcome to the Oh What a HAPPY Day Link Party!

Time to celebrate what is giving us JOY and making us HAPPY this week.  It is so easy to get bogged down and lost in the negative.  Let's take a moment and celebrate the positive.

This week I am happy to be back online.  We had some storms blow through on Monday night, which left us with no phone and also no internet for most of Tuesday.  Kind of makes it hard to work from home with out the internet.  When I called AT&T they said it would probably not be until THURSDAY before they could fix it!  Thankfully they got it back up after a few hours!

I'd also like to thank all the lovely bloggers who joined up with us here for Oh HAPPY Day last time.  We had 57 links in total!  Congrats go out to Crystal @ MommiFRIED for having the most views last week.


Now onto the party! 

The rules for the party are pretty simple: 

Have fun and say HI to as many other party goers as possible.  =) 

If you would like to spread the word, please grab a button and put it on your blog.  If you are interested in being a co-host, then just let me know!   
 



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Meditation Monday - I am what I am

This week's image for meditation is:

Pinterest Source

I am going to channel my inner Popeye this week.  Which in my head is always Robin Williams.  Seriously this movie came out in 1980, I can't be that old can I?  =)
 

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Any who, this week is all about accepting who I am.  We all spend so much time and energy trying to change things about ourselves.  Sometimes it is nice to just sit back and enjoy who you are.  

We all have our own gifts and talents.  Rather than trying to live up to some other person's model of how we should be, we need to embrace ourselves and who we are.  Accept yourself as is, and then simply strive to be the best possible version of you there is.  

I hope you all have a wonderful week!

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52 Weeks of Kindness

Happy Friday Everyone!

I am late in my post today.  It has just been one of those days I guess.  Nothing really serious, just could not seem to get to the computer and some quiet time to actually write this.  Here's hoping for a calmer weekend!  =)

This week my acts of kindness included a trip to Canada to see my Grandparents.  Which sounds like a big trip, but being from the Metro Detroit area, it is not as extensive as it seems.  Just a hop across the river really.  Well for us it entailed a four hour drive to Detroit, and then the trip across the river.  


It was a long day, my nerves were shot, but I still managed to work up the excitement for little bear as we went through the tunnel, and I explained the fact that we were no longer in America.  He was less than impressed and asked if were not in America, with Captain America, who was the super hero in Canada.  He did get a bit more excited when I told him that I was pretty sure Wolverine was Canadian.  Such a screw ball.

My other act of kindness was to take little bear to the park after school one day.  Again and easy kindness, but a fun one.  We are also going to camp out in the back yard tonight... as long as it does not rain on our fun! 

My kindness was all about my family this week.  How about you?  

Also, don't forget to head over to My Three Bittles to see how Amber did with her 52 Weeks project today!

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