Celebrating the summer holidays - week three of six

It's Friday again, believe it or not, so time to celebrate all that's lovely and nice in the world. It doesn't matter how small or how big the celebration, if you've got something good to shout about you should be on the linky list for this hop to share it with the world. It never hurts to spread the happiness.

As always, the wonderful VikLit at Scribblings of an Aspiring Author is presiding over events, along with her co-hosts. Head over to see who else is celebrating this week.

Diana Wilder ... about myself, by myself ...

LG Keltner at Writing of the Edge

Katie at The Cyborg Mom

CaffeMaggieato at mscoffeehouse

Today, I'm celebrating:

• Enjoying time to myself to get back into some swimming. I've finally taken the plunge (ha ha!!!) and have started trying to get my body back into some kind of shape. I was lucky after this baby not to retain much of the weight, but I could still benefit from shifting some of it.

• I've lost 3lbs since starting to lose weight. Not much in a week but slow and steady does it, I want to keep it off once it's gone :-)

• We're half way through the summer holidays! Yippee!!!

How about you lovely people? Anything good to celebrate? Have a great weekend!

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Celebrating summer holidays- week two of six

Hello lovely bloggers! I'm a bit late getting to my celebration post today but I'm here and it's still Friday, so it still counts right?

We're now at the end of the second full week of the summer holidays, which means we're not far from half way. This week has been a bit more chilled out, and I haven't spent as much money as last week. Good job really, the holidays are expensive!

Anyway, time to celebrate the small things with VikLit over at Scribblings of an Aspiring Author and her co-hosts. Head over to these lovely gals to check out who else is celebrating this week.

Diana Wilder ... about myself, by myself ...

LG Keltner at Writing of the Edge

Katie at The Cyborg Mom

CaffeMaggieato at mscoffeehouse

Today, I'm celebrating: 
 

• My husbands new car. Even though it's three years old it drives like it's new, so huge thanks to the previous owner for looking after it so well. I'm not allowed to have a new car this year so I have to drive around in his and pretend it's mine :-)

• Making a dent in all of the old blog posts I'm trying to catch up with. I finally feel like I'm getting back into it all now.

• The arrival of my new Galaxy tablet. It's made it a lot easier to access all the things I like to on the internet, and is largely the reason why I'm so caught up now. I can sit in the living room in more comfort while I browse through all my bloggy stuff. Wonderful!

 

Have a great weekend everyone! I hope the weather is better for you than it's supposed to be for us!

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Back to the celebrations!

Hello all, and happy Friday!

It's been a little while (ahem, two months) since I've joined in the Friday celebrations blog hop, and my apologies to VikLit for being away for so long. She does a wonderful job, along with her co-hosts, of spreading the celebrations around for everyone to enjoy. 

 

Please go and visit the co-hosts if you can, where you can also find the linky list and see what all the rest of us are celebrating:

VikLit at Scribblings of an Aspiring Author

Diana Wilder ... about myself, by myself ...

LG Keltner at Writing of the Edge

Katie at The Cyborg Mom

CaffeMaggieato at mscoffeehouse

Today, I'm celebrating:

• making more progress in getting back into my bloggy schedule. This blog hop is one more step towards doing that.

• settling into being a family of four. After six years of just the three of us it's been weird having another little person in the house.

• my seven week old has started smiling a lot more, and making those adorable little baby noises which means she's happy. She's finding her voice, which she'll need living with her big sister!

What have you got to celebrate this week? Please do share and help spread the happiness.

Have a great weekend everyone!

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Last day celebrations!!!

 

It's Friday, and the A-Z Challenge is over which means normal blogging duties will slowly be getting back to normal.
So it's time to celebrate something today with VikLit at Scribblings of an Aspiring Author and all the lovelies currently on her linky list.

It can be anything you like, as small or significant as you fancy. Everything counts, and it all helps to spread the joy of whatever we've all been up to.

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Today I'm celebrating it being my last day at work, yippee!

In three weeks time my new baby is due, and I'm not sure how I've lasted this long to be honest. I'm tired a lot and I just ache everywhere! I don't know if they're hangovers from my daughter, but I'm sure it's all a lot more uncomfortable than the last time.

I have two weeks to myself now when little one's at school so, providing this one doesn't make an early appearance, I will be able to put some focus into some actual writing time. I can't remember the last time I got to do that.

I'm just excited to be able to live the life of a writer (whatever that means anyway) for a few months before having to go back to the boring grind of my actual job.

What are you celebrating today? Any plans for the weekend?

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Time to celebrate!!!

It's Friday, which means only one thing: it's time to celebrate the small things with VikLit! This is a great opportunity to celebrate even the smallest of victories you may have achieved in the last week.

 

 

 

I have one main thing I'd like to celebrate with you all this week, and it's something that should go a long way to explaining my absence over the last few weeks.

As of today I am 15 weeks pregnant, and this is the first week that I've started feeling anything approaching normal. I still feel totally exhausted when I get home from work but the sickness is subsiding and I'm beginning to eat proper food again.

My writing itch is also beginning to make itself known, and it's getting easier to concentrate on creative things again. I'm going to be back into it soon but want to keep the stress down as much as I can, and try and enjoy it much more.

I'm looking forward to being able to leave my main work behind for a few months and to concentrate more fully on my family and my writing, the two things that are most important to me at the moment.

How has your week been? Anything to celebrate?

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It's Friday! Yippee!!!

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This post is part of the 'Celebrate the Small Things' blog hop hosted by VikLit, and is for celebrating even the smallest of victories during the week. Head on over to her blog to check out more people taking part in this hop, and to sign up yourself too.

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This week I'm celebrating:

• Having the internet back! I've felt a bit lost and out of the loop without it, I'm still catching up on my bloggy stuff.

• I'm halfway through my two week holiday. It took until yesterday to feel properly chilled out though so I'm glad of another week to enjoy it.

• Most of yesterday was spent reading, reading, reading! I'm reading a wonderful book that has really touched me, and I might just finish it today. It's so nice to have some quality time with myself and a good book.

What are you celebrating this week?

Have a great weekend!

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Friday Celebrations! - 28th June

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This post is part of the 'Celebrate the Small Things' blog hop hosted by VikLit, and is for celebrating even the smallest of victories during the week. Head on over to her blog to check out more people taking part in this hop, and to sign up yourself too.

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This week I'm celebrating:

• My parents have just picked my daughter up and have her until Sunday. Woohoo! We have a wedding tomorrow and so are enjoying a child-free weekend. Don't get me wrong, I love her to bits, but it is nice to have some time off!
• I managed to sit for a solid hour yesterday and get some planning done for my Camp NaNo project. I don't know quite how I managed it, but I'm hoping I'll be able to do it again.
• I managed to write half of a short story while sitting through a three hour science seminar (ssshh, don't tell anyone ;-)). I didn't think I'd get any time to start it, but now it's progressing I'll push to get it finished this weekend.

How about you? How has your week been?

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It's F-F-F-Friday!

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This post is part of the 'Celebrate the Small Things' blog hop hosted by VikLit, and is for celebrating even the smallest of victories during the week. Head on over to her blog to check out more people taking part in this hop, and to sign up yourself too.

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 This week I'm celebrating:

• I'm just glad to get through this week to be honest. I've been full of cold, waking up all bunged and I've been so tired my blog has been severely neglected.
• We've started a little book club at work. Our first read is The Great Gatsby, mostly because we want to read the book before seeing the film. I do hope the book club continues though, it sounds like lots of fun.
•  Star Trek Into Darkness is out! I'm so excited about seeing it but I'm having to wait until next Tuesday because my husband wants to see it and he's away in Edinburgh all weekend. I have been debating whether to sneak off to see it without him though, and then see it again on Tuesday! Is that too naughty?

Have a great weekend everybodies!

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Happy, Happy Friday!

              
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This post is part of the 'Celebrate the Small Things' blog hop hosted by VikLit, and is for celebrating even the smallest of victories during the week. Head on over to her blog to check out more people taking part in this hop, and to sign up yourself too.

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 This week I'm celebrating:

• Being just about half-way though the A-Z Blogging Challenge. Some days have been harder than others, and I'm kicking myself for not getting more organised with it. Nevermind, I'm still ploughing on.
• Making the decision to actually cut down my hours at work. I won't be starting my day quite so early now and hopefully that means I'll be less tired all of the time. Working full time, being a mother and a wife is hard work!
• The sun has been shining for at least three days in a row! Woohoo! 

I hope you all have had a good week too, here's to the weekend *cheers*!

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