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Friendly Friday 2/18/11

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Welcome to Friendly Friday!

Remember, YOU can host the link list on your blog, too! Just get the InLinkz code get the InLinkz code and copy it directly into your post. The code is different every week, so be sure to get the new code when hosting Friendly Friday on your blog. Hosting the list is a great way to get even more traffic to your blog and make Friendly Friday more beneficial for everyone.

Thanks for joining the Friendly Friday celebration hosted by Christi at Frugal Novice, Xenia at Thanks, Mail Carrier and Charla at Healthy Home Blog! We invite you to join us every Friday to make more friends in blogville, get more blog followers and follow other great blogs out there.

To join in the Friendly Friday celebration, include your family-friendly link in our list, follow the hostesses in the first 3 spots and then start blog hopping! Visit other blogs on the list and comment to give them some blog love. Then take a minute to follow them through Google Friend Connect – this is a good way to keep up with other blogs, but also lets us show support to each other! Please DO NOT list your giveaways here, links must be to either your homepage or your Friday posting with your blog title. All others will be deleted.

When people comment on your blog and let you know they’re a part of Friendly Friday, return the favor and follow them back. This way everyone gets traffic and followers out of participating, and it’s a win-win situation. We would love for you to also grab our Friendly Friday button and post it on your blog and/or in a post – the more bloggers that find out about Friendly Friday and participate, the better!

Spotlight on Friendly Friday Followers! We love your participation and want to show it! In addition to gaining followers, each week we’ll select three blogs at random and will feature links and a write-up for those blogs in the content of next week’s Friendly Friday post. There are so many seriously wonderful blogs out there, and this will be a great way to highlight some of those each week. Say hello to the lucky chosen 3 for this week (and feel free to stop by and give them a little extra love):


If you are a fan of quality handmade products mixed with a little boutique flair, you won’t want to miss what Heidi creates and sells at Carlee’s Corner. By turning crocheting from a hobby into a passion, she now makes hats, headbands, accessories and adorable tutus for any occasion that are perfect for little princesses of any age. You can make a purchase right off of her blog or contact her with a special request and end up with exactly what you’re dreaming of – even use the promo code VIP at checkout and save 10% off!

Stacey at This Lil Piglet is a mom of 4 kids who were the inspiration for her shop, This Lil Piglet Boutique. Specializing in trendy and unique WAHM-made quality products, you’ll not only enjoy her store but her blog full of everything handmade, eco-friendly or green-related, as well as ideas for parenting, pregnancy and children. There’s something for everyone!

Combining life, love, laughs, homeschooling and two adorable boys makes for One Busy Chick. This multi-tasking mom will invite you in, offer you a latte and make you feel as though by reading her blog that you’re chatting with a good friend. From family tales to blog hopping to adorable pictures to tasty recipes, you just never know what you might find but you’ll always have fun.

 

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Conference & Three-Way Calling

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When our daughter was a teenager, she and her friends used three-way calling to their advantage.  She would call two friends who had three-way calling, and then each of them would call two people.  They would end up with their own conference calling.   Conference calling is used by people for various reasons.

Have you ever used three-way calling?  We haven’t in a long time, but when there’s a need to talk to family members about something, then it’s great.

Job Postings

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I’m very thankful to have the job that I have.  So many people are still looking for work and are checking out  job postings.  If they’re a nurse then they’re checking out the health care job postings.  If they’re a teacher then they’re checking out the teaching profession job postings.  The sad thing is there are so many people looking for jobs that it’s harder to find a job.  The key is persistence and diligence in looking for a job.  Don’t give up!

Buying Shoes Online

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There are a lot of people who buy shoes online, and there are a lot of sites that sell shoes such as mbt shoes.   Apparently, there’s a big market for that. I don’t know about you, but I’m hesitant to buy shoes without being able to try them on first.  Shoes that are tight and ones that let my foot slip to the end of the shoe bother my feet.  There must be a policy with online shoe sites that let’s you send them back if they don’t fit.  I’ll have to check that out sometime.

Tasty Tuesdays: Muzzie’s Brown Sugar “Icebox”Cookies

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This is a cookie recipe that my mother made many, many times when I was growing up.  We loved it!  My mother got it from my grandmother who the family lovingly called “Muzzie.”  One of her toddlers said Muzzie for Mother and she was called Muzzie as a term of endearment the rest of her life by family members and very close friends.

INGREDIENTS:

  • 2 eggs
  • 2 cups brown sugar
  • 3/4 cup butter
  • 1/2 teaspoon Cream of Tartar
  • 3 1/2 cups flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • Optional – 1 cup nuts

Cream the first 3 ingredients.  Mix all of the dry ingredients and add to the butter mixture.  Using waxed paper, make a long roll of the dough, about 2 inches in diameter, and wrap well in the waxed paper.  Chill well, slice and bake at 350 degrees. Bake 8-9 minutes for a soft cookie and 10-11 minutes for a crisper cookie.

The dough can be made a day or two (or longer) before you need to bake it. If it’s going to be kept several days, it would be good to store the dough in a large gallon size plastic bag after wrapping with wax paper. It’s interesting how people had slice and bake cookies decades ago!


Ads on Products

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We have several pens around the house that have advertising on them as well as several calendars.  Companies are pretty clever to put their ads on things people often use.  We don’t have any custom usb drives with advertising on them, but I know they make them.  Sometimes the products with ads on them can turn out to be pretty good.  One time we had a couple of pens from a hotel that lasted forever.  Those are the type I like to get, quality products!

Cell Phones

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Cell phones are such a big part of our lives nowadays.  If we go somewhere and don’t have our phone, we miss having it with us.  Do you think cell phones are used for texting even more than for talking?  I think they probably are.  It doesn’t matter what type of phone people have, whether it’s Atrix or some other brand, most people use it many times during the day to text or talk.  In fact, cell phones have even replaced some people’s home phones.  We definitely depend on them nowadays!

Rewarding Job

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I’ve been an elementary school teacher most of my life.  I have done a little in sales jobs, but what I really enjoy is teaching.  When I was a little girl, I would play like I was a teacher and would teach my stuffed animals.  In high school, I taught the toddler’s class at church.  It’s something that is a part of me, and I’m very thankful I have a job that is so rewarding!

Valentine’s Day Giveaway: “Fireproof

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This Valentine’s Day giveaway is dedicated to “love in marriage.” The theme song for my giveaway is not one from the “Fireproof” movie soundtrack, but this one:

“We’re dancing in the minefields, we’re sailing in the storms. And this is harder than we dreamed, but I believe that’s what the promise is for.”

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone!  To celebrate this day, I’m having a giveaway for the DVD “Fireproof.”  My theme for this giveaway is “Love in marriage.”  If you haven’t heard of “Fireproof,” it’s a great movie about saving a marriage that’s on the brink of divorce.  All hope seems lost for any chance to save the marriage, but through practicing an active love that meets the needs of the other person, the marriage in the movie was saved.  Not only was it saved, but it transformed into a beautiful relationship, deeper than ever before, because it was based on true, agape-type love.  This doesn’t just happen in movies.  I’ve read about real accounts of this happening, and I’ve seen it happen in the lives of two girlfriends of mine, one several years ago and the other, many years ago.  So what the movie portrays is not just a bunch of hype.  It’s real!

Even though marriage can be hard at times, a couple is in it together and can still “dance” even when times are stormy because of the agape love they have for each other and the commitment…the promise…they have made to each other.  But more importantly…the promise they have made before God.  So if you know someone who’s marriage is falling apart, maybe you could tell them about this giveaway, or you could enter the giveaway and give the DVD to them if you win.  Or maybe, like us, you really like the movie and would like to have your own copy of it.  Either way, here’s the scoop:

WIN IT:

Leave a comment.  (Be sure and leave an email address for me when it asks for one so that I can contact you if you win.)

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The Healthy Home Blog Valentine’s Day Giveaway runs from 2-14-11 until midnight CST 2-28-11.  It is open to all U.S. and Canadian residents.

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Menu Plan Monday 2-14-11

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Happy Valentine’s Day!

If you need a dessert for today but you’re hesitant to bake anything because, like me, you’re trying to lose the pounds gained from the recent holidays then you might want to try this low-carb, fat-free recipe:   Chocolate Bliss Cookies!

Here’s our menu:

Monday:  I’m not sure what we’re going to do.  Who knows, we might eat at Qdobas Mexican Food.  If you kiss the person you’re with while you’re at the register then it’s “Buy one entree, get one free.”  (no coupon needed)

Tuesday: Homemade Turkey & Vegetable Soup

Wednesday:  Leftover soup

Thursday: Chicken Broccoli Alfredo

Friday:  Leftover Chicken Broccoli Alfredo

Safe Driving

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Did you know that there are cutting edge, safe driving systems that have been created with an emphasize on safe driving behavior and creative technology?   One patented system monitors drivers and “mentors” them so they can learn to reduce speeding and aggressive driving.   It also monitors seat belt habits to encourage drivers to always wear their seat belt so they will be in compliance with the law.

Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) is the safety program used by FMCSA to encourage safer driving by large trucks and buses.  It focuses on seven major behaviors that cause crashes.  CSA 2010 is such a program.  Being a solution oriented global leader, inthinc is devoted to improving safer driving behaviors with programs such as this.

Teenagers just learning to drive are a major concern for many parents.  It’s not that their teen is a bad driver but rather an inexperienced driver when it comes to handling a vehicle on a busy road.  There are all types of factors such as distracted driving that can cause accidents, and inthinc is committed to helping reduce those accidents.

Note:  This is a sponsored post.