Small Victories Sunday Linkup {75}

Who’s crashing after the sugar rush & festivities from Halloween? Well, there’s no rest for the weary in our house as we are in the thick of birthday and the holiday season. Maybe if I start now, I’ll have everything done on my grand plans for birthdays, Thanksgiving, Christmas and my plans for the blog. Ok, I need a break. Take a break with me this week and enjoy the inspiration from our favorite bloggers here at Small Victories Sunday Linkup. I bet there will be some simple, frugal and amazing ideas to help you make this the best holidays yet! 

Our co-hosts have been busy commenting, sharing and inviting the best bloggers to participate in our linkup. That means we’ve got the best posts to inspire you to read, eat, craft, live and blog well! Who were your favorites last week? Let us know in the comments, we love to hear from you. Keep reading and see if they were the Featured Bloggers.

Bloggers, our linkup is designed to share your BEST posts to inspire our fast growing community of readers. Share with us anything that will help others live a happier and healthier life. Sunday is the perfect day to reflect and celebrate the week that passed and look forward to the week ahead. Our linkup is open all week long so feel free to stop by anytime, it’s never too late to linkup with us. If you need writing prompts or to see past linkups, visit our main Small Victories Sunday Linkup page.

A friendly reminder that our goal is to inspire others through positive posts, posts that are rude or offensive may be deleted from the linkup. Also, since my kids visit my blog, please keep content free of sexual themes. Thanks! 

Give some love to your extra special hosts who do their best to encourage and promote your posts!

Ways You Can Follow Your Hosts:

Tanya M from Mom’s Small Victories (books, food, chronic illness)| Pinterest | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Google +
Meagan from Sunshine and Sippy Cups (lifestyle) | Pinterest | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Google +
Echo from The Mad Mommy (family/parenting, humor)| Pinterest | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Google +
Gail from Frugal & Coupon Crazy (saving money) | Pinterest | Facebook | Twitter | Google +
Heather from GeminiRed Creations (crafts, handmade, small business) | Pinterest | Facebook | Twitter | Google +
Kimberly from Keystrokes by Kimberly (lifestyle, travel, entertainment) | Pinterest | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
Crystal from Tidbits of Experience (family, entertainment, books) | Pinterest | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Google +
Leigh from Hines-Sight Blog (lifestyle, food, travel) | Pinterest | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Google +
Heather from Simply Save (saving money, minimalism, life) | Pinterest | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Google +
Tiffani from All Inspired Mom (family, crafts, planning)| Pinterest | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
Karren from Oh My Heartsie Girl (food, crafts/DIY, blogging tips)| Pinterest | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
Danita from O Taste and See Blog (food) |Pinterest | Facebook | Twitter | Google +
Shandra from With Heart Wide Open (life, faith, family)| Pinterest | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
Suzanna from One Hoolie Mama (family, recipes, fitness)| Pinterest | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

Featured Bloggers

Our Featured Bloggers for most clicked posts from last week’s linkup were:

Everything You Wanted to Know About Guest Blogging: Writing Pitch by Debbie In Shape 

5 Daily Frugal Things to Do by Frugal & Coupon Crazy

Why I Won’t Be Buying My Daughter a Smartphone by Parental Journey

10 Things to Do Instead of Watching Television by 2 Chicks Blogging

Tame Your Child’s Sweet Tooth by Ramblings of a (Bad) Domestic Goddess

How a Blogger Becomes a Writer by Giftie Etcetera

 

 Congratulations to all our Featured Bloggers. Grab the Featured Blogger button below if you like and spread the good news that you were our Featured Blogger this week! 

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My Weekly Recap

Reading:

For the Travel the World in Books Readathon, I finished reading A Sister’s Promise by Renita D’Silva. Renita is one of my favorite Indian authors and if you want to immerse yourself in India’s culture, you must try her books out. Review coming soon! 

I had put down The Determined Heart by Antoinette May because I just was not getting into it. I do not like abandoning books or writing negative reviews. However, I’m on the blog tour so I’m finishing this historical fiction one way or another. The beginning was a bit of a Cinderella story where Mary Shelley (yes, the author of Frankenstein) loses her mother and her father remarries an uncaring stepmother. Needless to say, I didn’t like how the stepmother treats Mary and her sister. Luckily, Mary’s future husband, Percy Shelley, has entered the scene and his charm and circumstance certainly makes me wonder what will happen….the synopsis says the consequences are disastrous, my interest is piqued. 

Next up, I’ll be reading I am Malala for Nonfiction November’s readalong. Will you be reading some nonfiction with us? The Travel the World in Books Reading Challenge November theme is nonfiction so we can all participate in Nonfiction November and learn about other countries and cultures while we’re at it!  

Blogging:

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I blogged my menu plan this week where I tell you why it’s the perfect time to start a free trial of Plan to Eat*. It’s the menu planning tool I have been using since last Black Friday and I love it and highly recommend it. 

• [1 Nov] Travel the World in Books joins Nonfiction November 2015
• [5 Nov] Weekly Menu Plan – Nov. 5, 2015
• [7 Nov] Small Victories Sunday Linkup {75}

 

Now It’s Your Turn to Share Your Favorite Posts and Small Victories! 

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* Grab the Small Victories Sunday button and place it in your sidebar or the post you are linking up.

* Share up to 3 of your favorite blog posts you want to share. Enter your link below and let’s celebrate our small victories together! Please refrain from linking up posts with mature themes like erotica, new adult or offensive language.

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