Last year when I created my 30 Before 30 List one of the things I wanted to do was to document every day of the year with a photo of some kind. I already take a lot of photos on my phone most days and the websites and blogs I saw of people doing it […]
Five Minute Friday: WRITE
I’m back for another Five Minute Friday….on Sunday…better late than never as I always say. Life got crazy between Friday and now I am ready to WRITE (go figure that is this weeks word). GO I wasn’t going to do a Five Minute Friday this week as it’s now SUNDAY night but the tweets […]
7 Quick Takes {Volume 100}
— 1 — Welcome to my 100th QUICK TAKE!!! WHOOHOOOO!!! — 2 — Man it has been a crazy week. On Tuesday night my cat Milo decided it would be a good idea to climb a tree. How he did this I have no idea since he has no front claws. Well the tree branch […]
NAS: ANOTHER ENGAGEMENT?!!?
ANOTHER ENGAGEMENT?!!? Oh this world we live in full of social media things pop up in our newsfeed…and sometimes it’s awesome, sometimes it’s sad, and sometimes it STINGS. Engagements are usually the later. Heck sometimes it’s people I haven’t even talked to in YEARS…or EVER…but yet it still STINGS…just the pure reminder that they have […]
Five Minute Friday: VISIT
It’s FRIDAY!!!!! YAY!! This week has felt like such a long and slow week..and Monday was a holiday..weird. Onto the word. GO VISIT. I am finding this month that every topic and every link-up is related. Last week in NAS we blogged about goals and words for 2014. A few weeks ago in Five […]
I WAS NOMINATED….for the Sheenazing Awards!!
Anyone know Bonnie? Of course you have..she is awesome! For the second year in a row she is hosing the Sheenazing [Blog] Awards! And guess what my dear readers? I WAS NOMINATED!! I am sooo excited and honored by this nomination! Thank you for nominating me! The voting starts TODAY! So head over to Bonnie’s blog […]
What I learned from ALLUME
So remember way back in OCTOBER when I went to Allume….and how in just about every 7 Quick Takes link-up from September on (probably earlier than that even ha) I mentioned Allume and how I was super excited to go…then I went and I am that bad blogger that never even wrote a reflection/blog post […]
NAS: GOALS
This weeks Not Alone Series topic is in what ways can you grow/stretch RIGHT NOW that could effect the whole of 2014? So everyone has been writing about goals and words and things that they are doing in 2014. Yeah I haven’t really done that yet…because well because I have been lazy (if we’re being […]
7 Quick Takes {Volume 99}
— 1 — I have a weird request readers. This April is the 20 year anniversary of my Dad’s passing and I want to have 20+ masses said in his memory all over the world the week/month of his passing. If you are willing to do this for me please email me at bethannesbest at […]
Five Minute Friday: SEE
GO SEE. See my room? No you DO NOT want to see that disaster. I just cannot keep it clean. I am missing some kind of domestic gene these days. What is weird is my desk/work area at work is spotless… The sad thing is I have no excuses other than exhaustion and […]
99 Stories from the Bible ~ Book Review
Today we have a guest post from my Mom! I received this Children’s Book from Kregel Publications and asked her to review it for me! Enjoy! 99 Stories from the Bible was well done. It was put together with great attention given to Scripture and the order it should follow. When you first look at this […]
History of Social Media…According to ME!
That’s right readers today I have become an “expert” on the history of social media! A few weeks ago I was listening to Kat’s Podcast – on How They Blog about Mastering Social Media. She gave a lot of good tips and I’ve learned a lot about social media over the years but the most interesting […]
What I WILL READ in 2014
I used to be an avid reader….way before the internet and smartphones were around to distract me 24/7 oh yeah and when my Mom was allowed to limit my screen time (thanks MOM!). Now I get so distracted by the awesome people of the internet and blogs I rarely read books. I think last […]
7 Quick Takes {Volume 98}
— 1 — HAPPY NEW YEAR!! I haven’t done a 7 Quick Takes since last year!! Hardy har har..but really it’s been a few weeks. — 2 — I’ve made a few changes to the blog over the past week. I’ve moved my RSS feed and email subscription to mailchimp. So make sure to sign […]
Guest Post – Italian Christmas Traditions
My friend Jen is having her computer worked on this week and she is letting me guest post on her blog! I wrote about all of my Italian Christmas Traditions. We have a lot of them..and I didn’t even get to them all in this post! I hope her readers enjoy them! Growing up holidays […]