Oh Nuts

This is one of the blog posts where I knew already what I was going to say so it was easy to pick five blogs that I enjoy reading. 1. Homeschooling with Joy . The first blog on the list belongs to my dear mother. Although she hasn't posted much lately, and I know pretty much everything that goes on around our house, I still enjoy reading what she writes on her blog. 2. Elenatintil . This blog belongs to a friend of mine. It is one of my favorite blogs because I enjoy reading what my friend shares on her blog. 3. Shealynn's Faerie Shoppe . This blog is run by another friend of mine. Shealynn runs her own business, which can be found through her blog, and shares pictures of the items that she makes and sells. It is one of my favorite blogs to read because I enjoy seeing everything that she makes and shares on her blog. 4. Books, Roses and Wine . Even though Amanda is my sister, and she sometimes shares stuff that happens at home, just like our mom, I still enjoy reading ...

--1-- Since it's been over a month since I did my last 7 Quick Takes I decided to do another one. I am also doing it because I couldn't think of anything else to really post about that would make a long enough post by itself.  --2-- Last week after I had put this post up on my blog, I randomly decided to check the audience views to see how many different countries were viewing my blog. Needless to say I was very surprised to see all of the page views that I had from Romania. Normally the US is on top with a couple other countries underneath.  <--- That is from Sunday when I checked the page views again to see if anything had changed at all.  --3-- With school starting right around the corner, literally, because it starts on Tuesday for me, I thought I would do something for one of my quick takes. Last week I bought the books that I need for the three classes that I am taking this semester and I was thankfully able to save m...

The other day in my 7 Quick Takes post I mentioned that I had been thinking of adding a picture to the header of my blog and that I would share the finished results here so that you could help me decided on which one to use!! So here are the four headers that I came up with for my blog. Let me know what you guys think and which one is your favorite down in the comments. Header #1: Header #2: Header #3: Header #4:

1.) Last weekend was a lot of fun. On Friday the house phone went out, Saturday evening the air conditioning went out and on Sunday the power went out for a couple hours. At least there was a bit of a breeze outside, which helped with the heat a little. 2.) Saturday evening I hung out with some friends and watched Game 5 of the Stanley Cup finals. It was a lot of fun. On Monday Amanda and I met up with the same friends from Saturday to watch Game 6. Since I am from the Midwest it was exciting to see the Chicago Blackhawks beat Tampa Bay in games 5 & 6 and win the Stanley Cup. 3.) This writing prompt is one that I want to use at some point in my writing. 4.) Because everyone needs a picture of an adorable picture of a kitten to smile at. 5.) Since we had a decent amount of rain over the weekend and on Monday some of my siblings said that it was the Midwest version of Monsoon weather. While I enjoy rain with a little bit of thunder mixed in, I am not a huge fan ...

--1-- I would have posted something last week, but I forgot and couldn't think of anything to write anyhow. Not to mention my work schedule for last week was a tiny bit crazy, but that is just life and we have to deal with it. --2-- On Tuesday my friend Grace wrote a post on her blog My Spare Oom called What No One Tells You About College . " Talking about all the things people DON'T tell you about college - good and bad" (what Grace said when she shared the link on Facebook). --3-- --4-- Again on Tuesday I was reading another interesting article. This time on the subject of the words things that can happen to you in your 20s . Since I am in my 20s I thought that it was something to think about and potentially learn from. " The worst thing that can happen to you in your twenties would be if it were easy." --5-- "We also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance...

Amanda from Books, Roses and Wine...(oh my!) nominated me for the Liebster award. Since I don't remember what this particular award is, so here are the questions that were given to me that I had to answer. 1. If you had a sitcombased on your life, what would it be called?  It would most likely be called "My Boring Life." 2. What food is on the top of your list of things you will never, ever, in a million years eat, and why?  Mushrooms, because they sound  gross,  slimy, and disgusting, so I wouldn't eat them. 3. It's your wedding and your maid-of-honor got appendicitis at the last minute and can't fill in.  Who would you pick to replace her?  (Does not have to be a real person)  Benedict Cumberbatch, which would make for a very interesting and funny reception. 4. A fairy pops up and says that you will be cursed to live in a musical for the rest of your life.  She's nice though, and allows you to choose which musical.  What one woul...

--- 1 --- I know that last week I said that this weeks 7 quick takes would just be the pattern that I used to make the backpack. Well I decided to not do that because it sounded kind of boring to me.  --- 2 --- This past Saturday, Yavi had a small dance performance at our church. Though my family and I had seen the dance they were performing already we still went. Yavi wanted me to video the dance on my camera, since we had't gotten the entire dance on video the first time they did it, but I forgot to grab my camera before we left and didn't remember until we got to the church. But someone else was videoing it instead. Afterwards we all went out for ice cream at Culver's. The dance that they did was based on the story of The Prodigal Son  (Luke 15: 11-32), though they changed it to The Prodigal Daughter  since all of the dancers doing it were girls. --- 3 --- A friend of ours who hadn't been able to see the dance before came over to my house and we spent ...

Exspectata, Willkommen, accueil, benvenuto, gaidīts, laukiamas, powitanie, boas-vindas, bienvenida, croeso! Welcome to my new blog :) ^^^That is welcome in Latin, German, Polish, French, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Spanish, Welsh, Italian, and Latvian. As you can see from the post below this and on the side bar I am giving Bloglovin' a try to see how it works and if I like it. I'd like to thank my friend Allison for getting the new blog ball rolling when she started a new blog herself, which you can check out here :) (She also has a Facebook page for her blog that you can follow to get updates, just type Faint Hue of Grace in the search bar :) ) With this blog I plan on sharing more pictures that I take as well as snippets of stories that I write. So hopefully everyone enjoys the things that I post :) I will explain why I choose the name of my blog later on.

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