Let Me Celebrate Your Favorite Blogs, and Another Different Kind of Giveaway

I am having a bit of a BLOCK...First off...thanks for asking about my husband ...He is fine...He has gone to work out right now, then leaving on a trip tomorrow. Realizing that it was a combination of several different things going on that were causing some strange symptoms, finally got us to the right meds...ALL IS GOOD!

There are several posts in my heart but not ready to make it to the blog yet. In the next few days, I am planning to post on my holiday blog, A Baby Changes Everything. I am not posting regularly there right now, but have a few spring goodies I want to show you and think I will do a GIVEAWAY....I just love SHIPPING a GIVEAWAY,(really my husband ships all of them) knowing it is going to MAKE SOMEONES DAY. So be watching for a post on the holiday blog.
Just to keep myself accountable...My walking buddy is on a trip this week, but I am doing Leslie Sansone's in home walking tapes this week. She has such an encouraging voice, kind of like Terri's. I have a LIBRARY of her tapes.
THAT'S a GREAT GIVEAWAY...Saturday night I will have Parker draw for one of her tapes. If you would like one, just leave it in the comments of this post and I will put your name in the pot.
BUT HERE IS THE MAIN REASON FOR THIS POST....
If you have a FAVORITE BLOG, hopefully one that I have never talked about, that others would LOVE, send it to me or leave it in the comments. I will post as many as I can..I would love to send new blogs some traffic. I would love to send older blogs MORE traffic. I LOVE finding a new blog, a gem, a new friend.
Blog hopping will DO THAT EVERY TIME. Then next week, I will do a post with some great ETSY shops. So if you have a favorite, leave it in the comments. Do not miss these pictures....have I told you I love babies? Never miss a post that she writes. They make my heart
happy. Leave me some blog names and treat me to some new reading. I love a good READ.

We are still working on my new blog design. I am not the type customer any designer wants. Trust me on this one. There are TOO many things I like, too MANY designs that are my favorites, a FONT junkie, and really have a hard time conveying all those aspects to anyone...even myself. It's very frustrating to me. If it were possible I would change my design once a week, but you would never know where you were.

REMEMBER I AM GIVING AWAY 2 MORE CARD PACKAGES on Saturday Night. I won't see Parker until Saturday night, so that will give you an extra day. WE WILL DRAW FOR BOTH GIVEAWAY'S ON SATURDAY NIGHT. A comment is all it takes and you can enter the next three days and have multiple chances. If you do not have a blog, just leave your email.
I think I WANT TO TWITTER. I said think. FIRST I NEED TO KNOW HOW. If any of you can send me an email (annah99@aol.com) with some basic information, and walk me through it, I will REWARD you with a SURPRISE. Remember I hate to read directions, always have and probably always will.
AND just for my enjoyment, if you are an American Idol lover like me, who is your FAVORITE so far? That's an extra entry for you.
CAN YOU SAY RANDOM? Sorry!

This Was a Monday and Another Winner

*****DO NOT MISS THIS POST ENJOYING THE SMALL THINGS!

It has been a Monday in every way. Jack came home from the trip that Parker and I decided not to go on, VERY SICK. And he is rarely sick...I venture to guess that in the 37 years we have been married he has said he was really sick less than ten times...He is just not a complainer. If I am sick I want everyone to know it. Not him...so when he said he was so sick last night, I knew he was. I know he had a heart cath a few weeks ago, but that was more of just a precaution, not sick. This has been SICK. This was the Monday after Spring Break so our primary care doctor was not in until tomorrow...so I took a chance and called the cardiologist's nurse, since we had so recently seen them (plus I had taken her a gift basket) and told her what was going on...and she said he could come immediately. MIRACLE....and after last nights vote, those kinds of things may be a thing of the past. His main symptoms were a hard time breathing, could not eat, felt like something was on his chest, nausea, reflux (which he has never had) and just a general feeling that he was getting sicker. I will admit I was a little scared. I fully expected him to be in the hospital tonight and even packed a bag on the side....just in case..Then when he called Amanda and said he did not feel like he could take the boys to breakfast and school, I knew it was bad...I can never remember him not taking them EVER if he was in town. One look at him and you knew he felt horrible. Long story short and a LONG day, the doctor thinks he has gastritis. He said he had every symptom and it was nothing to do with his heart.

He gave him meds and set up an appointment with a GI doctor in a couple of weeks. Tonight the meds are finally kicking in and he is feeling a little better. If any of you have had this or have any knowledge about it, share it with me. The littles were here this afternoon and so concerned that POP did not feel good. Parker was so sweet. He came in the room I was in and said "Grammy, I think Pop is sick"! That's something they have never seen.

Bloggers are getting their card packages and I am so excited...SNAIL MAIL is alive and well. More will be shipped tomorrow. Becky got hers today and did a post on it. I have received so many thank you notes. Please know the pleasure is all mine.
TONIGHT'S WINNER IS Theresa at They Call Me Ganky. Her blog is new to me, but looks so cute. Stop by and say hello to her. I tivoed Dancing With the Stars and am looking forward to watching it later tonight.

Several blogs that I love and want to share with you...some may be ones I have mentioned before, but I never leave these blogs without a laugh, a word of encouragement, and very thankful that I joined the blogging community. Stop by a Nancy's Monablog, Just a Beachkat , The House in The Roses, and Lynn's Gifts From the Heart. These are ALL great READS and GREAT LADIES! Another favorite blog is CROWN LAID DOWN. Holly always has great insight and a way with words and is a gal I know personally and love. This was an interesting post and a new blog I found. ALSO, DO NOT MISS THIS SITE....
LEEN on the GRAPHICS QUEEN and ANOTHER DO NOT MISS is BLOG of the BLESSED!
Thats a lot of reading material.

COME BACK HERE ANY NIGHT THIS WEEK and tell me one of these blogs that you visited that you had NEVER BEEN to BEFORE. That will put you in the drawing FRIDAY NIGHT. I WILL GIVE AWAY 2 MORE CARD PACKAGES! I really do want everyone to win one...Can you tell?
My walking partner is on a trip this week, but I did 3 MILES today. This was my first day back after my little fall last week...Now if I can just start CHARTING what I eat.

WINNERS and WINTER and ANOTHER CHANCE TO WIN TOMORROW

BEFORE I GET STARTED on the "WINNERS, HERE IS a QUICK WAY to win ANOTHER GIVEAWAY TOMORROW NIGHT !

I AM A HUGE DANCING WITH THE STARS FAN.
The season starts back TOMORROW NIGHT.
LEAVE A COMMENT WITH THE STAR YOU ARE MOST EXCITED TO SEE...that's it....a one day, one post giveaway...a great chance to win.
I WILL DRAW FOR ANOTHER CARD PACKAGE TOMORROW NIGHT, as soon as DWTS is over. Stay tuned.

I am NOT STOPPING UNTIL EVERYONE THAT WANTS CARDS HAS THEM.

I am blown away by this weather...SNOW was falling in Louisiana when I woke up this morning. Not that I had a good nights sleep. Had two littles in my bed and one little....kicked me all night...But who cares, I had a good nap this afternoon. We spent last night reading books, making fun drinks, laughing and staying up until midnight. That's the way it's suppose to be at GRAMMYS....and I am so sad that school starts back tomorrow.

ON WITH MY MISSION TO BRING SNAIL MAIL BACK . THE WINNERS TONIGHT ARE STEPHANIE AT LIFE IS A MIRACLE andWARRIOR PRINCESS at NO REALLY, I AM JUST SAYING