Welcome to Friendly Friday!

Are you meeting new friends through Friendly Friday?  I am, and I hope you met some great new friends, and gained new followers, too!

Starting this week YOU can host the link list on your blog, too!  (Yay! I've been waiting for this!) 

 Just click "Get the code here..." at the bottom of the list. Hosting the list is a great way to get traffic to your blog and make Friendly Friday even more beneficial for everyone.

Our hostesses are:

 Xenia at Thanks, Mail Carrier! Christi at The Frugal Novice and Charla at  Healthy Home blog

Click on their links to go to their blogs.  Thanks, so much, ladies!

Please go over, meet them, and read all the details

of how to get in on this wonderful way to meet new friends, and gain followers!

Welcome, if you are new!

Please get a cup of coffee and sit down for a while!  There's a lot here for you to read and check out!  Please don't be shy--it is such an encouragement to read your comments!  I hope you'll follow me or subscribe and that you'll visit often, cuz that's how good friendships happen!

I am a stay-at-home wife,  and a Homeschooler, though my teaching days are completed, as my "children" are now 24 and 20.  We are blessed to have them still living at home with my wonderful husband and me.  My passion is to help and encourage young women, wives and moms to fulfill their God-given role, and I love to write, so this blog is my way of doing it all.
Specific themes that I have written on which you might enjoy (click on the links):

•  Hospitality Series: Click on Hospitality on the linkbar above for all the series or start out with "The Ghastly Guest"  and "The Goldens"

• Love and Marriage (Mondays Now on Wednesdays) Series: (We celebrated 32 years together yesterday!)  "Belittling and Henpecking", "Doing Those Little Things Around the House", and "Bitterness by any other name" are recent posts. You'll also find interviews; How and Why the subject of Courtship applies to you as a mom of little ones; Ways to teach young children about Godly love and marriage (our view of marriage starts when we're young and at home) and great books and resources to help you accomplish this goal.   (Grab my button on the sidebar to let people know about this series!)

• Timely Tips on Tuesday  (Everything helpful: from organization, to scheduling your prayer time, to child-training, to running a home, to tips for you as a mom to littlees)

• Food Friday (Clicking here will take you to all my Recipes: Every Friday I share a tried-and-true recipe that you'll love! And don't miss my posts of Rob Barrett of "Cooking for Dads"--you'll love his cooking show, and recipes!) 

So, get a cup of coffee, tea or a glass of lemon water, and click and check out what all there is here. 

1. Please let me know you came by and tell me what you're thinking.
2. And, last but not least, please Follow or Subscribe, but only if you really value what you read here. 
3. And, Grab my button (oh, I redesigned it, so you'll want to update yours, if you have the old one!) on your sidebar and tell your friends--Thanks!

The gals behind Friendly Friday will be extending the hours a little to make it easier to link up, and also are featuring three blogs at random who they will also do a write-up on, so after you're done checking out things here, go over and read about them, as well.

Thanks for stopping by!  I look forward to meeting you and getting to know you!

How It Works

To join in the Friendly Friday celebration, include your link in the 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 (if you feel so led) through Google Friend Connect - this is a good way to keep up with other blogs, but also lets us show support to each other!

When people comment on your blog and let you know they're a part of Friendly Friday, please return the favor and visit them (and consider following 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! 

Add your link below and we’ll see you back here every Friday! And don't forget, you can grab the code to share the link list on your blog too.

Have a great weekend, everyone!