Random 5 on Friday ~ July 25th Edition

-

We can not be coming up to the last week in July.  No. No. No!  I’m not done with July. I want more July!  Random thoughts about my blog and social media!

flower blog button

1. I’m making a list of things to change or improve on my web design. I’ll be updating the About Tab and working on navigation. I did change the main background to be white and I made the outer background a darker shade of lavender purple. I want my blog look to be simple but pleasing and not overly cluttered.  Do you have any tips or suggestions?  Something you’d like to see me add or change?

2. I joined Pinterest!  Yes me!  The person who cringes at visual overload.  If you would like to follow me on Pinterest you’ll find me at Tess {Circling Through This Life}.

3. Speaking of Social Media have you liked Circling Through This Life on Facebook yet? I’m still building up the page and I’d love to have you come and interact.  Come on over and tell me what you’d like to see me write about. 

4.  I’m thinking I want to post more about my Orthodox Journey.  My faith is part of who I am.  It’s part of my life.  Yes, do post the occasional reference or post about church life but I think I want to go deeper. It’s hard for me because when I started this blog I was a protestant.  I’ve never really shared that journey here.

5.  Ok this is not blog related.  This is just me being whiney.  I really miss having two vehicles. Really miss it. I miss being able to go to Bible Study.  I miss being able to run errands during the week days.  I don’t like getting up early to drive Honeybear to work so that I can spend all day driving around and then have to go drive and pick him up.

The Pebble Pond

Come join us over at the Pebble Pond for this week’s Edition of Random 5 on Friday!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Blog Celebration Giveaway!

-
Image
I’ve been looking for an excuse to host a give a way.  I thought oh I’ll do a giveaway when I reach 100 followers!  And then suddenly I had over a hundred. Then I thought ‘why don’t I celebrate when I’ve written 100 posts?’  Typical of me, I didn’t pay attention and I went right on writing past 100. So now, I’m thinking I’ve got to do a Give-A-Away this week because of the Ultimate Blog Party .   (You can read my Blog Party Introduction post here .) So I look at my post count this morning and I realize that THIS POST is my 150th Blog Post! So now, I’ll just *have* to give something away.  But what?  What can I give away?  I know.. Coffee!   I’d serve coffee (or tea) if you were sitting here with me in my dinning room chatting so here’s your chance to win a $15 Starbucks Coffee Gift Card To enter leave a comment.   I’ll use a random method (such as random.org) to choose a winner.  Winner will be announced April 9th! Required for first entry:  Tell me what you would purchase with
Read more

HAPPY NEW YEAR! NEW START - NEW YEAR - NEW LOOK!

-
Image
Happy New Year!  With the New Year, I opted to change the look of my blog.  It's currently a work in progress and Tailorbear is doing some design work for me. It's been about a year since I last posted.  I wasn't sure where I wanted to go with blogging.  Did I want to continue to blog?  What would write?   Then I found inspiration. It's a long story and I'll share it - bit by bit - going forward.  I am still passionate about education.  While BooBear, TurtleGirl, and Tailorbear are now busy being adults,  Supergirl continues with her "homeschooling."  As our special needs, medically fragile, miracle girl, she continues to amaze us, and we continue our commitment to keep homeschooling as long as she is interested and still making progress.   I will continue to blog about homeschooling-related topics. However,  I am most excited about blogging about my health journey. I want to share what I am learning!  I'm inspired to write about my new way of eating a
Read more

My Love Affair with the Homeschool Review Crew!

-
Image
Yes I am specifically writing this post to link up to the Friday (I know it's not Friday!) Homeschool Blogger Link Up hosted by the Homeschool Review Crew a division of The Old Schoolhouse® Magazine.  This Crew Blog's post is Homeschool Review Crew Needs You.   Yep we want to grow the crew an to do that we need more home educating bloggers.  But not just bloggers.  We want Vloggers too!  Are you an active You Tube Vlogger?  We have a section in the 2019 Crew Application just for you! Now that you know why I am writing this post let me tell about my long term love affair with the Homeschool Review Crew.  We meet to speak when it was brand spanking new in 2008.  An online friend and co-moderator with me of an online email group for home school support had just embarked on the Maiden Voyage of this new concept of receiving home school product in exchange for a review!  Back in those days you didn't have to be a blogger you just had to have a place such as a home school s
Read more