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Friendly Friday 4-29-11

April 29, 2011 By

Welcome to Friendly Friday!
Thanks for joining the Friendly Friday celebration hosted by Xenia at Thanks, Mail Carrier, Christi at Frugal Novice and Charla at Healthy Home Blog! We invite you to join us every Friday to make more friends in blogville, get more blog followers and follow other great blogs out there.

To join in the Friendly Friday celebration, include your family-friendly link in our 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 through Google Friend Connect – this is a good way to keep up with other blogs, but also lets us show support to each other! Please DO NOT list your giveaways here, links must be to either your homepage or your Friday posting with your blog title. All others will be deleted.

When people comment on your blog and let you know they’re a part of Friendly Friday, return the favor and follow them back. This way everyone gets traffic and followers out of participating, and it’s a win-win situation. Feel free to right-click on and save the 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!

Remember, YOU can host the link list on your blog, too! Just get the InLinkz code and copy it directly into your post. The code is different every week, so be sure to get the new code when hosting Friendly Friday on your blog. Hosting the list is a great way to get even more traffic to your blog and make Friendly Friday more beneficial for everyone.

Happy Friendly Friday everybody! After days of rain and wind, it’s a beautiful sunny day here in Lansing. Kaitlyn asked this morning if we could please start planting a garden! Chris and I have talked about it, but I think we haven’t yet because we’re afraid we’ll put a bunch of work into it and then nothing will grow :P

We’re planning to make tomorrow Spring Cleaning day. Every room in the house needs a thorough dusting, vacuuming, mopping. I’m sure we’ll end up filling the back of the van with stuff for Goodwill, too. I also need to write about two dozen product reviews, I could do it in a weekend if I could stay off of Facebook :)

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It’s A Big Day For Both My Boys

April 28, 2011 By

Today turned out to be a big day for both Ryan and Nathan. First, Nathan went with Chris to work for Take Your Child to Work Day. The company Chris works for is family-owned and they love planning activities for kids. Chris has been busy all morning so I don’t even know what Nathan is doing, but I’m sure he’s happy not to be in school :)

Tonight is Ryan’s induction ceremony into National Junior Honor Society. At dinner last night Ryan casually mentioned that he had gone to “rehearsal” yesterday during school and was going today as well. I said, rehearsal for WHAT? People, getting inducted into NJHS is a BIG FREAKING DEAL, I had no idea.

This is the largest group the school has ever had, 84 students. Besides going over the ceremony and practicing things like lining up and walking into the room, they also practiced the ceremony itself. Which involves things like holding a candle and having it lit by the person next to them, then turning and lighting their neighbor’s candle. And taking an OATH.

OMG, my son is joining an actual SECRET SOCIETY, people! The more he described it, the more it sounded eerily familiar – because I went through a similar ceremony when I had my sorority initiation. Except I had to take a test about the sorority history, recite the Greek alphabet, learn a handshake (yes, a HANDSHAKE), and Ryan just has to take an oath and light a candle. But STILL. Guess that means I’d better take a shower and put on something other than sweatpants and a ratty t shirt.

GREAT. Now I have my sorority’s song totally stuck in my head and it will be there all day. Bet your sorority’s song didn’t start with everyone having to WHISTLE. How does one even type a whistle?

Like I said before I digressed, big day.  I asked Chris to try to get some pictures of Nathan at work, and I’ll take my camera tonight and record what I can of Ryan’s initiation.  It’s exciting for both of them!

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Wordless Wednesday 4-27-11: Best Save the Date Wedding Video EVER

April 27, 2011 By

I wish I was their friend so I could go to their wedding! Add the link to your Wordless Wednesday post below, and please leave a comment letting me know you were here!

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