There’s a new blog carnival starting up tomorrow hosted by Susana called Friday’s Gracious Giveaways. Did you hear the word ‘giveaways’?? Want to know a little more??

Friday’s Gracious Giveaways is a weekly blog carnival that will be hosted each Friday starting tomorrow {June 26th}. There are so many great giveaways around in the bloggy world, but many are missed because the blogs hosting them might not have a lot of traffic, or be able to get the word out effectively. This carnival will be a central place to link all of the great giveaways {and find some fun stuff too!}.

Be sure to bookmark her page to check out each week for fun stuff to win!

Voting is now open for favorite Company Girl photos ~ and mine is one of the pictures!!! I’m a little partial to the picture {and I’m shameless enough to beg for your help!}.

What’s in it for me? The winner of the most votes will get a guaranteed spot in the Company Girl book and the winning photo will be professionally mounted on canvas for me to enjoy for years to come!

I also entered this picture of McKenna with one of our friend’s daughters – they had so much fun playing together that night!

Each person is allowed to cast three votes, so you can vote for my two and have fun looking around for another. Voting is open until Sunday, June 28th. So please ~ vote, vote, vote! :) You can click on either of the pictures to take you directly to that voting page.

Thanks so much for your help!

Susana is hosting a giveaway for a super-cute Funky Artist paintbrush set over at Our Homeschool Fun.

Be sure to stop by and tell her I sent you over! Unless of course you’d like to increase my chances by not entering…{grins}

I love homeschool convention time.

Love it.

Wandering around the huge vendor hall. Finding great deals in the used curriculum sale. Refueling by listening to some amazing speakers.

Going into convention I had all my curriculum choices lined up {in a nice little row thank.you.very.much} ~ so certain of what I needed to buy. Wanted to do. Planned to follow.

Here I am on the other side of convention having ditched one of my curriculums {language} and will now be spending the next few weeks furiously reviewing a new language curriculum for our upcoming year.

If you are at all familiar with my personality, this is really stretching me. Putting me out of my comfort zone. But I am very excited about our upcoming year and getting planning underway.

I’ll be sharing the different areas we’ll be studying next year and also our plans for the summer in the next little bit, so stay tuned. {And feel free to ask any questions!!}

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