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Day 2: The Dream Sheet

Welcome to our third annual Military Spouse Appreciation Blog Carnival!

TOPIC FOR TODAY: We all know there’s a “dream sheet” for our service members to indicate where they’d choose to be sent if possible. But what about you? What duty stations or locations would be on YOUR dream sheet?

The only two blog carnival rules you need to know:

Rule #1: Write a blog that goes along with our topic for the day and comment under that specific day’s topic with a link back to your own blog post by the deadline.

Deadline: Post no later than midnight Pacific time. (That means 11 p.m. for Alaska gals and 9 p.m. for our friends in Hawaii. Those of you in Europe and Asia can look up time zones here but I know you’ll be able to figure it out–we are military wives, after all! )

Rule #2: Include a link to Wives of Faith in your blog post.

Write every day for the week, or pick and choose any days you like, but each day you comment on the Wives of Faith site during our MILITARY SPOUSE APPRECIATION BLOG CARNIVAL, you’ll be entered to win in our daily drawing!

Today’s PRIZES:

koriyates.com

Olive Drab Pom-Poms by Kori Yates, our own Wives of Faith MarriageCare Director!

and

Tour of Duty: Preparing Our Hearts for Deployment

Tour of Duty: Preparing our Hearts for Deployment by Wives of Faith co-Founder and President, Sara Horn!

Today’s winners will be determined by random drawing from all eligible blog posts.

Today’s prizes are open to residents of the United States and Canada.

Sponsors/Giveaways: We still have some openings for giveaways. If you’re a milspouse with a direct sales business who would like to participate, please contact me (pattie@wivesoffaith.org). Be sure to indicate your shipping availability.

Feel free to add our special carnival blog button to your blog. The Blog Carnival button this year was designed by Wives of Faith member Jolene McNutt. She blogs over at Tree of Life Creative.

Grab our button for your blog using this code:
<a href=”http://www.wivesoffaith.org/third-annual-wof-milspouse-blog-carnival”><img alt=”" height=”125″ src=”http://www.wivesoffaith.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/2012MSABlogCarnivalSmall.jpg” title=”2012MSABlogCarnivalSmall” width=”100″ /></a>

It looks like this:

Isn’t it adorable?

 

 

 

 

When you post your response in the comments each day, please post the distinct URL for your post for that day, rather than the general link to your blog itself. For example, instead of posting www.wivesoffaith.org each time, you would post http://www.wivesoffaith.org/military-spouse-appreciation-blog-carnival which links directly to that particular post.

Please let us know if you have any questions, and happy writing–AND thank you so much for your service to our country and to God by being a military wife!

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Day 1: You Know You’re a Military Spouse When…

Welcome to our third annual Military Spouse Appreciation Blog Carnival!

TOPIC FOR TODAY:

“You know you’re a military spouse when . . . ”

The only two rules you need to know:

Rule #1: Write a blog that goes along with our topic for the day and comment under that specific day’s topic with a link back to your own blog post by the deadline.

Deadline: Post no later than midnight Pacific time. (That means 11 p.m. for Alaska gals and 9 p.m. for our friends in Hawaii. Those of you in Europe and Asia can look up time zones here but I know you’ll be able to figure it out–we are military wives, after all! )

Rule #2: Include a link to Wives of Faith in your blog post.

Write every day for the week, or pick and choose any days you like, but each day you comment on the Wives of Faith site during our MILITARY SPOUSE APPRECIATION BLOG CARNIVAL, you’ll be entered to win in our daily drawing!

Today’s PRIZES:

koriyates.com

Olive Drab Pom-Poms by Kori Yates, our own Wives of Faith MarriageCare Director!

and

A $10 gift card to Starbucks, donated by our Web Content Editor and resident Coffee Addict, Pattie.

Today’s winners will be determined by random drawing from all eligible blog posts.

Today’s prizes are open to residents of the United States and Canada.

Sponsors/Giveaways: We still have some openings for giveaways. If you’re a milspouse with a direct sales business who would like to participate, please contact me (pattie@wivesoffaith.org). Be sure to indicate your shipping availability.

Feel free to add our special carnival blog button to your blog. The Blog Carnival button this year was designed by Wives of Faith member Jolene McNutt. She blogs over at Tree of Life Creative.

Grab our button for your blog using this code:
<a href=”http://www.wivesoffaith.org/third-annual-wof-milspouse-blog-carnival”><img alt=”" height=”125″ src=”http://www.wivesoffaith.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/2012MSABlogCarnivalSmall.jpg” title=”2012MSABlogCarnivalSmall” width=”100″ /></a>

It looks like this:

Isn’t it adorable?

 

 

 

 

Blogging FAQs:

If you are new to blogging, you can create a new blog of your very own! Some free blog hosting sites are:

www.blogger.com
www.wordpress.com
www.xanga.com
www.livejournal.com
www.blog.com

When you post your response in the comments each day, please post the distinct URL for your post for that day, rather than the general link to your blog itself. For example, instead of posting www.wivesoffaith.org each time, you would post http://www.wivesoffaith.org/military-spouse-appreciation-blog-carnival which links directly to that particular post.

Please let us know if you have any questions, and happy writing–AND thank you so much for your service to our country and to God by being a military wife!

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Third Annual Wives of Faith Military Spouse Appreciation Blog Carnival

Welcome to our third annual Military Spouse Appreciation Blog Carnival! 2012 marks our third carnival in honor of Military Spouse Appreciation Day, held the Friday before Mother’s Day in the United States.

Our blog carnival will be held the week of Monday May 7 – Friday May 11, ending on Military Spouse Appreciation Day.

Only two rules for our sweepstakes:

Rule #1: Write a blog that goes along with our topic for the day and comment under that specific day’s topic with a link back to your own blog post by the deadline.

Deadline: Post no later than midnight Pacific time. (That means 11 p.m. for Alaska gals and 9 p.m. for our friends in Hawaii. Those of you in Europe and Asia can look up time zones here but I know you’ll be able to figure it out–we are military wives, after all! )

Rule #2: Include a link to Wives of Faith in your blog post.

Write every day for the week, or pick and choose any days you like, but each day you comment on the Wives of Faith site during our MILITARY SPOUSE APPRECIATION BLOG CARNIVAL, you’ll be entered to win in our daily drawing!

WHO IS ELIGIBLE?

Any military spouse anywhere in the world can participate in the blog carnival by posting on her blog.
For winning a prize: All U.S. military wives are eligible, as long as you have an APO/FPO if you live overseas! No international shipping will be available. {Canadian eligibility will be determined by each donation and will be indicated on each post.}

PRIZES:

To be announced soon…keep checking back!
Winners will be determined by random drawing from all eligible blog posts. No purchase necessary.

Sponsors/Giveaways: We still have some openings for giveaways. If you’re a milspouse with a direct sales business who would like to participate, please contact me (pattie@wivesoffaith.org). Be sure to indicate your shipping availability.

***The FTC Disclaimer: Prizes were donated to participants free of charge, with no other aim than to bless the participants.***

 

TOPICS:

Monday:  ”You know you’re a military spouse when . . . “

Tuesday: We all know there’s a “dream sheet” for our service members to indicate where they’d choose to be sent if possible. But what about you? What duty stations or locations would be on YOUR dream sheet?

Wednesday: Accentuate the positive: Describe your best military wife “Hooah!” moment (or, you know, “Oorah!” or “Hooyah!”–whichever word works for your husband’s branch of service!). You know it–now share it with us!

Thursday: It’s been said that a picture’s worth a thousand words. Post a photograph you’ve taken. (And yes, you can describe it or tell the story behind it if you want to! The only stipulation is that it needs to be a photo of your own, so as not to violate copyright.)

Friday: Why I love being a military wife.

Feel free to add our special carnival blog button to your blog. The Blog Carnival button this year was designed by Wives of Faith member Jolene McNutt. She blogs over at Tree of Life Creative.

Grab our button for your blog using this code:
<a href=”http://www.wivesoffaith.org/third-annual-wof-milspouse-blog-carnival”><img alt=”" height=”125″ src=”http://www.wivesoffaith.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/2012MSABlogCarnivalSmall.jpg” title=”2012MSABlogCarnivalSmall” width=”100″ /></a>

It looks like this:

Isn’t it adorable?

 

 

 

 

Blogging FAQs:

If you are new to blogging, you can create a new blog of your very own! Some free blog hosting sites are:

www.blogger.com
www.wordpress.com
www.xanga.com
www.livejournal.com
www.blog.com

When you post your response in the comments each day, please post the distinct URL for your post for that day, rather than the general link to your blog itself. For example, instead of posting www.wivesoffaith.org each time, you would post http://www.wivesoffaith.org/military-spouse-appreciation-blog-carnival which links directly to that particular post.

Please let us know if you have any questions, and happy writing–AND thank you so much for your service to our country and to God by being a military wife!

Popularity: 3% [?]

Christmas Carnival Wrap-up

I’m so grateful for this carnival, because truly, it was a labor of love and the work of an entire village of military wives!

I posted the winners on each day’s post, except for the bottlecap winners. What we ended up doing, since we had fewer than 11 participants on most days, was give a bottlecap necklace and keychain combination to the ladies who were winners on more than one day.  Angela, thank you so much for the bottlecaps! I’m so overwhelmed by your generosity!

I have emailed or otherwise attempted to contact all the winners, so if you have not mailed your mailing address to me and were a participant in the blog carnival, please do so.  My email is pattie (at) wivesoffaith.org

Merry Christmas to all!

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Christmas Carnival 2011 Day 5

Congratulations to Beth, who won the wall art! She will get it delivered after she and her family get a house in Hawaii. She’s in the middle of a PCS!


Welcome to Day 5 of our WIVES OF FAITH CHRISTMAS BLOG CARNIVAL!

The Rules can be found here.

Topic: You Might Be a Military Spouse at Christmas If . . .

Prizes: Kim, one of our blog team and social media team members here at Wives of Faith is a Word to the Wall consultant, and she is donating a piece of wall art that says “I am a Child of God” in dark brown letters!


Ten ladies will receive a Wives of Faith bottlecap necklace, made and donated by Angela Farris.

Leave your comments below with a link to your post, and please leave a link to your post here by copying the URL from your browser window. You have until midnight Eastern time to post. The winners will be chosen tomorrow morning by Pattie’s Special Elf and WOF blog team member, Ebony!

FTC disclosure statement: The above prizes were donated free of charge to Wives of Faith.

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