Happy Military Spouse Appreciation Day 2011!
To honor all military spouses, we’re hosting a weekend-long blog carnival. You’ll have the opportunity to win some terrific prizes!
There are just two basic rules to participate:
Rule #1: Write a blog that goes along with our “11″ 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 Alaska time (in honor of Pattie’s soon-to-be-new home state!). Alaska is on GMT-9 or you can look it up here.
Rule #2: Include a link to Wives of Faith in your blog post.
Write every day for the weekend, 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!
Winners will be announced Monday May 9 at noon from all eligible entries.
Be sure to add our blog carnival button! Save the image to your computer, or you can get the code here:
<center><a href=”http://www.wivesoffaith.org/military-spouse-appreciation-blog-carnival”><img title=”Military Spouse Appreciation Blog Carnival” src=”http://www.wivesoffaith.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/msablogcarnival.jpg” alt=”Wives of Faith – Connecting, Encouraging and Supporting Military Wives” width=”200″ height=”300″ /></a></center>
WHO IS ELIGIBLE?
All military spouses are eligible, as long as you have an APO/FPO if you live overseas! No international shipping will be available.
PRIZES:
Friday: *Kari Jobe’s self-titled CD
Saturday: *book: Miracles and Moments of Grace: Inspiring Stories from Military Chaplains by Nancy B. Kennedy
Sunday: *autographed copies of Tour of Duty and God Strong by Sara Horn
PROMPTS:
Friday: List 11 things in 2011 that you love about being the wife of a soldier/sailor/airman/marine/coast guardsman/national guardsman/reservist!
Saturday: List 11 fun things you want to see or do in your current duty station/place you live/or if you’re moving, list 11 things you want to do in your upcoming duty station location!
Sunday: List 11 amazing facts about yourself!
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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Thank you!! I think I will join in!
So excited! Just what I need to reboot my desire to blog. Plus, I started blogging last year during Military Spouse Appreciation week on here! Full circle for sure.
Oh, I’ve wanted to do something like this with my blog so that I could reach more military spouses. I would love to join in!
Excited to take part in this.
Sounds like fun!
yay! ALways enjoy our blog carnivals! Can not wait!!
Yay so excited! Although I clicked on the link about the time zone and it gave me an error message.
I’m sorry
The link just worked for me when I checked. You can also search for time zone maps and it will give you something you can use 
Yay so excited! Although I clicked on the link about the time zone and it gave me an error message. Plus it seems I’m having problems commenting on the blog.
Okay now it seems my first comment finally showed up. Sorry for the duplicate.
That’s ok! “Some days are like that. Even in Australia.” (Judith Viorst)
Awesome!!
I’m SO in! I already wrote all 3 pieces and scheduled them out. Man, I’m on top of it today! lol…
I don’t see a post yet, so I’ll go ahead and post my link here in case I forget.
http://christianmommywriter.com/2011/05/military-spouse-appreciation-day-2011.html
Looking forward to reading everyone’s posts!
Not sure where I am supposed to post. Guessing it is perhaps too early, but like Tonya, I don’t want to forget!
http://militarywifetheology101.blogspot.com/2011/05/i-am-so-happy-to-be-wife-of-my-army.html
Wow! Ladies, I guess I should’ve posted it sooner than 5 am Eastern? I’ll post at midnight for the next two days for you. If you think of it, please move the links to the new post for Friday!