Lovin' the Weekend Blog Hops: December 7-9, 2012

Welcome to Lovin' The Weekend Blog Hops with your co-hosts:

Karen from Tots and Me, Maria from Adventures of the Mommy Homemaker and Rena from An Ordinary Housewife.

Thank you to every one who has stopped by, whether this is your first visit or you have been a faithful ongoing participant!

We would love for you to stop by each of the co-hosts and follow us, then feel free to add your links to any or all of the following linkies.

 We also randomly choose a Featured host each week from the Lovin' The Readers linky. This week we are featuring Cari from Reach for the Star Berries

Here's what she has to say:

"I'm thrilled to be chosen to be the featured host this week! My name is Cari and I'm from Reach The Star Berries. I'm a mom of two beautiful daughters and I would do anything in the world for them.  I love learning along side them and discovering new things.  Before I had children I went to college to become a teacher.  I graduated from San Diego State University with my B.A. in Liberal Studies and went on to earn my Multiple Subject Teaching Credential.  I'm passionate about creating through cooking, baking, and any other arts or crafts my children might enjoy. I also love to save money and find the best deal.

I've been blogging for the past year but just started my own personal blog to share about family, food, frugality, and fun this past month.  I love trying new things and sharing my knowledge with others. Making connections with other parents through blogging has been a great way to develop friendships and they mean much more than just a pin on Pinterest. (I do love Pinterest though.)

I find myself telling my daughter on a daily basis to, "reach for the star berries."  My mom used to say this to me all the time when I was growing up too. I chose this saying as the title of my blog because it not only has a lot of sentimental value but it has a great message.  I want to always be striving to do my best and reach for the star berries. I want to inspire my family and friends to do the same and I hope that I can inspire you as well. So welcome, and I hope you'll join me on my journey as I continue to "Reach For The Star Berries."

Don't forget to link up to the Lovin' the Readers Hop if you would like a chance to be a Featured host next week. Please comment with a way to contact you, especially if there is not an obvious way mentioned on your blog. We would love to include a little write up about you and your blog in the next week's Lovin' The Weekend Blog Hop post, including a link to your blog. And you will get to include the linky codes on your blog. Sound fun? We're looking forward to getting to know our readers better.

Here's how this blog hop works. We would appreciate it if you would follow Tots and Me, Adventures of a Mommy Homemaker and An Ordinary Housewife then please head on over to our Featured Host and follow as well. If you no longer have GFC please follow in some other way. After that there are three different linkies you can link to. Whichever one you choose to link to, please grab that button and share it on your blog (the codes are on Tot's and Me's sidebar). We'd love it if you could tweet or in some other way share about this blog hop, the more people who know about it, the more potential visitors and new followers of your blog. We'd love to meet some new friends this weekend.  

Some people are more interested in just increasing their numbers, while others really want people who appreciate their blog and want to keep up with their posts. So, there are two separate linkies. The third linky is for you to link up your giveaways.

If you are interested in increasing the number of followers to your blog via GFC, Linky Followers, email, Twitter, Facebook or Google+ link up here. We will follow you back if you follow us (just note which one you are linking to):

If you are interested in gaining followers to your blog who will read and comment and truly find an interest in your blog, link up here:

If you have family friendly giveaways to link up, here's your spot. Please make sure to include an end date for your giveaway.

We are so glad you stopped by. Please leave a comment if you link up and we will be sure to stop by and follow back.

Don't forget to check out my "Blog Hops" page for other great weekend blog hops!!