Hello and welcome back to #KCACOLS. I hope you are all well! We had 48 link ups last time! THANK YOU ALL so much for being part of the linky! I really appreciate your support. For new people joining us this week, I really hope you like #KCACOLS and that you come back again next time! You can also find out more about this linky on the #KCACOLS linky page! 🙂
Good Morning! I am sat at the moment on the bed of a hotel room with my family in Southhampton getting ready to go to an event at Peppa Pig World. We travelled last night from London so we don’t have to rush this morning. After the event, we will travel again towards Somerset where the in-laws will be so we can celebrate Bella’s birthday on Sunday! I can’t believe she will be 8! Wow! So as you can see this weekend will be a little bit busy but we love travelling so it will be great!
The last couple of weeks have been fun. After coming back from the Isle of Wight, I was so exhausted that I couldn’t attend a few events I was invited to that week. But I did go to a great screening organised by Channel Mum. It was a private screening of Tully. OMG, this movie is so emotional. I felt upset and cried. I think any women with kids will feel very identified with it. If you have chance, go and watch it!
I was also working with the SSE Women’s FA Cup and we have done lots of activities for them. One was to be able to hold the trophy before the final. That was super cool to do. And last weekend we went to the final between Arsenal and Chelsea. We loved it! The girls had so much fun. We were in a box and had VIP treatment so we were so amazed by it all. With over 45,000 attending it is so nice to see how women’s football has grown so much. I loved seeing so many little girls excited about the game. That teaches you that gender is not important. You can do anything you are passionate about no matter who you are!
Each link up, I love sharing a couple of photos from my last 2 weeks on Instagram, so here are two of my favourites:
#KCACOLS ON INSTAGRAM
Thank you so much for using the #KCACOLS hashtag on Instagram for all your photos. It is lovely to see your photos there! I am so excited that we have more than 10k photos that have used the hashtag! I am thrilled! I would love it if more of you could use the hashtag for your photos and of course it would be even better if we all also spread some love there! I am featuring 1 photo from the community that has caught my eye since the last link up. This time I’m featuring JULIE from Sleeping Through Yet. See her photo below:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BifZ8ifhtuM/
KCACOLS CROWD FACEBOOK GROUP
THANK YOU to all of you that have joined the #KCACOLS CROWD Facebook Group. You can join us here. Also if you do join, please send me a direct message with the name of your blog so then I know who you are without having to figure out your blog name 🙂
NOTE: you can promote your posts and social channels there too because we host different threads to support each other so that is another reason to join us!
NOW BACK TO THE LINKY
We had 48 link ups and about 16 posts needed more comments. By Saturday we reduced this number to 7. It is nice to see that we managed to reduce a fair amount. I am away this weekend so it has been difficult to chase people. But from these 7 posts they all have 3 comments which is great! So 41 posts got 4 or more comments which is fantastic!
Regarding the people that have not commented on the post before theirs, we got 15 people on Friday morning. By Saturday we managed to reduce this to 11 people which is not great! I have not had the chance to chase yet but I will do as soon as the linky is out when I have spare time. But I am sure you know who you are so if you remember not commenting, please do it now.
Also, remember to comment on the co-hosts posts. Please also be aware that I’m BLOCKING URLs/Emails of people that have joined the linky and have not commented on any posts for consecutive weeks. If you find I have blocked you by mistake, please contact me.
FORTNIGHTLY LINKY The linky will be open for 2 weeks until the second Wednesday at 8 pm or until we reach 100 link ups, whichever comes first. The co-hosts and I will be allowed to change our posts on the following Saturday after the linky is live. Please be aware of these changes during the second week. I would suggest that you link up one post each week so you will be able to share something different and current each week. I will also be more strict regarding commenting on the post before yours. |
LINKY TWEETS
I’m not tweeting individual people once the linky is live but I will tweet the people that have been featured and mentioned. I’ll also post a link to the new linky post on the KCACOLS Facebook Group, pin it on my Twitter account and on my Facebook page together with some generic tweets. I will of course, email all of you the link. If you could also share it by clicking the link below that would be FABULOUS!
PLEASE REMEMBER
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IMPORTANT NOTE FOR NEW LINKERS: PLEASE START by commenting on the post linked up before yours FIRST and then comment on any other posts as much as you would like. Also, use the hashtag #KCACOLS when commenting (this is indeed very important so I can then see how many comments you are doing and then be able to feature you in my linky post which is always great for you as you get a backlink which helps improve your DA). |
Thank you so much for all your comments on the host posts and the linky post. As always, I have read and liked all your comments! We will do our best for you to receive a comment from someone on behalf of the linky (either the co-hosts or me).
GUEST CO-HOSTS FROM THE PREVIOUS LINK UP
I would like to say THANK YOU so much to KATE from Kate Lili and SARA from Mind Your Mamma for helping me with the commenting this week! It was lovely having them! 🙂
GUEST CO-HOSTS FOR THIS LINK UP
My first guest co-host this week is CHRISTY from Welsh Mum Of One. This is the first time that I’m having Christy co-hosting this linky! She has joined the linky a few months ago and since she has been very supportive which is really lovely. Christy has a parenting blog where she shared her family journey as well as sharing helpful articles with advice, recommendations, information and life hacks to make everything a little bit easier. Please give her social media accounts some love (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, & Pinterest). She will also be retweeting your tweets this week so please add her twitter handle (@welshmumofone) to your tweets as well as mine. Finally, she has a guest co-host post, Why you should walk to school linked up too. If you could please go there and add a comment it would be AWESOME!
My second guest co-host this week is LAURA from Five Litte Doves. LAURA is co-hosting the linky with me for the second time. This was back in 2016! It is amazing how the time past! Laura has a parenting blog. She writes about the ups and downs of family life, co-parenting, love, loss, and the subjects close to her heart like stillbirth, miscarriage and chronic illness. Please give her some love on her social media accounts which are (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, & Pinterest). She will also be retweeting your tweets this week so please add her twitter handle (@fivelittledove5) to your tweets as well as mine. Finally, she has a guest co-host post, Managing your child’s asthma with LloydsPharmacy linked up too. Please if you could go there and add a comment it would be AWESOME!!
FEATURED POSTS – TOP 3
The person who commented the most this week was CAROL from Virtually All Sorts. WOW! Carol is smashing it lately! And she did it again! She is back at the top 3 commenters for another week! It is now 5 weeks in a row! Yeee! She has been so lovely commenting on so many posts. She has commented on 42 posts! FANTASTIC! Thank you so much, CAROL! Her post from last week was Sun, Moon, Stars ~ Working With The Moon. Please visit her post and give her more love if you can.
The second person who commented a lot was JESSICA from Babi a Fi. And she is also doing amazingly well. Since she is back linking up, it is now the third week in a row that I am featuring Jessica. I love seeing her here. She has done a GREAT job commenting on 31 posts! Amazing! Her post from last week was This Week – April 29th 2018. Please visit her post and give her more love if you can!
The third person(s) who commented a lot were EPRIL & AMY from Eps and Amy. I’m very excited to have them back. They had a little break from linking up and they have just linked up again with us! And look at them, they are back within the top 3 commenters! It is FANTASTIC! It is so nice that they take the time to comment. They were FAB commenting on 22 posts! Thank you so much, EPRIL & AMY! One of their posts from last week was Getting ready for a party!. Please go to their post and give them more love if you can.
FEATURED POSTS – TOP 6
Behind Carol, Jessica and Epril & Amy were SARAH from Mummykind with 15 comments, BREAD from My Queer Little Family with 14 comments and BETH from Life As Mum with 13 comments. Thank you so much to all of you! 🙂
For this week’s linky I am linking up St Tropez Gradual Tan 1 Minute Pre-Shower Tanning Mousse Review and Introducing Lumo Stars, The Northern Brights Collection so I hope you like them! 😉
Please do not forget to follow and check out the #KCACOLS Pinterest Board. We have pinned all your posts from last week’s linky so please go and have a look. There are some great posts that deserve a read!
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Now let’s carry on with the linky:
RULES:
Every 2 weeks I will choose 6 people who have commented A LOT on the linky. Three will be featured and another three will be mentioned in my fortnightly Saturday linky post. This means that 6 people will get a backlink on my new linky post every other Saturday!
1. Be sure to grab the #KCACOLS badge which can be found below or on my sidebar. Simply copy the code from the box below the badge and add it to the text/html at the bottom of your post or place it on your blog sidebar.
2. You can link up to 2 posts. I recommend you to link up one post each week to get the most of the linky.
3. You can share anything that you would like. It is open to absolutely any subject and also you can link up posts that are old or new. You are allowed to link up another linky ONLY if it is a promotional post about the linky and you can do this only once and I expect you to put my badge or a link to my linky and of course to follow the rules regarding commenting.
4. Comment on:
- one of the hosts’ posts (choose one that you would like to comment).
- the guest co-hosts posts.
- the post which is linked up immediately before yours.
- and finally, any other post that you would like to comment on.
That way everybody receives at least two comments (one from the host/guest co-hosts and one from others).
5. This linky will be open every other Saturday from 10 pm and will remain open until the following 2nd Wednesday at 08.00 pm or until we reach 100 link ups, whichever comes first.
6. If you would like us to tweet your post that is absolutely fine, just tweet your link to me @WithFranca, CHRISTY @welshmumofone and LAURA @fivelittledove5 and we will retweet it. Please remember to use the hashtag #KCACOLS.
7. Finally, if you could please follow A Moment With Franca (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Bloglovin, Google+ and YouTube) that would be fantastic!! 😉
I look forward to reading and commenting your posts!! 🙂
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Thanks for stopping by,
Love you all ❤
Franca 💋
Downes Julie says
Thanks for featuring my insta pic lovely
amomentwithfranca says
You are welcome! 🙂 xx
SARAH says
Hi Franca! So pleased that Mummykind got a mention on our first KCACOLS linkup! Hopefully we can comment on even more this time around!
amomentwithfranca says
So excited to feature you. It is lovely to have you! Thank you for being so supportive! 🙂 x
Lana Le says
Love the paddling pool shot. Must be exciting to pull that out! Cheers
amomentwithfranca says
I think so too! I would love to have that too! Julie has done a great job there! 🙂 x
Cassie says
Your life Franca Well jel about the football! Sounds like you’ve had a fun, fab couple of weeks x
amomentwithfranca says
Yes, the football match was a fantastic experience! My girls loved it! Thank you so much for actually reading this post! I really appreciate that! Xxx