#KCACOLS – 16th September 2018

Welcome back to #KCACOLS. I hope you are all well! We had 45 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! 🙂

This last couple of weeks saw the last week of the school holidays and then getting ready for school. It was very emotional to see Sienna starting Reception. She was very excited and so far has had the best time. She keeps telling me about all her adventures at school and it makes me very happy to see how settled she is already.  Bella is also very happy to be back at school. She is in Year 4 and they normally mix their classes up a little bit so she is getting used to her new class but she says she likes it even more now which is a relief.

I also took the girls to have their hair cut. It was the first time for Sienna. I cut Bella’s hair a lot and I really like it. It was a lovely experience for both. I went to a Mumsnet and Octopus Energy focus group on Monday and it was super interesting. The rest of the week I wasn’t feeling very well. I got a horrible allergy that sent me to bed. I feel much better now.

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 10.9k 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 JADE from The Parenting Jungle. See her photo below:

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 🙂

NOW BACK TO THE LINKY

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We had 45 link ups. I am very happy to have more linkers this week. We had about 22 posts that needed more comments when the linky closed. By Saturday we reduced this number to1 which is great as this post has 3 comments already. So we got 54 posts with 4 or more comments. Hurrah! That is great 🙂

Regarding the people that have not commented on the post before theirs, we got 10 people on Thursday. By Saturday we reduced this number to 5!

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.

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!

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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 MAINY from Myrealfairy.com and KELLY-ANNE from Mimi Rose And Me for helping me with the commenting this week! It was lovely co-hosting with them!

GUEST CO-HOSTS FOR THIS LINK UP

My first co-host this week is SHAN from Shan Ellis Williams, Mam Rants and Reviews. I’m so excited to have SHAN co-hosting with me for the first time. She has been linking with us for a few months and I know you all know her by now because she has been commenting so much on your lovely posts.  I have mentioned her and featured her before so many times. She is amazing! She has a parenting blog where she writes about mum rants and reviews. She lives in Wales and she has 3 kids. She has worked as a teacher, a carer, a sales manager, and a journalist. She has a passion for Wales, her home, her kids, stationery and books, Slimming World meals, cheap weekends out, beer and craft gin, renovating her dilapidated house, and creative writing.  I’m looking forward to co-hosting with her! Please give some love to her social media accounts which are (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook & Pinterest). She will also be retweeting your tweets this week so please add her twitter handle (@Awdures) to your tweets as well as mine. Finally, she has a guest co-host post, Essential A to Z of parenting linked up too. Please if you could go there and add a comment it would be AWESOME!

My second guest co-host this week is BETH from Life As Mum Blog. This is the second time that Beth is co-hosting with me the linky.  She has been linking with us for a while which is lovely! I have mentioned her and featured her before due to the really nice comments she leaves in this linky. She is lovely and I am very happy she has the time to help me with this link up. Beth has a Fashion, Family and Lifestyle Blog. She is a 25-year-old Welsh Mum of 2 gorgeous kids. Her blog is all about her family life filled with her family adventures, memories as well as some fashion/style, photography and lifestyle posts. Her blog is great so go and check it out. Please give her some love to her social media accounts (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram & Pinterest). She will also be retweeting your tweets this week so please add her twitter handle (@lifeasmumblog) to your tweets as well as mine. Finally, she has a guest co-host post, Plus Size Clothing With Pink Clove 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. This is AMAZING! She is keeping her first place very close to her. She has been here 14 times now! I promised last time that I will give her a badge but time passed so quickly and I didn’t manage to do it but I am on a mission to have one for her soon. I am wondering if Shan will be able to get her position? She is super close every linkup. As always, I am very grateful for her support and for all her kind comments to all of your lovely posts. She has commented on 41 posts! BRILLIANT! Thank you so much, CAROL! Her post from last week was 5 reasons to relish a routine. Please visit her post and give her more love if you can.

Note

Just a quick note to mention that SHAN from Shan Ellis Williams, Mam Rants and Reviews was second with 40 comments but because she is a co-host this week I am featuring Frankie who was after her)

The second person who commented a lot this week (Please see note above) was FRANKIE from Thoroughly Modern Grandma. I am so excited about this! She has been linking with us on and off for a litte while and it is nice to see her back to the last linkup in this way. She has done a fantastic job commenting so many of your lovely posts! Hurrah! She has commented on 17 posts! Thank you so much Frankie! Her post from last week was Coasteering In Croyde Bay North Devon. Please visit her post and give her more love if you can.

The third-person who commented a lot was KAREN from Twice Microwave Tea. This was a lovely surprised. Karen used to link up with but we have not seen her for a while but she decided to join us again this time. And she did amazingly well spreading some love to this linky! She was great commenting on 16 posts! One of her posts from the last link up was 40? How did that happen?. Please go to the post and give some more love if you can.

FEATURED POSTS – TOP 6

Behind Carol, Frankie and Karen were ALI from Ali’s Upside Down World with 15 comments, Pen from The Single Swan with 19 comments and RACHEL from Kidds, Cuddles and Muddy Puddles with 15 comments. Thank you so much to all of you! 🙂

For this week’s linky I am linking up Burning Calories With The Varidesk Pro Plus 36 – Review and Baby Born Interactive Review – It’s A Boy 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, SHAN @Awdures and BETH @lifeasmumblog  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 on your posts!! 🙂

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Thanks for stopping by,

Love you all ❤

Franca  💋