Welcome back to #KCACOLS. We had 36 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! 🙂
PLEASE READ
Please remember that this linky is all about commenting hence the reward of being featured. I cannot chase people individually. That is why I send the “Thank You Email” so people can check the list and also make sure if they have been mentioned so they can go back to the linky and do their commenting.
Also, remember that FRIDAY NIGHT is the deadline for all comments.
Hurrah for the Summer holidays! I can’t believe school is finally out for summer. We were able to send our girls back to school in June which was a big help but I know a lot of you didn’t have this option or decided to stay at home. So I would like to congratulate you all for doing such an amazing job with homeschooling and juggling at the same time with life. I did it for 2 months and it was very hard.
The last couple of weeks have been hectic dealing with my last rep duties after 1 year and 4 months. I started helping Sienna’s class the last term of Reception and then decided to carry on for the whole Year 1. It was a lot of work but I enjoyed it a lot. I had to organise the teacher’s gifts and preparing a farewell bundle for a couple of kids that were leaving. I prepared a video and a photobook for them. I really enjoyed seeing their happy faces when they received them. The lovely parents were so kind and lovely and sent me flowers with a voucher thanking for my rep duties all this time. It made me very emotional.
We managed to go to Port Lympne Park last weekend and it was all worth it. We had a great time. We also stopped by the nearest beach and it was so lovely. We were dying to do that for a long time.
Each linkup, I love sharing a photo from my last 2 weeks on Instagram, so here is my favourite:
#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! We have more than 13.9k photos that have used the hashtag which is lovely! I love when you use the hashtag. After a lot of consideration, I have decided that I will not do a feature on my post any more. But please keep using the hashtag. I always check it and like all the photos there.
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 36 linkups! We had more new linkers for this linkup too. There were 3 new linkers. On Thursday we had 12 posts that needed more comments. By Friday night (deadline for commenting) we manage to reduce this number to 0 posts. We did it! I am so happy we got 4 or more comments for every single post that linked up with us! Hurrah!
Regarding the people that have not commented on the post before theirs, we got 13 people on Thursday. By Friday night, we reduced this number to 5 people. I’m glad we managed to reduce this number too.
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.
I also wanted to say that I will need all your comments to be done by Friday as I won’t be doing any counting on Saturdays anymore. So Friday Night will be the deadline for all comments for now on.
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 JADE from The Autism Page and MALIN from Sensational Learning With Penguin for helping me with the commenting this week! They did a great job! 🙂
GUEST CO-HOSTS FOR THIS LINK UP
My first guest co-host this week is HELEN from Twins Tantrums and cold coffee. I am so excited to have Helen as my co-host this week for the first time. Helen joined this linky a few weeks ago and since then she has been very active within the linky. Helen is a stay at home mum of 3 kids under 3 (2 of them are twins). She is based in Devon. She has a parenting blog and writes about her life with her boys and how ridiculous it can be some days dealing with such young children. She has a background in journalism. She spent nearly 15 years as a reporter and deputy news editor at the Plymouth Herald newspaper and still write for them as a columnist. She also has been travel writing for over 10 years. She is sarcastic, real and especially honest. Please give some love to 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 (@twinstantrums) to your tweets as well as mine. Finally, she has a guest co-host post, 15 Things I’ve Learned During Lockdown – The Realistic Version! 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 JADE from The Autism Page. This is the second time in a row that Jade is helping me to co-host the linky. It was so helpful that she was also available for this new linkup. She helps me with the linky on a regular basis which is lovely. Jade is a married mum of two boys (5 & 3). She is based in the West Country between Bristol and Bath. She has a parenting blog where she shares information and resources related to autism that has been helpful to them since her eldest child was diagnosed at 2 years old. She also has another blog The Breakfast Page where she writes about breakfasts at home, review breakfasts when she is out as well as cookbook reviews. I am looking forward to co-hosting with her. 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 (@theautismpage) to your tweets as well as mine. Finally, she has a guest co-host post, How To Play With An Autistic Child linked up too. If you could please go there and add a comment it would be AWESOME!
FEATURED POSTS – TOP 3
The first person who commented a lot was RACHEL from Children’s of Wanderlust. This is fantastic news! I am very happy to have Rachel within the top 3 commenters for the second time. She is a new linker which is amazing. Thank yous so much Rachel for all your lovely comments. She has commented on 26 posts! One of her posts from last week was 5 Best Compact Travel Games for Children Please visit her post and give her more love if you can
The second person who commented a lot was HANNAH from Hannah and the twiglets. This is also fantastic news! I am very happy to have Hannah within the top 3 commenters for the third time. She is a relatively new linker which so lovely to see. Thank yous so much Hannah for all your lovely comments. She has commented on 19 posts! One of her posts from last week was A Letter To My Twins On Their Fifth Birthday. Please visit her post and give her more love if you can.
The third person who commented a lot was NANCY from Around The World At the Weekend. I am so excited about this! This is the first time that I am featuring Nancy. Yee! She has joined us a coupled of linkups ago so it is so lovely to see her already within the top 3 commenters! It is fantastic! She has done a fabulous job. I am always so excited to have new linkers and being able to feature them so quickly. Thank yous so much Nancy for all your comments. She has commented on 16 posts! One of her posts from last week was Liverpool Restaurants from Around the World which are perfect to visit with Kids. Please visit her post and give her more love if you can.
FEATURED POSTS – TOP 6
Note: Just a quick note to mention that Helen from Twins Tantrums and cold coffee was within the top 6 with 14 comments but because she is a co-host this week I am featuring Lydia who was next in the list)
Behind Rachel, Hannah and Nancy were TRACEY from The Desperate Housewife with 15 comments, SARAH-MARIE from Tired But Crafty Mummy with 14 comments and LYDIA from Pandora and Max with 12 comments. Thank you so much to all of you! 🙂
For this week’s linky I am linking up 7 Things To Do To Help Your Child With Anxiety Over Bedtime Fears and Toy Storage Ideas For Parents so I hope you like it! 😉
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, HELEN @twinstantrums and JADE @theautismpage 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, 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 💋
Jasmine Goodwin says
Hello Franca, thank you so much for hosting the party each week.
amomentwithfranca says
Aww thank you Jasmine. So lovely to have you xx
Brenda says
Stopping by to say thanks for being such a great host!