#KCACOLS – 22nd July 2018

Welcome back to #KCACOLS. I hope you are all well! We had 42 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! 🙂

Well right now, we expected to be back in the UK or at least driving back home. But no, that is not the situation. You won’t believe what happened to us! We missed our ferry! Yes, the last thing that you would expect to happen to you with 2 little girls is what actually happened to us! What a nightmare! So now, we are just getting on the ferry and we will travel overnight. We couldn’t get a cabin so we will have to sleep on reclining chairs instead! Not sure how this experience will be with these 2 little ones but I really hope they are tired enough so they just fall asleep straight away until the morning. Fingers crossed! Wish me luck!

Despite this, we had an amazing week at Siblu Holidays in Domaine de Kerlann in France. OMG, this place is amazing. They have lots of activities to entertain the kids as well as an indoor pool and outdoor pool. You can hire bikes and there is also a kids clubs where they can play, dance and sing along. We even had the opportunity to witness France winning the World Cup 2018 while we were in the country! What a historic moment for us to be there for!  My girls really had an amazing time and we are super sad to leave! If you are looking for a beach/pool family holiday outside the UK, I highly recommend you to check out Siblu campsites out!

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 10.5k 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 VICKY from The Mummy Bubble. 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 🙂

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

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We had 42 link ups and about 12 posts needed more comments when the linky closed. By Saturday we reduced this number to 5! From these 5 posts, 4 have 3 comments, 2 have 2 comments and 2 have 0 comments (this is definitely a pending comment matter as I know some comments have been done including myself). So we got 37 posts with 4 or more comments.

Regarding the people that have not commented on the post before theirs, we got 11 people on Thursday. I have not had the chance to check this today as you know we were stuck in France due to missing our ferry. So please apologise for this.

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 TRACY from View From The Beach Chair and TRACEY from Oh Pretty City for helping me with the commenting this week! It was lovely co-hosting with them!

GUEST CO-HOSTS FOR THIS LINK UP

FEATURED POSTS – TOP 3

The person who commented the most this week was CAROL from Virtually All Sorts. WOW! I am really lost of words now! She has been at the top of the commenting for 10 weeks! I can’t believe it. She is amazing! She has been WONDERFUL commenting on so many posts. She has commented on 31 posts! BRILLIANT! Thank you so much, CAROL! Her post from last week was Ideas To Keep Your Kids Reading Over Summer. Please visit her post and give her more love if you can.

The second person who commented a lot was SHAN from Shan Ellis Williams, Mam Rants and Reviews. This is the second time that Shan is at at the top 3 commenters! I am so happy to see her here again and getting closest to be at the top 3 commenters! Maybe next time she will beat Carol! lol 😉 She has become such a lovely supporter of the linky which makes me very happy. She has been fantastic commenting on lots of your lovely posts. She has commented on 29 posts! AMAZING! Her post from last week was A home Spa day using The Body Shop products. Please visit her post and give her more love if you can!

The third person who commented a lot was BREAD from Queer Little Family. She is back in the top 3 commenters again! She is FANTASTIC! She was a co-host for the last linkup and as always it was great having her. She does so many lovely comments every linkup which is really nice. It is wonderful to have her as part of our little community! She has commented on 24 posts! HURRAH! One of her posts from last week was Looking At Our First Nine Months On Our Sixth Anniversary. Please visit her post and give her more love if you can.

FEATURED POSTS – TOP 6

Behind Carol, Sarah and Shan were LISA from Lisa Pomerantzster Blog with 18 comments, MADELINE from  This Glorious Life with 16 comments and BETH from Life as Mum with 15 comments. Thank you so much to all of you! 🙂

For this week’s linky I am linking up Eating at CAU in Wimbledon and 7 Inspirational Children’s Book Characters 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, JESS @jess__powell and CASSIE @GorgeousGsmama 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  💋