#KCACOLS – 27th November 2016

Welcome back to my linky #KCACOLS. I hope you all had a fantastic week! We did FANTASTIC with 135 link ups! 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 in the #KCACOLS linky page! 🙂

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There will be no #KCACOLS next Saturday 3rd December because my sister is visiting us for the week so I really want to focus on her and not be thinking about the linky. I don’t get to see her very often so I’m really looking forward to some nice quality family time! The linky will be back again on Saturday 10th December. Just so you know in advance there will also be a 2-week break during Christmas and the New Year. So the last link up of the year will be on Saturday 17th December and then we will be back on Saturday 7th January 2017. I thought it would be nice to let you know in advance. 🙂 

I had a super busy but super cool week. We had lots of events and all of them were amazing. On Tuesday I went to learn all about MacDonalds and even made my own Big Mac! Yay! On Thursday we all went to an event held by Pine & Needles where we got to pick our Christmas Tree. This was so exciting! We will get our tree next week! Finally on Friday we went to Lapland UK! OMG guys this place is a dream come true for kids! Actually for us parents too, LOL! It was a really magical Christmas experience! Finally, I’m now really looking forward to Monday when I will be heading off to Paris with 14 other British Parenting Bloggers to E-Fluent, an international conference for influential parenting bloggers! I feel so honoured to have been asked to be a part of this! Eeek I can’t wait! 🙂

Each week I love sharing a couple of photos from my week on Instagram, so here are 2 of my favourite ones:

INSTAGRAM COMMUNITY

Thank you so much for all the people that joined us last week for our #UnPocoDeTodoUK link up. We had a good week with lots of you joining! Thank you. TRACEY will host the linky on Monday 28th November at 9pm until midnight on Friday 11th. The theme for next week is “THINGS WE LOVE“. I will not be part of the linky next week due to being in Paris but everything will still be working with my lovely co-hosts. I hope lots of you can join them!

Thank you so much too for using the #KCACOLS hashtag on Instagram for all your photos. We have 2,936 photos! I love that it is growing every day! It is lovely to see all your photos there! I would love it if more of you could also use the hashtag for your photos and of course it would be even better if we all also spread some love there! From now on, I will be featuring a photo from the community that has caught my eye during the week or since the last link up. This week I’m featuring Andrea’s photo from Topsy Turvy Tribe.

NOW BACK TO THE LINKY:

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 the linky post on the Facebook Group, pin it on my Twitter account and on my Facebook page together with some generic tweets. If you could also share it by clicking the link below that would be FABULOUS!

Tweet Me!

First I would like to apologise as I didn’t have the time to send the Thank You email this week. I really ran out of time, but thanks to the fantastic KCACOLS CROWD Facebook group, I was able to update you all there. We had the worst week in terms of commenting despite having more linkers this week. I was very upset because on Thursday we had about 74 posts that needed more comments. By today it went down to about 40 posts. It is still a lot but it was good to see it went down. In general the commenting is not as it used to be. I guess it is because we are all busy and as long as we are all happy and you receive some love I’m okay with it. Let’s keep trying to be generous and commenting as much as we can if that’s okay?

What I’m not happy with is when people don’t do the minimum requirement as it really messes up everything else. There is a big number of people that are not commenting AT ALL and I don’t like that. I hope I don’t have to be doing a list of the people that have not done their commenting. I do have that list and I know exactly who you are so please do not link and run as it is not acceptable to not comment on the post before yours.

Also just a reminder that I am not pushing for the 4 comments per post anymore. I will keep showing a list of posts that have less comments to encourage people to comment more on those but after that I will not keep asking. It will be lovely if we can get a minimum of 2 comments per post but of course we should be aiming for more.

PLEASE Remember to approve your comments and check your SPAM folders (this is such a HUGE problem for me as it keeps being part of why I can’t have a current list as I know for sure lots of posts have comments that have not been approved yet)

Also, please remember that I’m expecting a minimum of 5 comments per person (1 host, 3 co-hosts and the post before yours) and if you link up 2 posts I would expect 6 comments as a minimum per person (1 host, 3 co-hosts, the posts before yours and 1 more )

Please do not forget to comment on the post before yours. If you have any problems commenting on the post before yours please just send me a message and I will do my best to help. AGAIN, please do not link up and run. Finally, do not forget to add the linky badge. 

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: If you receive a lot of comments, try to reciprocate to the ones that have taken the time to comment on your post. It is all about being generous with each other and spreading lots of love.

IMPORTANT NOTE FOR NEW LINKERS:

PLEASE START with commenting on the post linked up before yours FIRST and then go around commenting 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).

MONTHLY GUEST CO-HOST

This week the “monthly” guest co-host is TRACEY from One Frazzled Mum. Here are her social media accounts (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, & Pinterest). She will also be retweeting your tweets this week so please add her twitter handle (@frazzledmumblog) to your tweets as well as mine. Finally, she has a guest co-host post, Personalised Leggings from Bags of Love linked up too. Please if you could go there and add a comment it would be AWESOME!!

GUEST CO-HOSTS FROM PREVIOUS LINK 

I would like to say THANK YOU so much to REBECCA from Becster {dot} Com and SHARON from After the Playground for helping me with the commenting this week! They have both co-hosted before so they did a wonderful job as expected. It was great having them! They have been FANTASTIC! 🙂 

GUEST CO-HOSTS FOR THIS WEEK

My first guest co-host for this week is NICOLE from The Mum Reviews. This is the first time that I’m having Nicole co-hosting this linky! She joined us not long ago. She has become a regular linker since then! I’m very happy to have her! These are her social media accounts (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, & Pinterest). She will also be retweeting your tweets this week so please add her twitter handle (@themumreviews) to your tweets as well as mine. Finally, she has a guest co-host post, Come to the Dark Side. We have cakes. (Bakerdays review & giveaway) 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 LAURA from Five Little Doves. This is also the first time that I’m having Laura co-hosting this linky! 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, Snapshots of our Life 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 RACHEL from Ordinary Hopes. This is the first time that Rachel is the top commenter. I’m very happy to have her at the top. She has been linking with us for a few months now. She was GREAT commenting on 47 posts! Thank you so much, MADELINE! One of her posts from last week was, Why? Please go to her post and give her more love if you can.

The second person who commented the most this week was EMMA from Me and B Make Tea. Emma is back again on the top 3. She has also co-hosted with me before. She is a big supporter of the linky and I love that! As always, It is really nice to have her here. She was FANTASTIC commenting on 43 posts! Thank you so much, EMMA! One of her posts from last week was, Why I won’t Shop at Littlewoods this Christmas Please go to her post and give her more love if you can.

The third person who commented a lot this week was NATASHA from Serenity You. I’m so excited to have Natasha as a top commenter again. She used to link up more a few months ago and then she stopped so it is nice to see her back. She was GREAT commenting on 36 posts! Thank you so much, NATASHA! One of her posts from last week was Kids Christmas Gift Guide 2016. Please go to her post and give her more love if you can.

FEATURED POSTS – TOP 6

Behind Becky, Ember and Madeline were LAURA from Mumma & Co with 26 comments, MADDY from The Speed Mum with 23 comments and LAURA from Bubsy Diaries with 20 comments. Thank you so much, lovely ladies!!! 🙂

For this week’s linky I am linking up Anki Overdrive – The Christmas Party of the Future and Our Magical Visit to Lapland UK 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:

Each week I will choose 6 people who have commented A LOT within the linky. Three will be featured and another three will be mentioned on my Saturday linky post. This means that 6 people will get a backlink on my new linky post each 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 per week.

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 on as I will be linking up 2 posts every week if possible). Then comment the guest co-hosts and the monthly co-host. Then comment on 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 Saturday from 10 pm and will remain open until Wednesday at 11.59 pm.

6. If you would like us to tweet your post that is absolutely fine, just tweet your link to me @WithFranca, Tracey @frazzledmumblog, Nicole @themumreviews 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  💋