First #KCACOLS for the New Year – 9th January 2022

Welcome back to our FIRST #KCACOLS of 2022. We had 17 linkups 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 make sure if they have been mentioned so they can go back to the linky and comment.

ALSO, PLEASE remember to comment on the co-hosts and host posts. We are allowed to change our posts on the following Saturday after the linky is live. So, please be aware of these changes during the second week. These posts are part of the required comments, so please don’t skip them. 

Remember that FRIDAY NIGHT is the deadline for all comments. 

Happy New Year! Hope you had a lovely time during Christmas! It was nice to have a break spending time with the family. We are now ready to start this new New Year and we really hope 2022 is a good year for all!

Each linkup, I love sharing a photo from my last 2 weeks on Instagram, so here is my favourite:

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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 17 linkups! On Thursday we had 4 posts that needed more comments. By Friday we managed to reduce this number to 0 posts.

Regarding the people that have not commented on the post before theirs, I am so pleased to say that we got everyone doing their required commenting this time. I am so happy with that!

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 from now on. 

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. 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 LINKUP

My second guest co-host this week is KENDRA from Growing Exceptional. I am very excited to have Kendra as my co-host this week for the third time. Kendra has just joined this linky so she is new but since then she has been very supportive. Kendra has a parenting blog and through her blog, she has found a way to continue her connection with families around the world as her children and experiences grow. Her book, “Growing Exceptional Seedlings: Companionship for Parents of Neurodivergent Children” is in publishing now. Through the book and her blog, she hopes her experiences can help parents to reach their children in a different and more meaningful way. 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 (@GrowingExcepti1) to your tweets as well as mine. Finally, she has a guest co-host post, Homeschool differentiation 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 again JADE from The Autism Page. Jade 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, Confidently Communicating With My Non-Speaking 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 SAM from This is Where it is At It is great to have Sam within the top 3 commenters again. It is really nice to be able to feature her again. Thank you, Sam, for your comments. She has commented on 11 posts! One of her posts from last week was Autism and Christmas. Please visit her post and give her more love if you can.

The second person who commented a lot was ZOE from Note Me Happy. This is AMAZING news! I am SUPER excited to have Zoe within the top 3 commenters for the first time. It is really nice to be able to feature her. Thank you, Zoe, for all your comments. She has commented on 9 posts! Her post from last week was The Best Books of 2021 as Chosen by You!. Please visit her post and give her more love if you can.

The third person who commented a lot was LYDIA from Pandora and Max. I have featured and mentioned Lydia several times. It is fantastic that she is back at the top 3 commenters! She is a great supporter of this linky and has always been very lovely with her commenting. She has commented on 8 posts too! Thank you so much, LYDIA! One of her posts from last week was Share Four Somethings – December. Please go to her post and give her more love if you can.

FEATURED POSTS – TOP 6

Behind Sam, Zoe and Lydia were JEREMY from Thirsty Daddy with 7 comments,  JENNIFER from Jennifer Alambert with 6 comments and ASTRID from A Multitude of Musings with 5 comments. Thank you so much to all of you! 🙂

For this week’s linkup, I am linking up An Expert’s Guide To Travelling While Working Remotely and How Can I Avoid Becoming a Victim of Scams? 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 is 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. Any subject is welcomed but please keep it family-friendly. No graphic violence, explicit sexual content, etc. 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, KENDRA @GrowingExcepti1 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  💋