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Easter Basket Giveaway

March 18, 2013 By Erica Deuel 74 Comments

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I can’t believe Spring is almost here and Easter is right around the corner.  If you are like me, you are ready for some warmer weather and sunshine!  To kick off this excitement of spring “springing”, I have joined up with 24 other bloggers to create an Easter basket themed giveaway blog hop!  My basket is only one of 25 baskets available today as giveaways.  I have had so much fun creating some special things for one of you!

As parents, we spend so much time preparing those around us for the change of seasons.  We buy our kids new spring clothes.  We declutter our houses…or maybe try to sell a house, ahem ahem…oh that might only be me :).  Either way this gift is to pamper you or if you are one of my male readers, your girl.

Check out all the items in my giveaway basket, enter my rafflecopter giveaway, and then check out the other baskets available today on some awesome blogs and enter those too!

vintage love wood sign

target dollar section

necklace

handmade earrings

gorgeous hair bows

do what you love cards

If you win you will receive:

  • One handmade vintage wood “love” sign
  • A few goodies from Target
  • One handmade necklace
  • Two pairs of earrings that I have made
  • Two of my favorite hair clips
  • A set of my “Do What You Love” stationary cards and envelopes (one of my newest creations)

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I have had so much fun creating this giveaway. I hope you love every item as much as I do!  To enter to win these goodies, simply let the rafflecopter widget load, and enter in as many ways as you want!  The winner will be announced Friday 3/22/13.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

This gift basket is one of 25 available from some amazing bloggers today.  Please go check out all the amazing baskets.  Enter all of them! You are bound to win one of them, right!?

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(1) Mad Scientist Basket from Milk and Cookies
(2) “See the Light” Easter Art Basket from Classic Housewife
(3) Tea Time Basket from See Jamie Blog
(4) Butterfly Basket from Spell Outloud
(5) Family Movie Night Basket from Jennifer A. Janes

(6) Pamper the Homeschool Mom Basket from Granola Mom 4 God
(7) Freezer Cooking Basket from Motherhood on a Dime
(8) Hodgepodge Basket from Hodgepodge
(9) Healthy Living and Fitness Basket from Forever, For Always, No Matter What
(10) Making Writing Fun Basket from This Reading Mama

(11) Coffee: Fuel for Homeschooling Moms Basket from Homeschoolin’ Mama
(12) Mom’s Quiet Time Basket from Upside Down Homeschooling
(13) Missionary Basket from Our Journey Westward
(14) Happy Mom Basket from Habits for a Happy Home
(15) Crafty Goodness Basket from Mamas Learning Corner

(16) Rejuvenate the Mom Basket from Spoonful of Imagination
(17) Beginner’s Math Manipulatives Basket from Meet Penny
(18) Welcome Spring: Gardening Basket from Abundant Life
(19) Healthy Living Basket from The Encouraging Home
(20) Mom’s Pampering Basket from Teaching Mama

(21) Kid’s Gardening Basket from Momma Hopper
(22) The Gift of Parenting Basket from Teachers of Good Things
(23) Preschool Crafts Basket from It’s Gravy, Baby!
(24) All the Extras – Electives and Enrichment Basket from Curriculum Choice
(25) Homeschool Mom Basket Case Basket from Classic Housewife

Aren’t there some amazing other baskets up for grabs!?  I am going to enter ALL of these giveaways.  There are some generous bloggers in this group that are just amazing people.  I hope you will join me on my blog hop quest today!  Thanks so much for stopping by.  I hope you had a great weekend and happy ALMOST spring!

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We are Moving!

February 14, 2013 By Erica Deuel 11 Comments

We are moving!  Or we are trying!  Last week I shared that I had fallen into my hole. Today, I want to explain a little bit as to why and share some of the exciting things we have facing us as we move forward.

For about a year and a half, we have been talking and praying about what was next for us as a family.  There have been a series of events like our best friends moving across the country and our family month-long road trip. These have been chapters in “our story” and have given us the sense that something new was coming.  There have been ideas, conversations, and dreams all over the place.  Its been exciting and fun, but no clarity was given until this past fall.

We now have a dream that is coming into a plan that we believe God has placed directly in our hearts.  I have LOTS more details coming to what is next for us, but for now, the part where it all melted down.

One thing in the mix of the coming changes was knowing we need to sell our house.  Shortly after we made the decision to sell, a situation presented itself to us, and we thought we had sold our house before even placing it on the market.  It felt like all the “arrows” and “signs” were saying YES!

We were then surprised by the news two weeks ago that the deal we had been working on for about two months, fell through.  We were crushed, and that is where you heard from me last week.  I had sat on the news for a week, opened up to you, and then many of you all poured tons of love and kindness out to me in response.  I STILL have not responded to every loving message I received through emails, comments, texts, facebook messages, in person hugs, phone calls, and tweets.  I have felt supported and encouraged.  Thank you for caring for me and helping to carry me through.  Please know that I will respond to each and every message I have received.  You all have built into me, and I am forever grateful.

You might have seen this picture on instagram last week, if you follow me there.

erica deuelA smile was on my face.

My Valentines Day present from Brin came in the mail, as I was processing what was next for us as a family.  Questions were racing through my mind like “Did the lost sale of our house mean a “no” to our plan?”   “Was it just a bump in the road that we had to over come?”  “Why did we have to go down this road for two months to drag out acting on the next step?”  I was emotionally drained and discouraged and then Brin’s package arrived.  I had never done a blogger swap until I signed up for this one and was paired with  Brin at Bold Butter Baby.  She way outdid herself on our Valentines Day swap.  See what I mean…

valentines day present

Her package came and it had lots of my favorite stuff.  The candy is amazing…does this girl get me or what?  Yes, candy does brighten my day.

candy

I adore the coffee mug and all the bright-colored socks she chose for me.  Two of my obsessions are COLOR and socks…and she paired the two together. Amazing.

polka dot mug

target socks

Did you catch that infinity scarf I am wearing?  She ordered that for me, and I am obsessed with it.  Brin WAY over did herself, and I was truly teary eyed opening her present and feeling the love pour out.

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What I have seen modeled in Brin, as I have gotten to know her is strength.  Through the process of email, twitter, instagram, and lots of direct messages I have seen and heard how Brin and her husband have moved in the last few weeks.  They have a young active boy, Dexter, and Brin has been really sick.  She’s had a lot going on, yet she has reached out to me.  One day I literally was crying on my floor direct tweeting with her about my house and get this…some one stole my present to her.  She found the remains of the packaging.  I was crushed.  She deserves my present and so much more.  I wish I could send her another right now.  I will some day.

What surprised me is how in a dark moment, the person that was there for me and was lifting me up was a new friend.  Direct tweeting me hope and perspective.  It is moments like this (after being pulled out of them and can look back) that I see that I was not given the short stick. God has not forgotten me and is loving me by orchestrating an even better story for me.  I have found a new friend and I know I will always cheer her on.  Someday, I will meet this girl in person.

It is funny how circumstances happen in your life that you don’t get, you don’t want, yet something good becomes of it.  I have gone from feeling God’s plan was laid out for us to becoming more raw and accepting that although our path may be before us…we might have to work, struggle, and endure a little to get there.  Just because we sense God’s desires for us, does not make the path easy and simple.  I’m finding that it means we have the peace to continue on.

We have decided to put our house on the market with a realtor.  Exactly one week from tomorrow it will be up for sale.  We have been busting butt to get things cleared out, closets simplified, and pictures packed away.  It’s been busy and our house is currently at the “it gets worse before it gets better stage,” but we are making progress.

Wearing a pair of my new socks, while cleaning out my vanity cabinet.  A not fun job, made better with new/fun socks.
Wearing a pair of my new socks, while cleaning out my vanity cabinet. A not fun job, made better with new/fun socks.

I am convinced now that we will see God’s might and hand in “our story” even more clearly than if that first sale had gone through.  Thank you for being a tool used to impact and encourage me.  Tomorrow, I will lay out what we have been doing and still have to do around the house.  On Monday, I will share WHY we want to move.

Thank you Brin for the amazing package.  Please visit Brin and say hi.  I highly recommend her facebook, twitter, instagram, and blog.  Today is the last day to enter her Cricut giveaway.  Enter it and check out the sweetest post she wrote about me.

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Hey Girl

February 9, 2013 By Erica Deuel 15 Comments

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Hey Girl! If you’ve spent 10 minutes online in the past year I’m sure you’ve come across the Ryan Gosling “Hey Girl” quotes. Sometimes I’ll read one that will have me laughing for days. My friends and I have made it a habit to text new ones to each other to share in the laughs. Well, Kelly, at View Along the Way, came up with the BRILLIANT idea to create our own “Hey Girl” series and make it a link up party.

Laying in bed last night, I was reading the other lady’s posts at the link up party. Oh my gosh. I was dying laughing. Make sure to click over and check them out. But before you do, here are my “Hey Girls” featuring my husband, Matt. Enjoy!

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hey girl diy

cute husband

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hey girl post

matt

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Oh, the things he has to put up with for being married to a DIY blogger.  I’m so thankful we can laugh about these parts of our lives.  I am blessed!

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I have linked this post up at A View Along the Way.

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Kids of a blogger

February 4, 2013 By Erica Deuel 2 Comments

I had a request from a sweet friend and reader to hear more of what my kids say.  They are such a big part of my blog content, I love the idea of allowing you to see more of who they are.  With a professional video editor for a husband, I should do more videos.  Today, I am proud to say…I did this video all by myself (except for getting it on You Tube of course :)).  Here is why…

As I mentioned in my Valentines Day mantel post, my kids were scheming up a plan during the mantel’s photo shoot.  It was such a sweet moment of my kids’ hearts (and I had my camera out), that I knew I had the opportunity to let you see a window into their hearts and more of who they are.  Enjoy!

Aren’t they cute!?  Now all you mom’s of boys know that in the midst of sweet moments, distractions (aka wrestle fights) can throw everyone off course.  Do you recognize this sequence below?

brothers wrestling fight

You know those mama snuggles and one remorseful, funny brother…

boy comedian

…and the giggles and happy boy returns!

boy giggles

In a moment of giggles, all the tears are forgotten and they are best friends again.

cuddled on the floor

This is all happening while the little girl continues on normally with her afternoon snack…

goldfish

…and plays happily with her Mickey Mouse doll, rocking it to sleep.

little girl with mickey mouseTears and crying brother fights don’t even phase her.  It’s just normal life.

So, we all played and I took more pictures, before we got back on track with preparing “daddy’s special dinner” as talked about in the video.

kid comedian

boy playing

mother daughter

Caleb ran around and found things he wanted to display on the dinner table, and he came up with this setting all on his own.

valentines day table decor

He propped up the paper mache stars they painted that week against a vase of flowers and berries he cut in the backyard.  He gathered candles, a family picture, and our decor pine cones.  The boy has style.

Later at dinner, Reagan wanted her star and Caleb said “now it doesn’t look right” as he gave it to her.  He was able to process why he thought that out loud, and his answer left Matt and I smiling (and slightly giggling on the inside).  He said there was now a “hole” in the layout.  What five year old can see and know that!?  I adore this boy.

special daddy dinner

We had a great dinner, and I couldn’t be a prouder mom of my three littles.

If you are ever wondering about the kids of a blogger, they are just real kids.  They climb on chairs, destroy the house in a matter of minutes, and try to take off their mama’s socks.  These are mine, and I am crazy about them.

I hope you had a great weekend!

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