Welcome to My Circus Has A New Home...

Good morning everyone this is just to let you all know that I have begun a new journey with Welcome to My Circus as I have chosen to self-host my blog. This is a new and exciting chapter in my blogging career and I hope you will all join and follow me in my new venture as an official blog owner! My new web address is:

http://www.welcometomycircus.com

It has been a fun 11 months here at Blogger but the time has come to bid my farewell as the only way to make progress is to move forward in all aspects of life. I look forward to seeing you all at my new site! Thank you for all the love and support you have given to me, for without all of you this blog wouldn't be!

           xx

Lysa

I Finally Did It…

I have debated for a few months now whether I was ready to self host my blog. Well with my 1 Year Blog Birthday just a month away I decided to take the training wheels off. So, I jumped into it feet first the other day and boy was I lost. With many hours spent staring at the computer screen and a dreaded trip to the library to check out a book to help me.

Wordless Wednesday ~ 12/09/14

 You must ask for written permission to use any of the Pictures from Welcome to My Circus as they are all ©/Copyrighted by me. Thank you for your cooperation in this manner. xx Lysa

The Christmas Countdown...

Oh My Heartsie Girls Wordless Wednesday Linky Party

Going live a day early again this week!!!!!!

Welcome to the second week of December and time for another Oh My Heartsie Girls Wordless Wednesday Link Party...I am so excited and honored to be Co-hosting again this week alongside five other fabulous ladies. If you would please take a few moments to follow all of us on social media we'd greatly appreciate it. I, personally, follow everyone back.

Also, the posts you link do not have to be wordless at all. So come share with all of us your latest blog post. If you have some Christmas ideas or motivation for the rest of us please share them with us. For you can link up to two of your posts. 

I can't wait to read what all of you have written this week so hurry up and link up below. Don't forget to read what our lovely host, Karren, has written for all of us first...

xx

Lysa

Would You Like To Be an

Oh My Heartsie Girl & Co-Host in January?

We are looking for bloggers that are interested in Co-Hosting in January. Being a Co-Host means you will have one of the latest posts from your blog listed in our Wordless Wednesday, which includes a backlink to your blog and includes social media links as well as your choice of previous weeks favorite linkup. This Linkup is widely advertised and shared to over 25,000 viewers and growing. We would love to have you join us and I would love to hear from you, if you would be interested in 

Co-Hosting you can read the details and signup here:

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HELP Me Find Gifts For Under $25 For My Sister and Brother's Families...

Every year we buy gifts for the entire family instead of buying for each niece and nephew as the list keeps on growing. It is also supposed to be much easier on us but that is never the case for me. 

I search desperately every year for the perfect family gift for my brother, Ray's family and for my sister, Melissa's family BUT no matter how early I start my search these gifts are always last on my list to be checked off. You see we have all agreed to stick to a budget of $25 or less and that's where the problem lies for me at least.

The Christmas Countdown...

Christmas Countdown...

Blessed ~ Word of the Week ~ December 5, 2014

So many wonderful things happened this week leaving me feeling truly blessed for all that I have in my life. So that is what I chose to be my Word of the Week:

The Christmas Countdown...

Christmas Countdown...

My “Blonde” Problems #5

Welcome to the fifth edition of My “Blonde” Problems. Now before you all start hating on me, I must confess that I am a natural blonde. I colored my hair black several years ago because I wanted to be taken more seriously. As you can probably tell from that statement alone, as soon as I open my mouth to speak I tend to ruin the façade almost immediately! These problems that I speak of are the type of problems that only happen to me…or so it seems. If you are blonde too, you can probably agree. Here are the “Blonde” Problems that have recently occurred:

The Countdown...

Quote of the Day ~ December 2, 2014

The Oh My Heartsie Girl's Wordless Wednesday Link Party

Welcome to Wordless Wednesday, a day early, which isn't very wordless this week. Here it is only Tuesday and there has been so much excitement already. Yesterday I hit a pretty big milestone, or at least I think it was, on my blog, Welcome to My Circus, by publishing my100^th blog post! Woo Hoo and a great big Yay Me! I wanted to do something special for #100 and figured what better way than to share 7 Facts About Me, don't you agree? 

The Countdown...

My 100th Blog Post ~ 7 Facts About Me

~ Woo Hoo This Is #100 For Me ~

In honor of this being my 100th blog post I have decided to share with all of you 7 Facts About Me. I got the idea after after Jennifer - The Deliberate Mom was nominated to share seven things about herself in one of those fun games spreading across the blogosphere in which you then nominate seven people to do the same. Well Jennifer decided to leave it up to her reader's whether to participate or not instead of only picking seven of them. I really enjoyed getting to know her better and since I was looking for something fun to do for my 100th post thought maybe all of you would like to get to know me a little better too.

The problem I ran into was that it wasn't as easy as I thought it would be to come up with seven facts about myself. I found that I had been pondering the whole thing for hours but getting absolutely nowhere. I finally decided to ask my husband, Kenny, to help me and I also called my friend, Rebecca to ask for her thoughts on the subject at hand. So thanks to their awesome help I am now ready to share seven things you probably didn't know about me.

An Easy and Inexpensive Way to Keep the Kids Busy During Christmas or Family Gatherings

Are you looking for a way to keep the kiddos busy during your festivities this year? This is an easy to setup, limited supervision, and budget friendly activity to keep the kids entertained not only during the Christmas Season but for any holiday or family gathering where there will be little ones. This is something my family has been doing for years and on Thanksgiving I even took part in the activity. I also incorporated the idea into my wedding reception earlier this year.

Quote of the Day ~ December 1, 2014

The Countdown Has Begun...