GIVEAWAY CLOSED.
Winners!
Sew, Mama, Sew gift certificate:
SewLindaAnn
Electronic copies of Snarky and Sweet:
cradke
bethandodd
jaya
texheks
javede
Congratulations! I'll be sending emails shortly (after I feed the baby). I've loved all the comments -- everything from sweet statements about having already achieved life dreams to be wives and mothers, to amazing goals like growing your own food or opening businesses. The most poignant were acknowledgments that sometimes our goals change -- we choose the greater good. Best of luck with all the other giveaways, and thanks for lifting my spirits!
I'm giving away $30 at Sew, Mama, Sew! as part of their semi-annual giveaway day madness. Check out all the other amazing stuff!
This year has been a very exciting one for us. My husband and I bought a small business early in the year. We now own Alcor PetroLabs, located in Fort Worth and San Antonio. It's a culmination of one of my husband's life-long dreams. In the time that I've known him, everything he's done in school and his career has been with the aim to own his own business someday. And it's going fabulously well. He loves it, his employees love it, and so do the customers. It makes a huge difference at home to have a happy husband and father. So proud of him.
Elsewhere in the family, this year has brought us a quilt in the Quilt National show, one of many amazing goals my sister Naomi Adams has completed recently. My little sister Georgia Leigh had her sixth child and continues to homeschool, run a fabulous online shop with PDF patterns (check her out this week, her giveaway is fab), and is currently selling her house to move closer to us! OK, so they're moving because of a job, but the closer to us part is very exciting.
And my dear mother has finished a life-long dream of having a book published. I don't think she expected to wait until she had 10 grandchildren to complete this goal. I don't think she expected this particular novel to be the first one published. She works hard, running a shop with vintage patterns, working as a reporter for a local newspaper, and writing novels. I hope she publishes many more. In honor of her, I'm also giving away a few copies of the electronic copy of her first book, Snarky and Sweet. It's clean and fun, a fabulous holiday read for anyone. Think classic Elizabeth Peters or Georgette Heyer, but featuring a Texas schoolteacher.
To enter and win $30 at Sew, Mama, Sew or a copy of Snarky and Sweet, please just leave a comment! If you want to tell me about your life-long goal, go for it. (Mine? PhD.) But any comment gets an entry. If you win an e-book, I'll let you choose Kindle or Nook format. (Kindle e-books can be read on your computer.) Giveaway open until midnight December 16th, winners chosen randomly.
Good luck and enjoy Giveaway Day!
271 comments:
«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 271 of 271To assist my husband to regain his health and strength after a period in hospital. It has given my priorities a real shakedown and I am beginning to realise the hidden blessing of illness. It really makes you appreciate your dear ones and not take them for granted.
My dream at the moment is to get a job after being off sick for 3 years and very poor! My not be a lifelong goal, but it's a mountain for me at the moment.
jowynj(at)blueyonder(dot)co(dot)uk
My goal in life is to be happy. :D
Life long goal is to quit my job and sew all day long. Haha, but seriously, my goal is to turn this into a successful business.
-Safiya (atouchoftheblues at gmail dot com)
No life long goals that I am working on right now, but current;y trying to learn more patience with my small but very active 3 yr old
My goal is to have no one else in our house fall ill. They've all had something in one form or another since Halloween!
I'd love to open a fabric shop (brick and mortar, not online). Thanks for the chance!
My goal...oi... balance between work and private life!
I'd be thrilled with the gift certificate! Thanks for the chance!
Right now staying employed and paying the bills is my goal. Lifelong? Celebrating a 50th anniversary would be great. :)
ewholihan at emc dot org
thanks for a great giveaway! My goal is to learn more!
I'd like to get a book published one of these days, but right now I'm working on raising two children and hoping that they turn out to be decent upstanding citizens :)
My ultimate goal is to start my own clothing line! Thanks for the giveaway!
Thanks for the giveaway!
wv: dungspop
lifelong goal? Ed.D.!
Love your giveaway choices - very exciting news from your whole family, but your mom's achievement especially speaks to me! My (current) life goal is to be able to QUILT more often!!!
My goal is to have a small farm. Nothing major, just large enough to supply us with most of the produce we need, as well as eggs, and possibly milk from sheep or goats.
lifelong goal... so hard. To be a really good and kind person, who works hard and regrets very little.
Wow, sounds like you guys have had a productive and blessed year. Good for you!
My goal and dream would be to move back to our hometown in Western Michigan and have a hobby farm. If we aren't able to move back to Michigan, we'd love to have the hobby farm and a mother-in-law cottage here in North Dakota
That's a really amazing dream to come true.
Mu goals is to visit a list of places I've been adding to slowly and after great consideration.
my dream? to meet a nice guy who actually likes me for who i am. :) and to have travel. all over the world. :)
Thanks for the chance!
Fabulous, what a year! It sounds sappy, but my main goal right now is to raise a happy, healthy, well-adjusted son. He's 4 now, so I have time to figure out what goal to follow that with.
I've always wanted to open a bake shop. Congrats to your awesome mom for not giving up on her dream all these years!
I want for my son to graduate from college. I never had a chance to go, and after he graduates, I want to go. He's in middle school now. Nook books can also be read on a computer or on a tablet. Thank's for the chance to win
mine to start my own business
I would love to find a part time accounting job I can do at home that doesn't involve being self-employed.
My dream was to marry the man of my dreams and I did! We have had 38 wonderful years together and counting!
My goal is to make a career out of my sewing business. And also to be a great mom! :) I'm working hard at both!
Jennifer
jennifereladd at yahoo dot com
My goal would be to pay off the debt we got in when my husband lost his job a couple of year ago, we kept a roof over our heads but it has been tight. So glad he has a good job now.
Wow- you are a talented family! I hope to write a children's book someday.....
Wonderful give-away! Thanks for the opportunity! :)
I'm dreaming of getting healthier. heatherkowens (at) yahoo dot com
Thanks for the generous giveaway and a chance to win!
I love to start a business :D
Thanks for the chance!
Life long goal? Hmm..I've always wanted to raise a happy, healthy and well rounded family.
My lifelong goal is to own a house. Thanks for the giveaway. A PhD would be great, too, but there's not one in my field of study yet. akmajor (at) gmail (dot) com
My goal is to be a happy and content person. So far I am struggling.
I would love to have another baby (or 2:-) )
Thanks for the giveaway!
I would love to win your giveaway! My life-long goal is to be a writer too- maybe of craft books or (this is kind of unusual) crossword puzzles.
great giveaway!
Gift certificates are my favorite!!!
Great giveaway--thanks for the chance! Life long dream? Probably to own a business and run it with my husband.
My lifelong goal is to win the lottery!! no really - I don't have a lifelong goal.
My goal? At the moment to get my son healthy. It has been a marathon year of pneumonia, adenoids, asthma, etc.
Thank you for the giveaway. Please give her my congratulations on publishing her first book! My husband published his first book this year too. I'm so excited for him.
WOw would love to win this!
I don't think I have any lifelong goal that I haven't reached-I just wanted to graduate from college, find and marry the love of my life, have at least one kid, and be able to be a stay-at-home mom. All accomplished! I would like to have more kids hopefully.
And I guess I really really want to make a quilt someday-both my Grandmas are quilters and in their 70's and I really want to learn as much as I can from them before they are too old to be able to share their vast knowledge anymore. So I guess I'll go with making a quilt as my lifelong goal!
I'd like to work in travel once my kids are all in school :)
ourbusylittlebunch(at)hotmail(dot)com
My goal is to have a little farm and grow most my own food.
Thanks for doing this. What a wonderful family you have.
Hmmm - really want to move my family w/ six kiddos to a bigger house so we have enough room:-) But - I'm content where we are.
Making new friends and keeping the old! roguekeri at live dot com
My lifelong goal - hm, I have many. Learning to Quilt was one of them. Next on the list - maybe chill out?
Thanks for a chance to win the gift certificate. I want to have my own business some day.
Life goal...to be a mother my children will enjoy being around when they are adults!
What an accomplished family! No unmet life time goal. I wanted to be a wife and mother and I am. Thanks for the chance at your giveaway.
My life long goal is for Froggy Girl Designs to become a recognized household name. We'll see if it ever happens!
When I was little I wanted to have kids. The Good Lord Blessed me with a daughter and a son. Now I've been Blessed again as I have a grandson. Looking forward to many more. hehe.
Thank you for your giveaway and a chance to win.
usairdoll(at)gmail(dot)com
I've always wanted to get published.
Wonderful giveaway!
Sounds like a great year for you and your family! Thanks for the giveaway.
No major lifelong goals - just to be happy, healthy and enjoy my family!
Thank for the opportunity to win such an generous giveaway. One lifelong goal I have is to produce most of the food my family eats
Gosh, life long goal. Huh. I guess to find a career with little stress that make me feel fulfilled?
Hello! Thanks for a great giveaway! I'm a new follower! Happy Holidays! :)
My lifelong, well at least my adult dream, has been to become a grandmother. It has happened and is the most awesome thing in the world.
madduxfan3@aol.com
Goal? I'd like to publish a book. Yes. I've already met my goal of becoming a wife and mother, so two down, one to go, eh? :)
just trying to scoot in, thanks for the giveaway opportunity!
berly at uw dot edu
My life-long goal is also to get a book published. Inspiration! :)
Thanks for the opportunity to win! :)
sarita0818 at comcast dot net
Are you still taking comments? My life's ambition is to get my son out of his toddler years alive ;) I'd like to also run a marathon. Thanks for visiting my during giveaway day!
thank you, Morgan, I Loove reading books and your mom's book seems just perfect. Thanks for the giveaway!
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