Friday Fun Links

Good News and Chocolate Bunnies

Posted by teresak on April 21, 2011 7 Comments

There’s good news at NanaHood this week. The good news is my friend Char’s mom, Cheryl Booth, has donated a queen size quilt that some lucky mom will win for Mother’s Day.  Even if you don’t win the prize it’s a great way to honor your mother or a mother you know who deserves some recognition. If you haven’t done so, please read about how to enter.   (Yes, I want to enter contest!)

More good news….

It’s Easter weekend and I’m hosting an egg hunt Saturday. Hopefully I will have lots of pictures for you next week. I saw these on another web site and may try making these. Don’t they look yummy?

I think I could actually make these without messing them up! They are just marshmallow Peeps on a stick dipped in chocolate.

Update on my cousin, Martha

My cousin Martha is feeling better and was able to have her chemo today. The last chemo did not make her as sick as it has before. Please keep her in your prayers! (Read more about Martha here)

Easter Weekend

I hope each of you have a blessed Easter weekend. And here is the really Good News….

 


 

 

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Friday Fun Links… the best of!

Posted by Char on August 6, 2010 Leave a Comment

Char here…

In just a FEW days, we’ll be celebrating one year of NanaHood.com. We’re celebrating with a BIG BIRTHDAY BASH, and you are invited!  (Pssst, you might want to click on that link and read the Birthday Bash post.  Then you just might want to leave a comment and twitter and fb… just sayin’).

As I was thinking about what to write about for today’s Fun Friday Links, it occurred to be that a “best of” post might be fun.  Teresa might not ever think to point to some of her best posts throughout the year, so I figured I could do it for her!  (And just a tiny hint to those of you paying attention: these links MIGHT just help a little with a game we’ll be playing next Wednesday).

So, here goes… some of the best of NanaHood.com, from year one:

Happy Almost One-Year Birthday, Teresa!  Love ya!

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Friday Fun Links… and the Birthday BASH is coming…

Posted by Char on July 30, 2010 1 Comment

I took the last couple of weeks off from Friday Fun links, but I’m back again today with a BIRTHDAY version.

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Teresa and I are gearing up for August 11th, when we’ll be celebrating NanaHood’s FIRST birthday!  And by celebrate, we mean GAMES, PRIZES, TRIVIA, GIVEAWAYS… you know, fun things for YOU!

Today’s links are all about BIRTHDAYS – and a couple of them may even be hints at prizes you might could win during the Birthday Bash!  I’m not telling you WHICH links are hints, so just enjoy the fun…and anticipation!  (P.S. The links today are all from etsy.com, since that’s my “home away from home”)

Special request - if you have a blog or website, would you please consider posting about the NanaHood Birthday Bash?  We’d love to have a BIG party with LOTS of folks, so if you’ll help us get the word out, we’d appreciate it.  Feel free to snag the banner below:

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More details about the Birthday Bash are coming soon!

Happy Friday, folks

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Any news?

Posted by teresak on July 23, 2010 4 Comments

Many years ago when I lived with my parents every Sunday afternoon at 4 o’clock the phone would ring and the voice at the other end of the line would ask, “Any news?”  The woman’s name was Jasper and she wrote a column for our hometown newspaper. The column was always full of things like where people ate dinner, a list of folks who were sick, and any exciting social events she might know of (lol). Once she wrote something about my mother’s hair that went something like this, “Snow flakes must have come early this year as Shirley Bell’s hair is now frosted. It is as lovely as a winter snow.”

Mom was not pleased.

Anyway, today I’m sharing a random news story about a nana from Pennsylvania and thought you might have some you want to share. So as Jasper once said, “Any news?”  If so be sure and send it in. We love hearing from visitors!

A Very Naughty Nana

A  Pennsylvania woman who denied leaving her 8-year-old granddaughter behind with stolen goods was ordered to stand trial on shoplifting charges. Elaine Weimer, 50, was ordered to stand trial on Wednesday on charges of retail theft, endangering the welfare of a child, and corruption of minors.

  • Workers at a Wal-Mart store in  testified they confronted Weimer about shoplifting on June 23. The girl returned $199 worth of items in reusable shopping bags she was carrying — but the employees said Weimer denied knowing the girl, got in her car and drove away.

The girl was not charged and told state police her grandmother told her “to get stuff for her grandmother and her grandmother made her hold the bags.”

Obviously not all nanas are nice!

Help Us Celebrate Our Birthday Next Month

August is almost here and there’s lots going on behind the scenes at NanaHood to get ready for our very first Birthday Bash!

NanaHood turns one next month!

NanaHood turns one next month!

It’s hard to believe but on August 11th NanaHood will have it’s first birthday (that’s the date of our first ever post) and boy do we have a celebration planned!

Char and I have been emailing back and forth daily and have come up with lots of fun ideas. We will have offer lots of great prizes for women of all ages. So be sure and stay tuned during the next few weeks as we continue to drop hints about our birthday party plans!

Everyone is invited and we do hope you’ll stop by, register for prizes and wish us Happy Birthday!

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Friday Fun Links – 4th of July Edition

Posted by Char on July 1, 2010 2 Comments

Hey, hey… it’s almost the 4th of July! And around NanaHood this weekend, we’re having one BIG BASH of a time! Teresa has slashed prices in the NanaHood shop by $4.00 (for everything in the shop!), and I have a bunch of fun red, white, and blue themed links for you today.

So, let’s get started with some patriotic fun:

And it wouldn’t be the 4th of July without REALLY yummy summer foods. Here are a few recipes you might like to try:

And now I’m hungry… and ready for the weekend to officially start!

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If you are a first time visitor to NanaHood we hope you will stick around awhile and check out the site. There’s lot to see and do and if you are looking to create your own blog, hop on over to www.thenanablogs.com and get started!  At NanaHood we think that being a grandparent is GRAND and we strive to keep the generations connected by sharing humor, advice, recipes, book and movie reviews and a whole lot of love.

We hope you like what you see and ask that you leave a comment to let us know how we are doing! Thanks and have a great 4th of July with your family and friends!

Teresa and Char
The NanaHood Gang

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Fun Friday Links – the Father’s Day edition

Posted by Char on June 18, 2010 Leave a Comment

So, I had a very similar moment to Teresa’s moment last week… around about Thursday.  I stopped mid-stream of whatever was happening at that moment and thought, “OH NO… it’s June already, and what if Father’s Day is on Sunday… I’m not prepared!”  I was relieved to find that I had another week.

And of course I used that week entirely to my advantage and am now totally prepared.  Or not.  We’ve had kind of a rough week around here (is that a theme or what?), and I’m still as yet, totally UNprepared.

I have a day and a half though, so I’m hopeful I can pull something together for my husband by Sunday morning.  (Did you know if you google “Last Minute Father’s Day gifts” you’ll get over a million and a half links?)

With that in mind, here are some Fun Friday Links to help me (and hopefully others of you who are just like me) honor my husband, who just happens to be an amazing dad!

Like I mentioned above, there are over 1.5 million responses if you do a search in google, so I’m going to leave you with the list above and go see what the kids and I can get done today!

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