Monday Morning Magnificent

From here on out on Mondays I am going to start my Monday Morning Magnificent! We should be so grateful that we get to start another week off alive. I know a lot of people hate Mondays, but I really love them. Not every Monday is a great one, but for the most part, they are pretty fantastic and I enjoy them so much.

My Monday Morning happiness has been to just be happy with me and my results of the day. My co-workers laugh at my happy dances, my goofy jokes, my laughter at everything, but it is contagious and I love how everyone seems to embrace it.

I hope that you can see every Monday has a magnificent start to a wonderful work week, even if there are bumps in the road throughout the week, we can always remember we have and continue to have a great support team. I love being able to share my bubbliness and my just eagerness to have a happy Monday.

I am also for wowed for your continued support in my race to win Denver's A List Best Wedding Planner! If you have it in you, make my Monday amazingly magnificent by voting for Erika Swift Events!

I hope your Monday is amazing and full of magnificent-ness!! 

Change...I don't think I have any :)

In all our journeys of life, we have to accept the changes that come with it. My twins and I have dealt with many changes...some good, some bad, but all worth it. Changes help us create balance and structure and help us to accept something that isn't working for us.

So this post will be short because I am gearing up for a fantastic blog hop...I have never done one before and am beyond excited. From what information I have found out about a blog hop is that you add a link to your site (May Blog Roll) and then "hop" to each blog, follow, read, and comment on their posts (commenting optional I believe) and then you have built followers and can also now post to an actual audience.

This is so exciting for me and if you have never done one, and want to do one, check out Bloggy Moms May Blog Hop. This site is one of my favorites and I am so happy I found this site. +Tiffany Noth  has been an amazing inspiration to blog, to learn about blogging, to create a site for moms, and its brought/taught me so much! I hope to attend her blog-ference (conference) in Sept, I am working on that goal now.

As you also know, I wanted to make my blog more money and income savvy, I would like to bring in advertisers on my website, link my blog to my website, and just bring in some little extra income. I want my blog to be a mom two twins, single mom, and mommy inspirational site. I want to start posting more pictures of the things me and the twins have done and will be doing. I would like to post our science projects, our outings and adventures, and just what consists of our journey.

I would also like my site to be popular and to host giveaways, do reviews, and work with other blogging moms or giveaway sites to host huge prize giveaways. I know...I know...one thing at a time and for me that is getting more structured. I now have a blog post listing for myself that I will do on each day. For instance, on Fridays, it will be Fantastic Fridays, showing all the wonderful things that have happened on that Friday, and what made it fantastic for us. So watch out for these wonderful days :)

I guess this wasn't so short after all. I hope you all enjoy our blog and continue to follow us.

Thanks,
Erika S.

Scentsy Giveaway!

I started a business called Scentsy, some may have heard of it and others may have not. I love it to death! I wish I would get some more orders in to help with my goals, but I do love the product and the people I've found with this DS (direct sales) company has been truly amazing. I have a FB page with pictures of my business and what Scentsy is.

Scentsy is a fast growing DS company, with consultants in the UK, Canada, US, and now in Ireland. They are quickly growing and reaching new heights! I've decided to do a giveaway in honor of reaching 100 Fans! I would love to have you participate! The giveaway is for a $10.00 G/C and I'm not offering one...but two!!

Once my Facebook page hits 100 fans, I will use Random.org to choose a # and pick a winner!!! Here is how to enter!

Go to my Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/scentswitherika and like us! Then go to my blog, find my Scentsy blog entry (this one) and tell me why you love Scentsy and whats your favorite scent! If you've never heard of Scentsy, tell me what you would like to know!

I will choose a winner the day after we reach 100 fans!!!

What makes a friend?

I didnt have a fantastic life growing up and my childhood had way more shares of troubles than good times, however, I had my family.

In my teen years, I was awkward, a wallflower, dealing with my childhood, and wanting to be...loved and accepted.

As I turned into an adult, I acted out, making decisions I now look back on and regret, wish I had changed, made myself more clear to others, and stood up for myself. Ive had a rough adult life too lol...

Now as I look back and ponder on things and fully accept my life for what it is, I get this sense of joy, the sense of contentment in me. I have had my shares of ups and downs, like anyone does, and had my woes and happy times. What matters now, though, are the ones i continue to share my happy times with.

As I look around me though, there aren't many people I can say I want to share those times with. My kids are special and will always be the ones I share my happiness with first and foremost. I notice that most of my family is on Facebook and although we keep in touch, I doubt many of them know my struggle, my new fears, and my new happiness. Some family members dont even know my kids names.

Most of my "friends" cant return a phone or a basic text message without some reason why I shouldve made contact first (um, I have two two year olds, thanks) or they dont return it period. Most of my "friends" dont even know where Im at because once I got pregnant, the world changed. I was no longer the single, lets go out every weekend, party Erika...I was the chilled, dont say that around my baby Erika. Ive become a mom and who wants to hang around a mom with twins hanging on her legs (I do, actually!!!)

So with that realization, I looked closely at the people that have really been there for me, calling ME up and seeing if I was ok, texting me, helping me out...without strings attached. Ive always been the motivator in my friends life, the natural born encouraging one, the friend thats always willing to be there for you.

So I ask you, What makes a friend? Them being them. a friend is someone who is not only a friend in word but in deed as well. Thankfully, the handful of friends I do have, have been so awesome and so terrific, it makes a girl want to cry! Recently one has helped me out a lot, talking to me, keeping me company, and just being there for me (even after only knowing me for little less than a week). A friendship isnt based on who has done what and for how long, but the bond and the strength in between those two people! (thats a shout out to a special mama!!)

In that same note, if you dont have "family" remember who your true friends are and remember that family doesnt always have to be blood related...just there for you! Im glad that lately, with so much going on in my life, Ive had some amazing, awe inspiring, loving, giving , creative, wonderful, patient, kind, long suffering, fruitful, successful, friends...friends who love me for me and accept me for me.

So I say to you, look around and see how many real friends you have...cause I know now that I have a few. A very special few!!