I just received an early Easter Basket !!  My friend Vicki, from Reading At The Beach (readingatthebeach.com) sent me the sweetest basket, as sweet as a Hershey’s Kiss !!!! 

 

  And the best part is that Hershey has partnered with the Children’s Miracle Network (http://www.childrensmiraclenetwork.org)%20for/ over 20 years. CMN is a non-profit alliance of children’s hospitals dedicated to providing state-of-the-art care, life-saving research and preventative education across North America. This Easter season, Hershey is celebrating it’s new Easter products sold exclusively at Walmart and their legacy of making a difference and Hershey’s will donate up to a total of $5,000 to the Children’s Miracle Network together with bloggers.
  Please join in and help make this a child’s sweetest Easter ever !!!  Its easy to participate…
Participate to Hershey’s Better Basket Blog Hop of giving away virtual Easter Baskets by creating a blog post with specific rules described here.

*Hershey Company will donate $10 per each blog post to CMN, up to total of $5,000.
*One blog post per URL counts towards the donation, but you can give as many virtual Easter baskets as you want.
*The Hershey’s Better Basket Blog Hop will officially begin at 12 AM EST on March 18th and end at 12 PM EST on April 4th, 2010. Blog posts submitted to us before or after that time period will not be counted for.
*The blog post link has to be submitted to us for the donation to be counted.
*In addition copy and paste the following text in your blog post:

 HERSHEY’S BETTER BASKET BLOG HOP RULES
*Copy and paste these rules to your blog post.
*Create a blog post giving a virtual Easter Basket to another blogger – you can give as many Virtual Baskets as you want.
*Link back to person who gave you an Easter Basket.
*Let each person you are giving a Virtual Easter Basket know you have given them a Basket.
*Leave your link at BetterBasket.info/BlogHop comment section. You can also find the official rules of this #betterbasket blog hop, and more information about Better Basket with Hershey’s there.
*Hershey’s is donating $10 per each blog participating to the Better Basket Blog Hop to Children’s Miracle Network (up to total of $5,000 by blog posts written by April 4th, 2010).
*Please note that only one blog post by each blog url will count towards the donation.
 
I am passing this basket on to:
   Xmas Dolly
   Bermudaonion
   A Cup of Tea and a Cozy For Me
   Caiafa Craziness
   Dollycas’s Thoughts
   Libby’s Library News
   My 5 Monkeys
I am willing to share all the goodies in my basket, so if you would like to participate, please help yourself to my basket !!!
  

  I just received an early Easter Basket !!  My friend Vicki, from Reading At The Beach (readingatthebeach.com) sent me the sweetest basket, as sweet as a Hershey’s Kiss !!!! 

 

  And the best part is that Hershey has partnered with the Children’s Miracle Network (http://www.childrensmiraclenetwork.org)%20for/ over 20 years. CMN is a non-profit alliance of children’s hospitals dedicated to providing state-of-the-art care, life-saving research and preventative education across North America. This Easter season, Hershey is celebrating it’s new Easter products sold exclusively at Walmart and their legacy of making a difference and Hershey’s will donate up to a total of $5,000 to the Children’s Miracle Network together with bloggers.
  Please join in and help make this a child’s sweetest Easter ever !!!  Its easy to participate…
Participate to Hershey’s Better Basket Blog Hop of giving away virtual Easter Baskets by creating a blog post with specific rules described here.

*Hershey Company will donate $10 per each blog post to CMN, up to total of $5,000.
*One blog post per URL counts towards the donation, but you can give as many virtual Easter baskets as you want.
*The Hershey’s Better Basket Blog Hop will officially begin at 12 AM EST on March 18th and end at 12 PM EST on April 4th, 2010. Blog posts submitted to us before or after that time period will not be counted for.
*The blog post link has to be submitted to us for the donation to be counted.
*In addition copy and paste the following text in your blog post:

 HERSHEY’S BETTER BASKET BLOG HOP RULES
*Copy and paste these rules to your blog post.
*Create a blog post giving a virtual Easter Basket to another blogger – you can give as many Virtual Baskets as you want.
*Link back to person who gave you an Easter Basket.
*Let each person you are giving a Virtual Easter Basket know you have given them a Basket.
*Leave your link at BetterBasket.info/BlogHop comment section. You can also find the official rules of this #betterbasket blog hop, and more information about Better Basket with Hershey’s there.
*Hershey’s is donating $10 per each blog participating to the Better Basket Blog Hop to Children’s Miracle Network (up to total of $5,000 by blog posts written by April 4th, 2010).
*Please note that only one blog post by each blog url will count towards the donation.
 
I am passing this basket on to:
   Xmas Dolly
   Bermudaonion
   A Cup of Tea and a Cozy For Me
   Caiafa Craziness
   Dollycas’s Thoughts
   Libby’s Library News
   My 5 Monkeys
I am willing to share all the goodies in my basket, so if you would like to participate, please help yourself to my basket !!!
  

OMG !!!!!!  I am soooooo excited.  A few months ago I never thought about having followers.  I created this blog as a “personal journal” for books I had read.  But with the help, kindness and encouragement of several kind book bloggers, I took the chance of going “public.”  And as they say “The Rest Is History”

Thank you Morgan from Smitten With Books (http://www.smittenwithbooks.blogspot.com/) for stopping by, visiting and becoming my 100th follower.  And thank you to all the other 99 followers.

I had been thinking that if I did make it to 100 followers, I would personally sponsor a giveaway.  But with all my personal issues and appointments, I am afraid I would not have the time needed to do one, especially since it would be a 1st for me.  So this is what I am thinking…….a celebration in the middle of April for a “post 100th follower and a “return to blogging” after my surgery.  Again THANK YOU ALL !!!!!!!!

Jeannie over at Pine Cottage Books (http://pinecottagebooks.blogspot.com/) has so kindly presented me with this award.  I accept it with great humility.  I know that some bloggers don’t do awards and that is ok, but when another blogger presents me with one, I get a warm and fuzzy feeling.  It also makes me feel like when the new kid at school gets picked first to be on a team.  Maybe its because I am still a semi newbie at blogging!  Or maybe its because I lurked around the corners for a few months when I first found a book blog and was in awe of it!  Or maybe its because I found out that book bloggers are the best!  Or maybe it looked like so much fun to be part of this community!  NO!!   Its because of ALL those maybes!!!!  So Jeannie, thank you again.  With accepting this award, I in turn have to pass it on to 15 bloggers, head to their site to let them know that this award now belongs to them.  The majority are new blogs I have just found via The Book Blog Hop.  In no particular order this award goes to ………………..