…from me, to you!

I wish you all:
happiness,
love,
joy,
and peace
today and always, and especially into the new year!

Please also enjoy the video I made which includes a Christmas light show I took some (very limited!) time to go see in order to celebrate!
(If the video acts up and you still want to watch it – here’s the link !)
Thank you for following me along on my journey this past year – the ups and downs, the backwards and forwards, and for understanding when I drop off the face of the planet and your care and concern for when I do!

You are so appreciated. 🙏
Also, remember not to only enjoy your presents today, but the present as well, and the reasons for the season.
I know, that was corny! 😜 But what else do you expect from my (sometimes ridiculous) humor?

Take care, all. Be safe, and remember to be grateful for all the blessings you have, and if you don’t have them currently – be confident they are coming your way!
As always,

Ⓒ 2021 – 2024
*roll credits*
AI images: Kevin
Video: Yours truly (except for the Catwoman image at the end) 😉
I hope you have some time off to enjoy the holidays. I’m hoping to hop back into the blogging spirit soon enough as I have a few days off as of this morning here! 🎄☃️❄️🎁

I have definitely missed reading your posts Laura. Hope you’re doing well. Merry Christmas to you and your family 🖤🎄🌹
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Thank you so much for your beautiful and kind words my sweet friend! 🙏 I hope you’re doing well too! 😊 I’m looking forward to catching up with your posts. 🎄 Merry Christmas to you and yours as well! 🫶❄️⛄️✨
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You’re most welcome dear🌹
Hope you have a wonderful day 🫶
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The same to you! 🙏 😊 ✨ 🌺
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Merry Christmas, Laura! Thank you for the beautiful message and your video.
May grace abound in your day.!
Thank you for your always excellent shares and kindness. Peace.
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Merriest Christmas to you, Suzette! So glad you liked the video 🙏 I’m looking forward to catching up with beautiful your posts! 😊 I hope you’ve been well and I appreciate you always, much peace and happiness to you! 🕊️🎄✨❄️
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And same to you Laura. Take care and enjoy some downtime as you feel led. Helper professions like yours need that me-time too!
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Terrific light show and message. Happy Holidays, Laura.
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Happy Holidays to you, John! I hope you’ve been well! 🙏 Much appreciated 😊 thank you so much!
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Been terrific. Like your other fans have missed you.
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So kind of you to say! Looking forward to catching up here 😊 glad all has been well your way.
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Merry Christmas, m’lady. 😘🎅
Nice to see you out and about again 😍
I hope today is a peaceful and restful day for you 💛
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Thank you! 😘 and thank you for all the wonderful images 😆 I didn’t have to generate any! 😍 they are so beautiful and I didn’t want to not use them ❤️ hope you’ve had a great day and I hope in the new year it is blessed for both of us 🙏 🥰
And yes, as you know it was quite a restful day! 😆😴
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Restful and then some. 😄
That’s good though, because you needed it.
It was a decent day, but not without it’s pitfalls. Hopefully, it’s a minor pitfall that can be easily dealt with 🙏
Glad you liked the images, of course. I enjoy making them for you. 💗😘
And yes, here’s to a very fruitful 2025 😍
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Merry Christmas, Laura! Light, love, peace, and blessings to you and yours in this season and always 🙏🌟🌈💝🎅🎄
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Merry Christmas, Susana!! Thank you so much for your beautiful words 🙏 I wish the same for you! 😊 May you have peace and love and joy 🕊️ 🎄 💕 ✨
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Merry Christmas. May it be filled with blessings.
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Merry Christmas, Sarah! 😊 I hope you’ve been well! Looking forward to catching up with your posts soon!
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Thank you and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours
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Thank you so much, Thomas! Hope you’ve been well. Merry Christmas to you and the family! 🙏 😊
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Merry Christmas Laura! 🎅 🎄✨️🎁🌹
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Merry Christmas! 🎄🎁 ⛄️ ❄️ Hope you’ve been well 🙏 and thank you so much! 😊
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Merry Christmas!
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Merry Christmas to you! 😊 and thank you! 🙏
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Helllllooooooooo! It’s so good to see you. The video was lovely! I liked seeing all the light displays.
Merry Christmas, Laura. xo
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Merry Christmas, Kymber! I tried commenting on your post like 3 times and it kept giving me an error, but I don’t know if it’s me or WP 😆 I hope you and the family and kitties are well! ❤️ 🐈 🐈⬛ 🙏 I’m so glad you liked the video!
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Hi, Laura, I had some technical difficulties while I migrated my site back to wp.com. I hope all the stuff works now. lol
I hope you are well, too! Yes, the video was terrific!
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Merry Christmas
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Merry Christmas! 😊 Hope you’ve been well!
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We are great. I hope you are as well.
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Merry Christmas to you and yours, Laura🎄🌟🎁❤️
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Merry Christmas, Sia! ❤️ thank you so much for your kind words and I hope you’ve been well! 🎄✨⛄️❄️
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Merry Christmas, Laura Laura🫶🎄🕴
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Merry Christmas, Ted! 🎄❄️ Hope all has been well and work isn’t driving you too mad! 😜 Be safe and enjoy the holidays, looking forward to catching up to your story soon 🫶 ✨ ✍️
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Merry Christmas Laura! 🙂 Mike
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Merry Christmas, Mike! 🎄✨ Hope all has been well your way and thank you so much always for your positive energy and vibes 🙏 it means a lot. 😊 Blessings your way always! 🕊️⛄️❄️🎅
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Great video Laura!!! I hope you enjoyed the rest on this special day. Happy Christmas my friend.
Now getting you that beautiful bean brew is next on the list.
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Thank you Ernie 🙏 I indeed did get much rest, and I’m looking forward to that first amazing cup 😆 the smell, the aroma and the taste…just heavenly! 🤣 one day we’ll have to do a collab on our love for coffee! ☕️ hope you’ve been well, I can’t wait to catch up to more of your posts 🎄 ✨✌️ peace always to you! 🫶
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A collab sounds fun
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Merry Xmas Laura 🎄🌠 May the light of wisdom and eternal blessing always shine on you 🌟
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Merry Christmas, Chris! 🎄🫶I hope all has been well your way and thank you so kindly for your lovely words 🙏 it means a lot ✨ so many blessings your way! 😊
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Merry Christmas Laura and a very happy and healthy New Year.
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Merry Christmas to you, Michael! 😊 Hope you’ve been well and I wish you all the same, many blessings your way! ✨🌲❄️
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Thank you. Glad to see you. Missed you.
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Aww super kind of you! 😊 can’t wait to catch up with your posts as well!
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Merry Christmas Laura
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Merry Christmas my friend! 🙏 looking forward to reading your wise words and lovely posts soon 😊 and hope you’ve been well ✨🌲
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Thank you Laura. Looking forward to yours as well. I haven’t seen you posting in a while, and thought you may have been busy.
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Yes, a few chaotic weeks at work and all 😆 thank you!
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Happy Xmas Laura!! Wish you enjoy these festive days and have some break off work to rest and stay with all your love ones🫶🏼😃
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Happiest Christmas to you, Javi! ✨🎄🕊️ I hope you’ve been well and are enjoying some time off, too! 🙏 and thank you, many blessings to you in the new year and always! 🫶
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Thank you very much Laura!!😃 Enjoy!! All the best!!🫶🏼🔝
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Merry Christmas Laura 🎄🧑🎄💕💃
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Merry Christmas, Sara! Hope you’ve been well 🙏 missed your posts and looking forward to catching up soon 💕 😁 🎄
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Hi Laura! All good, thank you 💕. I too, look forward to your posts…😍🎄🧑🎄
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Merry Christmas Laura!
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Merry Christmas Dan! Hope you’ve been well 😊
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Thanks, Laura. Yes, I’ve been well, just a bit tired from my cleaning job. But happy to get two days off work for Christmas.
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I hear ya. Work can really do that to you! Enjoy your days off, I’m sure they are well deserved! 😊
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Many blessings to you, Laura!! Rest up and have a wonderful new year!! 🙏❤️
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Thank you so much, MM! I’ve missed seeing you around! ❤️ Hope all is well with you 🙏 and you’re getting some good rest too and many blessings into the new year! 😊
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Thank you, Laura. 💕 Perhaps I will start posting my stories again in 2025. {{{HUGS}}}
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Merry
Christmas my Dear Friend and God’s Blessings to you, today and always.
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Thank you so much, Willie! I hope you and Frances and the family have a blessed day today and always! Thank you for your always beautiful and uplifting words 🙏 🎄 😊
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Happy Holidays to you and yours 🎄🎁🎅 Hoping you’ve been able to enjoy some of the holiday with loved ones… and yes… we all understand falling off sometimes ❤
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Happy holidays Kay! I hope you’ve been feeling better ❤️ and thank you 🙏 😊 Here’s to hoping we can stick around when we’re able 😆🤞
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😂 We do what we can when we can! LOL! Hoping that all is well your way ❤
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That was beautiful, Laura, and great fun! Love your hat!! Merry, Merry Christmas! 🎄🌟 🎊
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Merry Christmas to you, Nancy! And a happy new year your way filled with many blessings! 😊✨🕊️❄️
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Thanks so much, Laura! I hope you had a very special Christmas and wish you a happy and healthy new year! 🎄🌟🎊💛
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By the way, the light show is amazing 👏 ❤️👍😊
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Thank you so much! 😊 I’m so glad you liked it 🙏 ✨ 🫶
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Such a soothing talk, Laura… Merry Christmas and happy boxing day🎁
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Thank you so much my friend! I hope you had a great one 😊
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Aww so lovely to see you Laura ❤️🤗🙏🎁🎄🥰
Happy Holidays beautiful xoxo
Big hugs 🧑🎄🎄🧑🎄
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Thank you lovely ❤️ 🤗 happiest holidays to you as well and here’s to a beautiful (and peaceful!) new year! 🥰
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Thank you Laura 😘🤗😘
I wish you the same 🙏
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It is good to see you back, Laura. Tiredness, yes, I finished writing clinical notes at 1 am, ugh.
Put your feet up, and escape into a dream.
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Omgggg 😱 get some rest please! 🙏 I came home from work and didn’t fall asleep until pretty late then slept on until the next day!
Thanks, Tash 😊 it means a lot! Hope you will be around too!
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I cannot stop yawning just now, even while typing this belated reply… Happy New Year, Laura.
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Happy New Year, Tash! Wishing you all the best! 😊 I’ll be joining in the yawning soon as I’ll be getting off work here this fine AM 😆 in another 30 mins or so…the bed is calling! Lol
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I will race you. My legs feel like they are on fire right now, almost as badly as my eyes.
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Awww get some sleep! I’m finally off and headed home for some shuteye
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[…] that Laura has been able to post again, I wanted to share one of our recent collaborative […]
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Groovy light show. I have been missing your posts! Happy Holidays and hope your New Year is as bright as the lights in this post!
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Awww thanks! 🙏 I’m so glad you liked it! 😊 hoping to catch up soon with everyone, I appreciate you and your fun comments always!
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Yaaaay Laura ❤ You’re home (lololol) !!!! Merry Christmas Loveee … Got my Christmas wish, now totally ready to hit the skies and soar the seas, my Bestie is back with me ~ 🙂 !!!!!
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Thank you lovely ❤️ that sounds like an ideal plan for sure! How’s the weather by you? Hope it is exactly how you wish it to be 🙏 Ready to fly! (Not on my broom stick) bahaha 🤣 🐉
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You look adorable in your furry hat, Laura. I enjoyed seeing you and hearing you speak! Merry Christmas, Sweetie. I hope you had a wonderful Christmas.
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Thank you so much Mary ❤️ I’m so glad you enjoyed the video and the hat 😆 Christmas was restful thankfully 🙏 I hope you are doing much better
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always brilliant!
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Thank you so kindly!! 🙏
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Merry Christmas, a day late 🎉
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Thank you so much! 😊 I hope you had a wonderful one, and here’s to a fantastic new year! ✨
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I’m so glad for this post, Laura. I wish you a Happy New Year. Blessings, rest, and coffee, my friend. ☕️☕️🫶🏼
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Thank you so much, Edward! 🙏 I’m so glad you liked the post! You know rest and coffee are vital to our survival! 😆 many blessings your way too, always! ☕️ ☕️ 🫶
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You’re very welcome, Laura, and I’m glad to see you back.
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I hope you had a good Christmas, as usual great words….
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Thank you so much, Simon! I hope you did too! Happy new year as well! 😊
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Thank you 🙂
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Thank you for the cheerful and brightly lit share and lovely to see your beautiful face! Bravo you! 👏 We appreciate you too, Laura and wish you abundant blessings in the new year. ✨💕
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Awww 🥰 thank you Michele! 🙏 that means a lot. Looking forward to all your wonderful creative ideas coming to fruition and what’s next in store for the new year! 💕 May it be blessed and prosperous with happiness all around! 😊
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You’re very welcome, Laura. Mutual admiration and appreciation. 🥰 Cheers to a prosperous, happy, and healthy 2025! 😊💃🏻💃🏼
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Yay!! I’ve been waiting for a post 😆 I didn’t wanna bug but I’m happy to see this. Hope next year will be a good one.
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Awww thank you! 🙏 I hope you’ve been well ✨ that means a lot to me! 😊 looking forward to catching up here. Wishing you all the best in the new year!
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Fantastic post Laura, delighted to see you back. I didn’t want to pester you but was def thinking of you and sending you good thoughts!🤗
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Thank you so much for your kindness, Sharon 🤗 and the good thoughts and energy 🙏 it does mean a lot! I thought about catching up with your posts too, and don’t worry, you never pester me! 😊 Hoping you have a joyous and wonderful new year! ✨
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I’m glad you are back. I have missed your writings. You are a great writer. I also like the video, there are some beautiful lights in it and your message was great. Merry Christmas, I hope you had a good day.
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Thank you so much! 😊 super kind of you to say! Looking forward to catching up. I’m so glad you liked the video 🙏 I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and many blessings in the new year!
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Thank you Laura. I hope you had a great Christmas and I hope you have blessings in the new year. Awesome video. I hope I see you sharing pics of the moon again, those are great 👍.
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Hopefully soon! 🌙 moon pics are my fave too! Best wishes to you always! And thank you 😊
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😊 🙏 ✨🎄
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I am glad that you have started posting again, Laura. I hope you had a wonderful Christmas. Wish you a very happy New year!
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Thank you so much, Shweta! It really means a lot! Hoping to catch up here. 🙏 hoping you are doing well and enjoying holidays and I wish you all the best in the new year! ❤️ 😊
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You are most welcome, Laura. I have been posting a lot recently. I hope that I will be able to find my way back soon. Thank you. I hope that you are enjoying the holidays too. Wishing you a very happy new year. ❤️ 😊🤗
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Happiest of new years to you, Shweta! ✨ I think we both deserve it and I hope you can get your writing mojo back soon! ❤️ 🤗
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Right back at you. I hope that I’ll be able to find my mojo soon. Until then, I’ll be unearthing my old posts and publishing them 🤓
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You’re most welcome, dear. I haven’t been posting a lot over the past few weeks. Hopefully I’ll be able to find my way back soon.
Thank you. Wishing you a very happy new year too!
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Thank you so much, Shweta ❤️ sorry for some reason this landed in spam! Have to get used to checking that again 😩 like why, WP?! This is someone who comments and is known to me, why you gotta put them in spam? 😆
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You’re most welcome, Laura. You don’t have to apologise. It’s all WP’s fault. Thank you for rescuing my comment.
The spam jail – the bane of my WP existence. You’re not the first blogger to tell me that my comments on their site have ended up in spam 😢
I have no idea why this keeps happening!
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Have you reached out to Akismet to let them know? Pooja told me about this not too long ago and it seemed to do the trick!
https://akismet.com/contact/
You select “I think Akismet is catching my comments by mistake”
See if it works for you! I hope it does. If you comment a lot on blogs like I do, it somehow inevitably ends up in spam 🙄🙄 I had to tell like 20 different people one day that all my comments went to their spam
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Oh I hadn’t thought of you. I didn’t know about that actually. Thank you so much for letting me know and for posting the link! Pooja is so great. She’s very helpful and her posts are so full of positivity.
I hope it works for me too. I’m guilty of commenting a lot. I know that’s why it keeps flagging my comments as spam.
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Oh I hadn’t thought of you. I didn’t know about that actually. Thank you so much for letting me know and for posting the link! Pooja is so great. She’s very helpful and her posts are so full of positivity.
I hope it works for me too. I’m guilty of commenting a lot. I know that’s why it keeps flagging my comments as spam. Much love 🤗❤️😊
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[…] aside from my Christmas message I posted, I’ve been MIA for a […]
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
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Thank you so much, Frances! I hope you and Willie had a wonderful Christmas and a very blessed new year! 😊
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Fantastic post 💯
I wish you a Merry Christmas and a good New Year 🎉🎁
Blessings 🌈
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Thank you! Same to you! Wonderful 2025 your way and I hope you had a very Merry Christmas! 🎄 ✨
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Indeed, I like your zebra hat and even more so I like your LED-band animals 👏😊🎄
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Thank you kindly 😊
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Delightful! I’ve taken a drive through one of these places before and it’s so charming, but your video editing made it beautiful. ❤
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Thank you ❤️ I’m so glad you liked it. It was nice to get out and see, always a hit or miss depending on how crowded!
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Oh true. Crowds make all the difference. I went to a big attraction a few years ago and wished they would have had a no kids night. lol
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🤣 😆 I hear that! And just soooo many cars omg lol
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Laura, I missed wishing you for Christmas. I hope you had a good Christmas.
Thankyou for the lights ✨️
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Thank you so much, Iba! I hope you are doing well and that you’re enjoying the holidays! 😊 so glad you liked the lights too ✨ happiest new year to you!
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Making the most of sleeping late before school reopens 😁.
Wishing you a blessed and new year filled with hope, joy, peace and loads of love 🥳💥✨️
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Great video😊 Have a great upcoming spring👍
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Same to you! 😊 thank you very much for your kindness ✨
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You have so beautiful voice that you could perform your art somewhere and you take very good photos and make great videos, so I think videos/audios of your art would be great, you also look pretty😊
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