I am SO excited. SO SO SO SO SO excited.

In a little over a week my family and I are going on a vacation, and not just any vacation.  We are going on a Carnival Cruise!!!

My husband and I have always dreamed of going on a cruise and somehow, it just never happened.

I can’t even begin to tell y’all in words how excited we are about this.  Blogging has brought many fantastic opportunities my way and I’ve gotten to go on some great trips but, I’m the only one who ever gets to go.

Thanks to Carnival and the seriously out of this world opportunity to be a Carnival Mom Ambassador, my entire family and I are getting to go on a trip together!  Thank you Thank you Thank you!

Here’s the thing; we’ve never been on a cruise.  We have no clue what to bring, pack, expect etc…

So, here’s what I’m askin’ y’all.

If you’ve ever been on a cruise, I’d love to know your thoughts!! any tips or tricks? hints? insiders knowledge from a cruise veteran to a cruise virgin?

Okay.. GO!

In case you haven’t heard yet, the wonderful Tricia, from Once A Month Mom and I are collaborating on a project for October, which is National Breast Cancer Awareness month.

The past two years, I’ve hosted Blogging for Boobs, where people have donated items for giveaways, I donated all my ad revenue, hosted a donation site and button and donated my entire blog for a month of posts from people who’ve been affected by breast cancer: whether they have it, have had it, have a family member or friend with it, have lost someone to it….  it’s been a powerful experience for me.

Tricia and I want to start in October and then have this project continue to change lives and make a difference for the rest of the year and years to come.  We’d love to do this every single year and the only way that we can do that is with y’all’s help.

• Tricia and I have created a facebook page:  Saving Second Base Please “like” us and help spread the word!
• We’re on TWITTER!!! @Savng2ndBase (i know it’s missing an i but someone already HAS saving2ndbase and isn’t using it :-{ ) Follow us and spread the word!
• Post our button

  

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• Send us your story and recipe:  one that reminds you of/celebrates someone who has fought with, is living with, is kicking cancer’s ass, has lost the fight…. send a story, a recipe, a blurb with recipe, a memory with recipe, a tribute with recipe… and pictures.. a picture of the person.. a picture of the recipe (preferably both) but either works.   Please send this to:  Breastcancerebook@gmail.com  and we’ll send you the release to sign and love you forever and ever and ever
• We’re going to post at least one recipe and story every. single. day in October on both A Southern Fairytale and on Once A Month Mom and then we’ll compile all the stories and recipes into an e-book that can be purchased and EVERY SINGLE SOLITARY cent will be donated to the Susan G Komen Foundation.   (Tricia and I are not taking a single solitary cent for any of this)
• Tweet with #saving2ndbase

Let’s help kick cancer’s ass and save those ta ta’s!

And remember y’all… Save a Life, Grope Your Wife