I’m linking up with Create With Joy again this weekend for the Friendship Friday blog hop. It turns out I’m the Featured Friend - what an honor, considering I just started this blog about a month or so ago! Thank you!
The question of the week, for this week, is:
Imagine that you were given the power to make one wish.
You could wish for anything (except more wishes!)
What would it be?
That’s quite a question and I’m looking forward to reading everyone’s ideas. But for now, I have to figure out my own answer. ;-)
There are so many “deserving” answers - a perfect world, cure for illnesses and special needs, world peace, safety and security. Then there are so many deserving “selfish” answers - travel to all the continents, see the natural wonders of the world, have all that we want.
But the one that keeps coming to mind right now relates to education. I wish that every child could attend school safely - the school of their choice. In the city that I live closest to, there are stories of parents who want to take their kids out of public schools and put them in charter schools. There is literally a lottery to attend the charter schools. Sometimes, families have siblings that go to separate schools because one gets into the charter school and another does not.
But I don’t just wish that kids could attend school safely. Along with that, I wish they could attend EXCELLENT schools safely. Where teachers WANT to teach. Where there is no bullying BY the teachers. Where education is valued. Where teachers can convey the importance of education to their students.
But along with going to an excellent school *safely*, it needs to be a school that teaches music and art, along with science and technology. Schools need to engage all aspects of the brain, and have so many more hands-on options. School needs to be exciting, challenging, motivational, along with being educational.
Education is vitally important and my wish - when it boils down to it - is that we value education more than we do. All aspects of education. Imagine how great life could be for future generations if we placed more value on education.
Stop by at Create With Joy and read what others are writing about their one wish!
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Becky Reply:
April 27th, 2012 at 12:11 pm
Hi Kim! Thanks for the follow! I’ll be stopping by a little later today - Real Life has lined up some things I need to do today.
Thanks for stopping by - see you at your blog soon!
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Dear Becky,
What an awesome wish! I know you’re not on Twitter but I am going to tweet this out because it is so deserving of a share!
Did you know that only Blogger users now have access to GFC? That’s why so many of us now have so many subscription options on our blog. Google Plus, Linky Followers and an RSS Feed are a few options you may want to consider…
Have a fabulous week and again, thanks for participating!
Ramona
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Becky Reply:
April 27th, 2012 at 2:17 am
Ramona, I SO appreciate all your suggestions!
Thank you, thank you!! I am actually on Twitter, just haven’t got that listed here yet. @beckyhallberg I’m adding pieces to the blog as I get time. 
I’ll look up the things you recommend and hopefully you’ll see them up & running by the end of next week. Thank you so much for the suggestions!
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I wish I’d known, I would have included your Twitter handle in the tweet! Please follow me at @CreateWithJoy1 and I will follow you back (if we aren’t already doing so) - you can pull the tweet off of my timeline and retweet it to your followers!
If you’re interested in Pinterest, let me know and I can send you an invite. My email is on my blog or if you leave a comment I can pick up your e-mail from there and send one out the next time I log on!
I know what you mean about time - don’t stress, Rome wasn’t built in a day and neither was a blog - I STILL have basic things I am trying to catch up on since my move to WordPress last year but one can only do so much… so glad I could help!
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Becky Reply:
April 27th, 2012 at 12:12 pm
I am SO grateful for all your suggestions - hopefully the Linky Followers is working correctly. It seems to be since there were 4 followers last night & 6 this morning.
Happy Friendship Friday, Ramona!
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Congrats on being featured. visiting from friendship friday. new blog gfc follower.
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Becky Reply:
April 27th, 2012 at 12:12 pm
Thanks so much for stopping by! I’m off to run a few errands but I’ll be around to the blogs a little later today after I get home. I appreciate the follow & can’t wait to read the other posts over at Friendship Friday!
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congratulations on your one month anniversary! I’m a mom as well so always interested in what other moms have to say.
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Becky Reply:
April 29th, 2012 at 7:14 pm
Thanks, Sandra - I appreciate that! It’s great to hear from other moms about what their lives are like!
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