welcome, welcome, welcome! you have stumbled upon (or purposely found) the Military Monday Blog Hop! while your gracious hosts are military wives and blogging connoisseurs, we invite all of you, military or not, to join in this great new blog hop to get your week started and your blog following grown! feel free to link up as many blogs as you have - but please don't leave links to your facebook, twitter or other blog hops (those links will be deleted!). you can also share this blog hop on your own blog, if you please.... we totally encourage it!
the guidelines are quite simple here!

• grab the Military Monday Blog Hop button and post it as a new blog post or somewhere on your blog so we can be sure you are at the right hop!

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• follow both hosts {just click the buttons below!} - we promise to follow back, just give us a few days to catch up with everyone!

this week’s spotlight blog is Tough Cookie Mommy….

1. Tell us about the name of your blog.... My blog documents my experiences as a working Mom of two boys, wife, and NYC public school Reading teacher to Middle School students.
2. Where are you from? I am a native New Yorker who was raised in Spain from the age of ten months to eight years old, upon which time my family returned to the States.
3. Why do you blog? I blog because I love to write and I love interacting with other writers.
4. Do you have any blogging goals for this year? My blogging goals for this year are get my blog professionally designed and incorporate more reviews and giveaways along with my usual posts.

follow as many, or as few, of the linked blogs as you like - but remember, the more you follow, the more followers you will get in return! be sure to leave a comment that you stopped by from the Military Monday Blog Hop and leave your blog address!!

thanks for joining us, and we hope you make some great new blog friends today! now, let's get hoppin'!