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Just wanted to remind everyone. I'm giving away.... You may leave a comment here to enter the drawing.
Go to the tour post hereand read about the book then come back or post at the tour post site and tell me what intrigues you most about this book. Make sure you leave a way for me to contact you. I will choose someone to win a copy of this book from those that leave a way for me to contact them. This contest will run through Sept. 14th. I will draw a winner on Sept. 15th. If you'd like to read the first chapter of the first book A Passion Most Pure in this series you may do so here. Also read my review on the first book. I'm still working on reading Passion Redeemed so I don't have a review for it yet. This is a very good series you won't be disappointed.
Lori who blogs @ My Wooden Spoon posted her version of an ice cream float. No she doesn't use coke or root beer. She uses Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper. Oh, it does look so yummy! I may have to try it out. Just thought I'd plant a seed in your mind as she planted one in mine. Hey, you can thank me later. Head over to her site she has other yummy recipes posted too.
Ingredients:
1 cup quick oatmeal, uncooked
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butterscotch mini chips (we used regular chips)
1 cup chopped nuts
2 bananas
1 egg
1/4 cup milk
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Directions:
Heat oven to 400 degrees F. Grease muffin tins.
In a food processor, puree oatmeal and sugar until fine; place in mixing bowl with remaining dry ingredients. Stir in butterscotch chips and nuts.
Puree peeled bananas. Stir together pureed bananas and remaining ingredients. Add to dry mix, stirring with wooden spoon just to blend. Fill prepared muffin tins 2/3 full.
Bake for 13 to 15 minutes, until the tops spring back when lightly touched.
Jocelyn is giving away a copy of Sir Kendrick on her blog. She blogs @ A Pondering Heart.
Head over to her site. I have heard a lot of good about these books, but haven't been able to get my hands on any of them yet. I do hope I win so I can add it to my TBR pile.
She is giving away a book a day during the month of September.
Head over there to her blog and check it out. Here's how it is going to work:
1) Take my logo above and link it back to this post on YOUR blog, then leave me a comment with the post link in it (no link, no entry). THAT ALONE enters you for a $30.00 gift certificate TO ANY BOOKSTORE OF YOUR CHOICE to be awarded on September 30, 2008 to those who promote this giveaway! (LIMITED TO US ONLY--MAYBE CANADA!)
2) Stop by every day for a NEW BOOK GIVEAWAY. Drawings will be held every day--one book=one winner EVERY DAY. YOU MUST LEAVE ME CONTACT INFORMATION TO BE ENTERED (no contact info, no entry). LIMITED TO US AND CANADA ONLY (sorry, but can't afford the international postage:-(...really, really sorry)
3) On September 30, I will finish the giveaway with AT LEAST one finally HUGE book giveaway...BUT, if my blog hits over 30,000 by then, I will ADD ONE BOOK PER 1,000 HITS....SO THE SKY'S THE LIMIT ON THAT BABY!!!
4) Final drawing will be held October 1st for that GRAND GIVEAWAY.
5) Last, but not least, you may only win ONE DRAWING PER WEEK to keep things fair. So, enter all you want to win...just know that you can only win once a week.
This looks like a really neat cookbook. MY Wooden Spoon is giving away 2 copies. Not one but two. head over to her site and check it out. Oh, I love cookbooks and this one looks like a fun one.
Julie Lessman is a debut author who has already garnered writing acclaim, including ten Romance Writers of America awards. She is a commercial writer for Maritz Travel, a published poet and a Golden Heart Finalist. Julie has a heart to write “Mainstream Inspirational,” reaching the 21st-century woman with compelling love stories laced with God’s precepts. She resides in Missouri with her husband and their golden retriever, and has two grown children and a daughter-in-law. A Passion Most Pure was her first novel.
ABOUT THE BOOK
No man can resist her charms. Or so she thought. Charity O'Connor is a woman who gets what she wants. Her stunning beauty and flirtatious ways have always succeeded with men. Until Mitch Dennehy, that is.
Brilliant and dangerously handsome, Mitch is a no-nonsense newspaperman who wants nothing to do with her. Charity burned him once, destroying his engagement to the only woman he ever truly loved. He won't play with matches again. But Charity has a plan to turn up the heat, hoping to ignite the heart of the man she loves. And she always gets what she wants--one way or another.
Or does she? Will her best-laid schemes win his love? Or will her seductive ways drive him away forever? Book 2 in the Daughters of Boston series, A Passion Redeemed will captivate your heart and stir your soul with a story of faith and redemption rising from the ashes of temptation, desire, and shame.
Praise for the first book in the series:
"Full of romance, humor, rivalry, and betrayal, A Passion Most Pure will captivate readers from the first page." --Historical Novels Review "Superb! Incredible!
"I loved Julie Lessman's A Passion Most Pure from the second I picked it up until the very last moment I stopped reading." --Armchair Interviews
"I devoured this book and loved every single page. . . . This is a thick, juicy read, and one I would pick up again in a heartbeat." --christianreviewofbooks.com
What to win a copy of this book? Leave me a comment as to what intrigues you most about this book. Make sure you leave a way for me to contact you. I will choose someone to win a copy of this book from those that leave a way for me to contact them. This contest will run through Sept. 14th. I will draw a winner on Sept. 15th.
ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN
All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sand pile at school.
These are the things I learned:
Share everything.
Play fair.
Don't hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess.
Don't take things that aren't yours.
Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat.
Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Take a nap every afternoon.
When you go out in the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: the roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.
And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK.
Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.
Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.
And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out in the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.
[Source: "ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN" by Robert Fulghum.]
Lori lives in the beautiful Ozarks with her husband Lance. Lance and Lori have three sons, two daughter-in-laws, and five wonderful grandchildren. They are very involved in their church, and active in supporting mission work in Mali, West Africa.
Lori began her writing career in 1982, writing for the secular book market. In 1995 after many years of writing, Lori sensed that God was calling her to use her gift of writing to honor Him. It was at that time that Lori began writing for the Christian book market. To date, she has more than 95 books published including Now And Always
and Bluebonnet Belle.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Texas, 1865 Willow Madison and her friends, Copper and Audrey taught school in neighboring Texas communities until the Yankees rode into the area and burned them out. In the midst of fear and chaos, survivors banded together to fight for what remained of their homes. Then word reached the people that the terrible war was over.
Now penniless but still hopeful, Willow vows she will take care of her friends, Copper and Audrey, and her ailing uncle, in Thunder Ridge, Texas, even if it means having to marry wealthy Silas Sterling, a man thirty years her senior. But standing in her way is handsome sawmill owner Tucker Gray, with his enticing eyes and infuriating headstrong manner—the man Willow cannot get out of her head . . . or her heart. Even though her friends beg her not to give up her dream of happiness, Willow is determined to do the right thing for those who are dearest to her. But which path does God want Willow to take: a life of duty and commitment . . . or a life of everlasting love?
If you would like to read the first chapter of Twice Loved, go HERE
I'm finally getting around to the long awaited pictures. I know you all are just dieing to see the final results. I've had many personal messages asking about our project. Here you go. Before, After and During. Enjoy!
Front View:
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Not real good because it is shaded but best I have. Sorry.
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Back Deck Before...
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Back View of house. Before...
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Past issues of our construction all in one post. However, the first post is the last one listed. I should have turned them around. You win some and you lose some. Guess I lost on this one. Enjoy!
I have done an author interview for the following book
Here is a short synopsis of the book:
Living with others in Mind: Beyond Me is an invitation to pursue true discipleship. Using sometimes humorous but always vulnerable and meaningful examples, Beyond Me ties together current, historical, and biblically documented insights and teachings to encourage you to aspire to the higher calling of true discipleship. Beyond Me is appropriate for individual or small-group settings.
OPPS!!! Maybe if we cut it again it'll come out alright.
Today I thought I'd share with you some pictures of the front steps going back in and side deck. I thought I had more pictures of construction but I can't locate them right now so these that I share will have to do for the time and probably for eternity.
For the month of June if you exited or entered our house by way of the front door you took a giant leap of faith. Actually, you were taking your life in your own hands to put it mildly.
Then we graduated to walking the plank for about 2 weeks. No, the first picture wasn't an opps in cutting, but I just had to post it that way. The board was put across there so we could get out a little easier (I think). You just had to learn how to keep your balance and jump from plank to plank to get in and out the front door for a time.
However, hubby did cut a board too small but not this one. Opps I wasn't suppose to tell you.
deck going in. Thank God for friends that came when they could to give a hand.
Finished product. Like I said, I thought I had more of the construction part but they aren't on my computer so we'll just use what we can.
You may click on this link Past consturction posts and follow the progress with past links. I just don't have time to post all links here right now. Sorry.
I'm still going to post before and after pictures but have to get them downloaded to photo bucket. I'm getting closer they are downloaded on my computer at least.
I was just looking at the calendar and it hit me that today was a marked day in our family. It was 35 years ago today that my brother went home to be with the Lord at age 13. Oh, the fond memories. He'll always hold a place in our hearts, but we have that hope that one day we'll see him again. I can't wait! Just had to share because I was thinking about him. Heaven is sounding sweeter all the time.
Now I need to get some much needed work done because in about 2 hours we have a picnic to go to. Oh, what fun!! I love picnics.
I will have to say yesterday I (or maybe I should say the other driver) tried my guardian angel little more than I was comfortable with. Boy was I glad I had God watching over me. I know that car went through my car. Only thing that kept that lady from hitting us had to have been the hand of God. I heard the car crunch and so did my oldest daughter. After we got to Wal-Mart she said, "Mom, I never knew what it was like to be in a wreck til I was in the wreck with dad last December." "Mom, I heard the metal crunch and I don't like that sound." I replied to her, "So did I honey, so did I." Only the Good Shepard was watching over us is all I can say. In all my 25+ years of driving that ws the first I'd ever been so close-me driving- to being in a wreck and I didn't relish the thought. Today, I was very jumpy while driving, but I knew I had to overcome it. I'll try not to test my angels so in the future and Lord willing the other drivers will do the same.
We all must have a lighter side to us and I'm hoping that in my blogs to share crafts, game ideas, recipes, funny happenings etc. I have another blog with my quiet spiritaul thoughts as well.
You give your love and friendship unconditionally. You enjoy long, thoughtful conversations rich in philosophy and spirituality. You are very loyal and intuitive.
Hey, you can thank me later. 
Head over to her site she has other yummy recipes posted too. 
I should have turned them around. You win some and you lose some. Guess I lost on this one. Enjoy! 
