I’m going to be away from my computer and email for awhile. If you need me, please email me after the 16th. Thank you. *Prayers would be appreciated for my extended family and their friends.*
UPDATE 5/18/2013: I’m home and mostly through my emails, but if you need a reply… please feel free to poke me again. I’m back to reading and reviewing, however we’re going on the third week of dealing with a mystery stomach virus with the girls and myself… so things are slow…
Hannah Gregory is good at many things, but that list doesn’t include following rules. So when she is forced to apply for a job as a telephone switchboard operator to support her two sisters, she knows it won’t be easy. “Hello Girls” must conduct themselves according to strict-and often bewildering-rules. No talking to the other girls. No chatting with callers. No blowing your nose without first raising your hand. And absolutely no consorting with gentlemen while in training.
Meanwhile, young lawyer Lincoln Cole finds himself in the unfortunate position of having to enforce the bank’s eviction of the three Gregory girls from their parents’ home. He tries to soften the blow by supporting them in small ways as they settle into another home. But fiery Hannah refuses his overtures and insists on paying back every cent of his charity.
When one of Hannah’s friends finds himself on the wrong side of a jail cell, Hannah is forced to look to Lincoln for help. Will it be her chance to return to her dreams of studying law? And could she be falling in love? Continue reading
This Bible will help you live up to your God-given potential. Insightful daily devotions written by the women at Proverbs 31 Ministries help you maintain life’s balance in spite of today’s hectic pace. Dive into the beauty and clarity of the NIV Bible text paired with daily devotions crafted by women just like you—women who want to live authentically and fully grounded in the Word of God.
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From Jenny Lee, a writer and producer of the Disney Channel hit TV show Shake It Up, comes the hilarious and poignant story of a sickly boy whose life is turned upside down when he gets a therapy dog…who can talk!
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Fancy Nancy: Nancy Clancy, Super Sleuth is NOW IN PAPERBACK!
Now available in paperback! This review was originally posted featuring the hardcover July 2012. In her chapter book debut, Nancy Clancy must find the culprit when a prized possession goes missing at school.
Fancy Nancy is growing up-she’s now appearing in her first ever chapter book!
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Okay, so I’m home now and back to my computer. We had to jump and go to Georgia as my father-in-law passed away after a rough battle with cancer. We’re all very sad and still a bit surprised. In an update to AppleBlossom and OrangeBlossom’s health, both were sick off and on for several more days and then after a 3 AM Emergency Room visit for AppleBlossom followed by a two-day stint for myself to be violently ill… we’re going with stomach virus. However with the root canals and sinus infections having me on and off antibiotics in the last two years as well as the fact that I do not have a gall bladder I was set up for failure and was about 10x worse than the girls. (But thank God! they were not that sick!) AppleBlossom was fixed in about five minutes after some Zofran, so we’re all on the mend.
However, I’m about 3,000 emails in debt. So if you need me and I haven’t responded. Please consider that I haven’t seen your message and feel free to poke me again. 
Memoria Press Junior Kindergarten {Review – Part VII – Crafts}
The Book of Crafts for Jr. K is brand new, it was not available when we first started. In the lesson plans I was queued with something like “Make a gingerbread craft” or “Madeline Craft”, but there was nothing more than that. Previously what I did was searched pinterest for great ideas and went from there. However, now with The Book of Crafts, no searching on my part is necessary as they are all laid out for me. I received a portion of this product free for the purpose of reviewing it. See full disclosure at close of post or … Continue reading
From New York Times bestseller and one of the world’s leading Bible teachers comes a children’s book including fun, quirky animals who teach young ones that God has given them each a special talent they can use to share the good news of Christ.
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Book Three in the Daughters of Fortune series.
When her country needs her, will she have the courage to surrender her glittering world and her one true love?
The golden age of Hollywood is in the business of creating stars. Rosie Worth, now starlet Roxy Price, has found everything she’s wanted in the glamour of the silver screen. With adoring fans and a studio-mogul husband, she’s finally silenced the voices—and grief—of the past. Her future shines bright…until the fated Black Friday when it all comes crashing down. When Roxy loses everything, she finds herself disgraced and penniless. Her only hope is to join forces with Belgian duke Rolfe Van Horne, a longtime film investor. But Rolfe is not who he seems, and he has other plans for Roxy and her movies—plans to support a growing unrest in Europe, plans that could break her heart and endanger her life. Continue reading
Memoria Press Junior Kindergarten {Review – Part VI – Music}
Now we’re in my category that I can boast on a bit as I spent practically a whole day organizing myself on this one to make the most of it. While I know that people would love to have a CD of all the songs chosen for the year in the curriculum plans for Jr. K because of copyright issues that is a hard task to accomplish. However, with the availability of streaming music online, especially through a new software I’m just now getting to know called Spotify it is possible to follow someone’s playlist. I practically spent all day … Continue reading
A transporting historical novel about a promising young inventor, his struggle with loss, and the attractive teacher who changes his life, all set against the razzle-dazzle of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair.
Gambling everything, including the family farm, Cullen McNamara travels to the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair with his most recent invention. But the noise in the Fair’s Machinery Palace makes it impossible to communicate with potential buyers. In an act of desperation, he hires Della Wentworth, a teacher of the deaf, to tutor him in the art of lip-reading.
The young teacher is reluctant to participate, and Cullen has trouble keeping his mind on his lessons while intently watching her lips. Like the newly invented Ferris Wheel, he is caught in a whirl between his girl back home, his dreams as an inventor, and his unexpected attraction to his new tutor. Can he keep his feet on the ground, or will he be carried away? Continue reading
Memoria Press Junior Kindergarten {Review – Part V – Prayer}
Through these two books, my young preschooler daughter is getting a heart of prayer and a foundation of devotion time fairly regularly. She loves to memorize and recite prayers and this is such a precious time and set of memories for me that was helped to form and be created from the organization and recommendations of the Memoria Press Junior Kindergarten Curriculum. Continue reading
And now to follow up OrangeBlossom being sick on Wednesday. AppleBlossom is sick, today. Hopefully it will pass just as fast. OrangeBlossom was sick but then after lots of sleep seemed to wake up just fine and was dandy yesterday. Emesis basin anyone? *shudder* Yay motherhood!
And as my Enginerd ran out the door this morning, calling, “Have fun!”
[Update: Her illness was completely identical and gone just as fast!]
