Don’t forget the Country Crock and Green Mountain coffee giveaways! And the winner of the book Maman’s Homesick Pie is commenter #23 Chavonne.  Email me your address, Chavonne, and I will get the book headed your direction! ~~~~ This week’s giveaways are all about homeschooling!  Where do you buy your homeschooling supplies?  If I...
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He said He’ll finish the work He started in you Your needs He will supply He’ll never leave you nor forsake you and that’s a promise It’s a guarantee It’s a beautiful thing He delights to keep His word
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The week of getting back to school is almost always a painful one.  Plowing into the grind of math and history and reading and advising and checking and repeating and prodding and encouraging.  We’re still awash in summer, all of us, with tomatoes and squash all over the counters, and apples and grapes ripening...
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(The winner of the French Women Don’t Get Fat Cookbook is commenter #31 Megan!  Congrats!) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~I have yet another cookbook for you!  Maman’s Homesick Pie: A Persian Heart in an American Kitchen is sooooo my cup of tea: part memoir and part ethnic cookbook.  The author grew up in Tehran.  (Confession:  I just googled...
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Ever heard of Fair Trade coffee?  These days a lot of people have, but have you ever thought about what it really means? These days the USA imports food from many countries in the world, including countries that are incredibly poverty-stricken. This sounds like a good thing, right?  After all, we’re sending dollars into...
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The winner of ‘We Sure Can’ is commenter #68 Nancy.  Congrats, Nancy! ~~~~ The second cookbook giveaway this week is an intriguing-looking book called the The French Women Don’t Get Fat Cookbook  This book is an interesting mix of healthy-living commentary and recipes loosely organized by different meals of the day.  Most of the...
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I worked hard last week to organize the new bookshelves that we bought at the Border’s liquidation. We originally bought three shelves for $100 each, but when we got there and discovered one last shelf marked down to $33, we happily snatched it up too. We thought that the shelves would work well, but...
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Anybody who’s been here for awhile knows that I do a lot of canning– easily in the range of 300 jars a year.  So I was extremely excited to get my hands on a copy of this book, and I’m thrilled to have one to offer as a giveaway as well.  We Sure Can...
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We were made to be courageous And we’re taking back the fight We were made to be courageous And it starts with us tonight The only way we’ll ever stand Is on our knees with lifted hands Make us courageous Lord, make us courageous
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The winner of September’s first giveaway is Donna Dorsey, commenter #50. If you haven’t gone to read all the replies, you might enjoy it. So many lovely moments were shared. (BTW, an honorable mention goes to comment #6!) But here is the winning story: This past week we lost power due to Hurricane Irene....
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