I am very excited to start this new venture of learning new things and ideas for my family to save money and enjoy our time together. I know if it going to be tough but this is the path that we feel I need to go in so that we as a family can do more exciting things together!

I am back!!!!!

I am back and I can not wait to start this blogging again, took some much needed time for family stuff and now I am ready!!!!!

Women of Faith Conference - Atlanta, ga

Oh my goodness, BookSneeze chose me to attend and blog about the women of faith conference in atlanta, ga. I am so excited, this is going to be an amazing opportunity for me. It looks like the line up of speakers and musical guests are great, the website gives you so much information of the speakers and they seem wonderful, this is going to be an event not to miss.

Lilly's Wedding Quilt - By Kelly Long

A wonderful story about a selfless woman named Lilly. The book is wonderful and the characters are great.  Lilly is Amish schoolteacher, not looking for romance but ends up meeting Jacob Wyse-a horse breeder who saves her from an accident. Lilly has been taking care of her ill mother and teaching the commmunity youth. I have really enjoyed reading this book a great deal. Throughout the book they speak of Amish traditions that take place such as an Amish wedding quilt and how the pieces of fabric for the quilt emerge into something beautiful. It makes you imagine what life is like in their culture. Please note that Thomas Nelson Publishing has provided me a complimentary copy of this book for my review.

A Billion Reasons Why

A wonderful book that i could not put down.  I have to say I was NOT disappointed and I had never read a book by  Kristin Billerbeck before. Katie McKenna is engaged to be married to a man she doesn't love. She knows that she is settling for him. Her true love is a "multimillionaire" named Luc DeForges which she has known a long time but with whom she has hurt in the past as well as he hurt her. Will she allow herself to realize and admit that she belongs to Luc or will she settle into the life she thinks she deserves? It allowed me to be able to picture in my mind where she was at all times. it is a wonderful book.

Shutterfly Christmas Card Designs

Shutterfly has some great  Christmas Card Designs this year and I can not wait to order mine. I think I klnow which one my favorite is. I've been looking and looking and kept changing my mind until I found the Elegant Modern Collage Christmas Card by Fontaine Maury. I love it because I can choose 4 different pictures which is awesome. I am so excited. The following links are very helpful.
http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/christmas-cards.
http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/holiday-story-cards
http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/christmas-invitations 

Shutterfly is having an amazing promotion. “Shutterfly is offering 20% off all holiday cards” and hyperlink to http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery

 

 

 

The Least Among You

This is a movie based on a true story about racism in the 60's. Richard Kelly, a young intelligent black man, who was arrested during the 1965 Watts riots in Los Angeles, California. He would be able to avoid prison if he attended an all-white seminary. Kelly finds friendship and counsel in the "gardener in the basement" as Kelly describes Samuel Benton. I am confused as to what kind of seminary he attended. The thing is I really wanted to like this movie.  The stories of integration and racial reconciliation have so many characters and layers that I cannot help but be moved by a number of them.  But I can’t follow a film that lacks a driving story line and some connective tissue between the scenes, it seemed very choppy and I wonder if it was edited too much.  This is an inspiring movie that is not sugar coated.