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A couple reminders: please be sure to give your first and last name, as well as the branch you registered at when you post your book comments so that we can identify and contact you if your name is selected in the weekly and grand prize drawings. Also, drawing weeks run from Monday through Sunday online. If you finish a book 1am on Monday, just wait until the Monday post pops up on the blog to post your comment.
That should do it, have a great week everyone!
Book 1: Loving the Little Years-Motherhood in the Trenches By Rachel Jankovic
ReplyDeleteThis was a quick read and chalk full of sweet stories of motherhood with little ones! I laughed, I cried, and I learned some great ideas of reaching our little ones hearts (not just focusing on their behaviors, but their hearts) This is a busy season of motherhood, but this mom seems to know how to be organized in order to focus on the most important part of motherhood....being a mom (lol)....not just their cook and maid and so forth, but the lovingly coming alongside of them teaching them, encouraging them, being a great example to them, affirming them.....great stuff!
Book 2:You Are Captivating: Celebrating a Mother's Heart By Stasi Eldredge
Sometimes mothering can be a bit discouraging at times...as you can tell I needed a mommy pick me up with these two books, and this book piggy backed on the other and went a step further in affirming me as a mom and the special role we moms play in our children's lives and moving me past just the present hardships that mothering can have at times but helped to re-focus and give perspective on not making it so much about what we want as Mothers, but what God wants from us to be doing and saying and being not only as a mother, but in all of life. That the role of mothering is a lofty high calling and a privilege, and that God will help us every step of the way, if we let him :) Loved the idea that we are helping to prepare our little ones to one day be wonderful loving people and great husbands and wives too...but we're not doing it alone, and I wouldn't want to...with God all things are possible!
Courtland Library
Just finished reading 11/22/63 by Stephen King. Awesome book. I liked the back to the past and What would have happened with John F Kennedy hadn't been shot. great read. Take it to the beach.
ReplyDeleteThe Girl in the Steel Corset by Kady Cross
ReplyDeleteThe Girl in the Clockwork Collar by Kady Cross
A good Steampunk series. High in adventure and no sex.
Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google? by William Poundstone.
I don't think I am.
Visit Sunny Chernobyl by Andrew Blackwell
A good book for planning where NOT to go on vacation.