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Some Helpful Thanksgiving Links and Remembrance Day

Well I am clearing up my emails as I work on the blog, sewing and school… so what do I come across but my emails to myself about Thanksgiving! And Remembrance Day to boot! Well I figured I might as well share the helpful links here. If nothing else, the next time I search Thanksgiving or Remembrance Day here on the blog to find useful resources I will be in luck!

Kids National Geographic and their interpretation of the first Thanksgiving HERE
Social Studies for Kids and their thoughts on the Mayflower HERE
Reading With Kids turkey colour by letters HERE
Havefunteaching.com Harvest Festival explanation HERE
Kids Puzzles and Games Harvest Festival Puzzle Sheet HERE
Busy Teacher Thankful Tree Leaves writing template HERE
Teachers Pay Teachers Thanksgiving fun page HERE
Crewsnest Harvest Festival run down HERE

Remembrance Day!

Words of Remembrance Day cards through Activity Village HERE
Homeschooling.About.Com Veterans Day word search HERE
Parenting.Leehansen.com poppy colouring page HERE

A Halloween bonus!

Happy Home Fairy Pumpkin game HERE

A taste of fall to enjoy at the end. Minnesota has some amazing colour in the fall.

Yuletide Baby… a book review

Nov14

Well, I think I am finally on the downswing of my fluffy reading binge. Or just not grabbing books from the library (still randomly) that completely tickle my fancy. Yuletide Baby by Deb Kastner bypassed Thanksgiving right into Christmas.

I have a couple loves with this one – the name of the town – Serendipity, Texas; the name of the abandoned baby in the church – Noelle. Who wouldn’t want to live in a town named Serendipity and if you know anything about my baby name choices (Emanuel, Echo, Trinity), well Noelle fits right in on that one.

Now for what I had trouble with – this is another foster parent book. As mentioned previously a baby is abandoned in a church in the Christmas creche. There is a history of abuse with the female main character Heather and both she and the male lead Shawn (part time pastor full time rancher) hold onto guilt for situations they could not control.

There really is not much of a focus on the people in town around the two main characters, possibly because they are really both two wrapped up in their own emotional turmoil. You get a lot of back history in this story on both sides and most of it is tragic. This has caused a strengthening of faith with one and almost a fear of the church and God with the other.

The ending has a rather dramatic climax that includes Heather’s foster children (and myself a tiny bit confused as to where Noelle was during all of this). The ending is lovely and wraps everything up with a Christmas bow. This is a seasonal contemporary Christian romance with a bit of a gritty under belly. In reading the author’s note to the reader I realized there are multiple books set in the town of Serendipity so the potential is there for more faith journeys in small town Texas. I think I simply prefer my light reading a little less angst filled.

November’s Overflow Of Images

Mar4

It doesn’t matter if it is days or months… there are always those extra pictures I can’t help but share!!! I hope that they entertain!

She does have the most interesting fashion sense

Can you believe she can actually walk in this?

My main card making helper

Jeffrey is just too cute for one blog post’s worth of images!

The girls just LOVE him

Echo does love to act along with her shows

Thank you Aunty Esther! We love our Canadian mittens!!

Fairies DO exist in our house!

Gammie sent us more books for Christmas. This is our second read aloud and mail books. There is nothing more lovely than having someone read you a story. The kids listened to that one over and over again!