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Thursday, December 16, 2010

A Time to Dance: Book Sneeze Review

I recently received A Time to Dance by Karen Kingsbury to review. It's a Christian romance novel about a long-time married couple on their way to divorce. Right when they're about to announce their decision to their kids, their oldest daughter announces her engagement. Not wanting to diminish her happiness, they decide put their announcement on hold until after her wedding. The story tells of how God was working in their life, trying to repair their relationship, despite their best efforts to ignore Him.

I have to say that I LOVED this book. I've never read anything by Karen Kingsbury before this but I'm now anxious to read more.

The characters really drew you in. I felt like I knew this family and I was very emotionally invested in their lives. I found myself tearing up a few times. Not only was the book very entertaining, it was a good reminder of just how easy it is to ignore the still, small voice of our heavenly Father, and the consequences of doing so.

I was excited to learn that this book was the first in a series about this couple. I'm looking forward to following their journey.

Embrace the Camera

So my friend ~~ordered me~~ encouraged me to try out this link-up she ran across. It's called Embrace the Camera. The short of it is that moms take tons of pictures of everyone else but are rarely in front of the camera. Another blogger mom noticed that she didn't have a lot of pictures of her with her mom and didn't want that to be the case with her and her children. So she started a link-up to encourage other moms to take a picture of themselves involved in their kids lives once a week. And then you link up.

It's a great idea in theory. Who doesn't want their kids to have pictures of them to remember the good times by? Of course that involves taking pictures of yourself that others can see. I've packed on some extra pounds lately, so that doesn't thrill me. LOL So this project will serve 2 purposes for me: To include myself in our family memories and to get on the elliptical machine when I don't feel like it. Bonus!

Since I happen to have some recent pictures of me and my kidlets, I figured I might as well start today. So here are a few shots from our recent trip to NYC. I want to live near Central Park now. I need more money. =o)

Times Square Toys R Us

Liberty Island

Rockefeller Square

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Wednesday, December 15, 2010

December Daily 8, 9,10, 11, 12,13,14

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Tot School in NYC

Kayleigh is 34 months old

We haven't been doing much in the way of Tot School lately but we've been doing a lot in the way of life school.

First we spent a long weekend in NYC.

Here's Kayleigh's favorite things there.

Riding the Bus into the City

The Natural History Museum

Sabrett's Vendor Dogs

Central Park

FAO Schwarz

Pizza

Top of the Rock

American Girl Store

The Rockefeller Tree

Statue of Liberty

Empire State Building

M&M World

Toys R Us in Times Square

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Saturday, December 11, 2010

Weeklly Wrap-Up

I've been MIA from the wrap-up for a couple of weeks. We've been MIA from our normal lives. LOL

Last weekend we went to NYC and this weekend we're at my dads. Between the two trips we've done about 2 days of school. So this week I decided that I'd show the highlights of our trip to NYC. It was the first time for all of us and we had a great time.

Our first stop was The American Museum of Natural History. Naturally, Mackenzie was trying to find the things that were in the movie. That was a little tough because the museum is HUGE and there was massive amounts of unruly school groups.

Then we traipsed through Centeral Park in a quest to find The Plaza and FAO Schwarz. Central Park was my favorite place in the city. I now want to live by. It's the awesomest backyard ever with none of the maintenance. LOL It was exciting to see things that we've seen in movies or read about in books. We imagined all of Peter Hatchers favorite spots from Tales of a 4th Grade nothing.

I have tons more pictures but I'm at my dad's and his internet service is s-l-o-w, so I'm giving up. If you look back at some of my recent posts you can see some of the highlights in scrapbook form. We visited Rockefeller Center, Times Square, the giant Toys R Us, American Girl, M&M world, Ground Zero, the Statue of Liberty, and the Empire State Building.

Mackenzie had her last piano lesson of 2010 yesterday and they did a little mini-recital. Here she is playing We wish you a Merry Christmas. Her teacher just raves about her and would like to see her in private lessons so she can work ahead even more.