New Book To Review!! (Book introduction) Almost There By Laurel Graver

First off I would like to apologize for not doing many posts over the last few weeks, it was finals week at school, and then the kid's last days, so needless to say things have been crazy busy!! With the lazy days of summer officially here it is time to let loose!!  And what better way to do that then with a new book to review.  I was approached by author Laurel Garver a few days ago and asked to review her new book "Almost There."

Here is the blurb on the back of the book!!

Paris, the City of Lights. To seventeen-year-old Dani Deane, it’s the Promised Land. There, her widowed mother’s depression will vanish and she will no longer fear losing her only parent, her arty New York life, or her devoted boyfriend.

But shortly before their Paris getaway, Dani’s tyrannical grandfather falls ill, pulling them to rural Pennsylvania to deal with his hoarder horror of a house. Among the piles, Dani finds disturbing truths that could make Mum completely unravel. Desperate to protect her from pain and escape to Paris, Dani hatches a plan with the flirtatious neighbor boy that only threatens the relationships she most wants to save. 

Why would God block all paths to Paris? Could real hope for healing be as close as a box tucked in the rafters

So far I have read the first few chapters and I must say I am hooked, I am reading as fast as my eyes and brain can carry me, so I hope to get the review and author interview up with in the next week or so!!!

Here is the link to Ms. Graver's blog and a picture of the front cover!

Blog link:   http://laurelgarver.blogspot.com/2016/05/release-day-and-giveaway.html

Youtube video link:   

QUOTE MONTAGE

I finally have enough quote photos written out that I can do what I planned to do from the beginning!!! I have really wanted to put to slide show of them together set to music that I can share in a video! Today I finally did it, you may notice that there is another one in the montage that I haven't posted in my quote of the day area, it is a quote from Prince.  As I said before I wasn't a huge fan of his but since he died last week I wanted to do something to pay homage to him since I am really into music and he was a pretty famous musician!!

Hope you enjoy it!!

Peace

IT FINALLY CAME!!!

A few months ago I signed up on B&H (I actually say B&N in the video...oops!!!) publishing to do book reviewing, it had been so long that I actually forgot that they were going to send me one, but today I checked the mail and there it was!!! I received The Prince Warriors by Priscilla Shirer.  I am really looking forward to reading this book, the back cover makes the story sound really interesting.  

A little information about the book: it was published this year (2016) and is categorized at a christian young adult.  I am in the process of doing some further research about the author, but this appears to be the first in a trilogy so that is exciting!!!!

anyway here is the picture of the front cover:

And here is a link to the youtube video I did on the book:

Stay tuned for more on the book and more books to come!!!!

Earth Day at the Zoo

On Saturday our family celebrated earth day at the zoo.  As I said before I love earth day and this was fun, they had several booths explaining different environmental things, which was really cool, you could paint a sidewalk square, or flower pots, or watch a puppet show! It was really nice but we mainly walked around and looked at the animals. It was really cool to see my kids look at the animals and talk to the volunteers about how much they know, Cole really impressed one of them by asking if "Patrick" ( The Ball python) was done shedding his skin. It is probably just because we go so often!

Here are some pictures and a video from the event!!!

Sunday we went to a horse rescue and the kids got to pet horses, donkeys, and miniature horses!! ( I didn't get any pictures because I was busy with the kids) They really enjoyed it, This place was really amazing they rescue animals from bad situation (like going to slaughter, Something I didn't even know they did to horses) Here is the picture from their website.

All in all it was an environmentally packed weekend!! We all came home tired and took a nap!!! Now we are starting another week!!!

Have a great one everyone!!!!

Peace!!!

Quote of the Day

Happy Earth Day!!!

Today I am doing a quote which has a special connection to earth day, I have always loved earth day and it is a day that holds a ton of significance for me.  I remember as a kid learning about how we needed to protect our planet and help it to be healthy and how sometimes we as humans aren't very good at that.

God gave us this great planet and put us in charge of protecting it.  Today and every April 23rd can be a great reminder of what we should be doing to help our earth!!

Come back later to see our earth day trip to the zoo Video!!! 

Happy earth day!!!

One song yoga #4

It's Friday again, meaning it is my day to post my normal one song yoga.

Today's one song yoga includes a lot of poses that are good for just getting out of bed and limbering up our muscles for the day!!

I really love doing these posts every week and spend a lot of time working on what song I am going to choose to go with the poses I have chosen for that week.  This week I really considered using a prince song considering his passing earlier this week, but this song by Madonna spoke to me much more for this routine.  This was a song I had honestly never heard before and I am not sure if it is one of her extremely popular ones or not.  I listened to her much more in the late 90s early 00s.

It isn't overly happy for greeting the morning, but I like the title because it shows the washing and refreshing of a new beginning.  I know not all the lyrics reflect that but oh well....:)


Hope you enjoy your new beginning every day

PEACE

One Song Yoga 3 and a rant

So this week my computer is not working, so I am having to do my blog posts from my iPad.  Not that I am complaining, I love this thing.  It is frustrating though because we are quickly approaching the end of the semester and so this is not really the time for a computer issue.  Besides that, this is the third time in 3 months that we have had computer problems, we probably should have just bought a new one when all of this started, but alas we didn't do that. Computer issues, along with sick kids, along with end of the semester coming up leads to a fair amount of stress.

I looked online and found this one song yoga to Meghan Trainor's "All About that Base" and it definitely seemed fun!!! It is a basic sun salutation but I have found in the past that these are some of the best stress relieving poses.

As part of my seminary education we had an assignment a few months ago entitled "Discoving our Rule of life." The Rule of life is basically a regiment that we do for self care, most of us have spiritual practices such as prayer or service on or rules of life, but it can be anything that helps us to feel closer to our creator, and usually something that relieves the stress that has entered our lives..  I really think that everyone should have a rule of life, because it can help bring you back to center.

Whether you are a student, a mother, work in what ever capacity, I suggest you use this week to focus and re center...We all need it, we all have stress!

Have a great Sunday, and remember the week is just beginning!!