Christmas Shopping with the Kids

Well, the kids and I had a wonderful shopping trip----one that created the memory of a lifetime! We had gone to the Belk's men's store to buy a Christmas gift for my dear father. We chose the perfect gift and then went to wait in the LONG line. I sent my ds to scope out the other registers to see if there was one with a shorter line. He came back, proud that he had found one. It was in the expensive men's suit department. The man there rang up our purchase and had to put it in a suit bag since they didn't have any other bags that would fit. As he came around the corner of the counter to hand it to me, my dd backed up to get out of the way.
She backed into a rack of suits......it was top heavy.....it fell over.....into the next rack.....it was top heavy.....it fell over....into the next rack......which was top heavy.....it fell over....into the next rack.....which was top heavy......it fell over......into the next rack..............about 10 racks in all, all fell like dominos. We thought that the ninth rack wouldn't fall----it wobbled like a bowling pin that doesn't want to fall, and then suddenly, over it went to complete the destruction falling into number 10. 40 feet of display across the entire front of the department, on the floor. Expensive suits everywhere.....on the floor. As a friend said "pride goeth before the expensive suits fall!" Poor dd stood there with her eyes the size of half dollar coins and her mouth wide open with her hand over her mouth. The rest of us just stood there with our mouths gaping wide open until the hilariousness of it all hit home. One of the men who worked there said "I knew I shouldn't have come to work today!"

Actually, I'm extremely thankful that no one was hurt.....it would have been awful if a small child had been between the racks......but thankfully, there wasn't, so we can just have a wonderful, hysterical memory.

Hope you enjoy our funny Christmas of 2008 memory!

Love,
Sharon

Great Books for Girls

On a couple of the lists I'm on, people have asked for good books for 8-12year old girls. I have several that I love and thought I'd just do a blog post to get them in one place.

1. The Only Sister, Summer Days with the Treelo Triplets, David and Susan books---
These are all from Rod and Staff Storybooks
www.rodandstaffbooks.com.list/christian_storeybooks

2. The Miller Books by Mildred Martin
These are on Grace and Truth Books
graceandtruthbooks.com

3. The Moody Family Series
www.titus2.com/moody-series/index.php

4. Classic books like "Teddy's Button" can be found at Lamplighter Publishers
www.lamplighterpublishing.com

5. Jeanette Oke's Animal Friends; Beverly Lewis' Cul-de-Sac Kids; Elsie Dinsmore books; Trailblazers series; Mandie Mysteries
All of the above can be found at Christian Book Distributors
www.christianbook.com

Hope these help someone!

Love,
Sharon

Preparing our Hearts for Christmas

Well, life has been rolling right along. We're starting to switch gears to prepare our hearts for Christmas.
We've been reading the book "Jotham's Journey." It's a wonderful story about a little boy named Jotham (what a shock). We're reading it every night during Advent----each night so far has ended in a cliffhanger. After the chapter there is a devotional. We're thoroughly enjoying it

I also bought a new Christmas CD the other day at the homeschool store. It's called Mountain Aires Christmas. Beautiful instrumental music. We all love it---in fact, my dd takes it to her cd player every night to go to sleep by.

Enjoy the season. Celebrate the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ! Remember, He was born to die for you----what a GIFT----who needs more?!!!

Love,
Sharon