Christmas Blog Hop

On Thursdays Gae from over at Cherished hearts at home has offered to host a weekly sharing of posts, feel free to come over and join the party.

Here is a smorgasbord of where my thoughts meander in the wider world of blogging:

 I am so looking forward to Advent which starts this Sunday. This year I really want to take the time to do a few more things from home as Sir N missed out last year because I had started working at Big W but this year I will be home....

In preparation for Advent / Christmas I have been looking for ideas and discovered this blog hop. Gosh these ladies have some really great ideas.



Here are a few others that are blogging ideas for the advent season and Christmas:

Carisa over at 1+1+1=1 has shared some great ideas for gifts check out these two posts:

Erica over at Confessions of a Home schooler has also put together a Christmas Gift List post that has some interesting things on it.





Gae has some different ideas for advent over at Cherished Hearts at Home

Erin over at Seven little Australians has some great Advent traditions as well.




Erin has inspired me to join Pinterest and I have found some really interesting Christmas craft ideas there.

Stacy over at Your Sacred Calling has written some rather thought provoking articles on Christmas

• Tradition! Tradition!
• Christmas a High Impact Influence: Should Christians Celebrate Christmas.
• Twas the month before Christmas: Family Advent Ideas
• The Twelve Days of Christmas: A Catechism (and craft) for Children  

And don't forget to go over to A Wise Woman builds her house and enter the give away.

May you be as blessed as I was

$600 voucher give away at a Wise Woman builds Her House

I was over at A Wise Woman Builds Her House on Facebook where June placed a link to her blog about a  give away consisting of one $300 voucher, one $ 200 voucher and one $ 100 voucher making a total of $600 worth of vouchers to be used at Vision Forum. I scanned the post to see if it was limited to any specific country entrants and messaged her on Facebook to see if anyone may enter.  The answer was a resounding yes.  No matter where you live you can enter.  Hop on over to A Wise Woman Builds her House and leave a comment to go into the draw and for extra entries blog about the giveaway.

Vision Forum is a Christian Book store with a difference.  Their range focuses on books that build and encourage the family, their products are encouraging, Christ-honoring resources.  The mission of Vision Forum is to communicate a vision of victory to Christian families. Vision Forum is dedicated to the restoration of Christian family culture.

Click on the image to see Vision Forum catalog.

Blessings

Tuesdays Treasures {18}

 Welcome to Tuesdays Treasures.  I started these posts as a way of sharing great books in honour of my friend in New Zealand who would arrive with the treasures she had unearthed at her weekly trip to the library!

There are so many wonderful books out there hiding on shelves so I invite you to blog about a book on your shelf, one you're reading or one you found at the library and add your post in the linky below. 

This week ...

When I was at Daylesford Paul took me to a second hand bookshelf that came highly recommended where  I discovered this series of books by Joy Berry that was first published in 1988 called Help Me be Good. I was quite pleased to find that these books are still available for purchase from Joy Berry Books: Store

There are 29 books in the series

Bad Sport
Being Bossy
Being Bullied
Being Careless
Being Forgetful
Being Greedy
Being Lazy
Being Mean
Being Messy
Being Rude
Being Selfish
Being Wasteful
Breaking Promises
Cheating
Complaining
Disobeying
Fighting
Gossiping
Lying
Overdoing it
Showing Off
Snooping
Stealing
Tattling
Teasing
Throwing Tantrums
Whining

Or purchase them as a boxed set of 28 books.

Joy has written a short 10 part series on character development  which addresses a few misconceptions, equips parents with guidelines in teaching character to children in different age brackets,  standards and goals are among the topics.

Why I like these little books...
I love these little books as each story clearly illustrates the topic at hand but does not stop there it speaks into the life of the child by empowering them with the information to make a right choice in a number of different areas. Joy talks about the effect of the wrong choice not only to the child but to the family and greater community. If you can find these in your local opp shop do not hesitate to buy them.  They are worth their weight in gold.


Blessings

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Using the linky below to add your treasure: