Too Cute not to Share

Yesterday, my favorite boy had his 3rd birthday party and I wanted to show you what we found for him. . . kiddie size cornhole boards!

Spirit of Tennessee Cookbook

With Lynne Tolley and Pat Mitchamore’s Jack Daniel's Spirit of Tennessee Cookbook you get a history lesson along with some great traditional Southern recipes. The photos are coffee table quality and reflect much of the Lynchburg’s history and the landscape of middle Tennessee.

The recipes in the book have basic ingredients that one would have in the pantry. Not all the recipes have Jack Daniels whiskey as an ingredient, but most of the ones that do would not be affected if you left it out. The dessert and cakes and pies sections alone are worth having the book. Spread throughout the sections, are well-written anecdotes and stories for the reader to enjoy, especially if you are a Southerner. Some of the stories about hog-killing or cooking possums may make city folk a little squeamish. If you don’t know how to whittle there is a whole section to help you learn.

This cookbook would make a great addition to your collection or combine it with a bottle of Jack Daniels to make a great gift. I reviewed this book as part of the Thomas Nelson’s Book Review Blogger program. http://brb.thomasnelson.com/

30% off Coupon @ Gap and Old Navy

I received an e-mail from Gap with a 30% off coupon for November 12-15. I can pass this coupon on to 25 friends and family members by sending an e-mail to them. I have twenty left. If you think you might use this coupon just e-mail me and ask and I will send you one too. You can see above that it is also good at Old Navy stores.
gibsond2@k12tn.net

Beautiful Fall Day

Just thought I would share a couple of pics I took on this beautiful fall day!

Free Class--Holidays in Hand

Head on over to JessicaSprague.com and register for this free class. She is a contributing editor for Creating Keepsakes Magazine. It sounds interesting and you don't have to be online at a specific time. You can just log on and look when you can!

Coupon site

I find lots of good coupons at freeflys. You should check it out. There are some five and ten dollar coupons on toys here and many one dollar coupons on food! You many have to download a coupon printer, if you don't already have it from using other sites.

Free Offer at Kodak

Go to the Kodak website today. They are giving away gift codes for $15.00 worth of merchandise. The offer, once you get your code, is good until November 5th. It would be a good time to upload some fall or Halloween pictures for printing or make a photo book.

We Love Fall

One of our K-8 moms, Kasie B. loves Halloween and fall and has her family's yard decorated with this great fall scene. If you would like to share your fall scenes just send a picture to myself gibsond2@k12tn.net or Misty dowdym1@k12tn.net
Thanks Kasie for sharing! Your yard looks great!

The Tallest of Smalls--a book review

The Tallest of Smalls by Max Lucado and illustrated by Maria Monescillo is a children’s story about wanting to fit in with the crowd. We’ve all felt the disappointment of not being chosen by the “in” crowd or wanting something very strongly only to find that when we have this thing, it is not all we thought it was going to be. In this book Ollie, a young boy learns these lessons the hard way, but in the end realizes that he is special and loved all the time when he meets Jesus. I don’t recommend this book for toddlers, I think the message and the vocabulary are too difficult for them to understand, but any school age child could feel empathy for Ollie.

The illustrations are bold, bright and appealing. If you want to gift this book there is a page in front to personalize. After reading this book aloud I felt like some of the rhyming patterns are tongue twisters and did not flow well. This story’s message of how we are all special and how we don’t need others approval is one that children cannot hear too often, but I wouldn’t pay the full retail price for this book.

I reviewed this book as a member of the Thomas Nelson’s Book Review Blogger Program. http://brb.thomasnelson.com/

More Bus Duty Thoughts

I know you've heard the news. President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. Some people believe he didn't really deserve to win. I don't know about that, but I know the people who give the prize overlooked me, you see I had bus duty again last Friday morning. The person on bus duty does a lot for world peace and harmony. We see that the hungry eat breakfast, we resolve all sorts of conflict--especially those brought to our attention by the wronged party(aka tattlers). We control chaos while paroling the gym and then get the school citizens to class in a safe and orderly manner. We do this all alone with just our teacher voices and maybe some eye contract that says you better straighten up!
I'm just Saying!