Shelly’s Journal

The Winter Issue of The Old Schoolhouse magazine arrived in my mailbox a few weeks ago. I’d been meaning to put up a post on it before I went on my blogging sabbatical. While I’ve been distracted by my many projects and lack of sleep, I did take some time to go over [...]

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I’m not sure how I found this website, but it’s been a great help to me in my book buying frenzy state. You can search a variety of web sources for the best price on a book from one website! It’s pretty cool.
It’s called Best Book Buys.
Okay, I haven’t bought anything yet as [...]

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…..from Book Closeouts is that as soon as you place an order, they get more stuff that you want in, so then you want to place another order. It’s a terrible, terrible addiction.
Here are some great finds for the day…but tomorrow they could be gone and yet better stuff could be there.
Christian Books
Devotions For [...]

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Someone gave me this book for a shower gift when Bump was born. I love it. Cry just about every time I read it.

Love Song For a Baby
by Marion Dane Bauer
It starts out:
Before you saw your first star in the sky
Before the sun ever kissed you
Before you cried your [...]

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I’m not reviewing the Mitford Series. I just have a few observations that I’d like to make.
First of all, does anyone know a pastor or priest like Father Tim? I am not familiar with Episcopalian clergy, but never in the Catholic church did you ever meet a priest so entirely devoted to his [...]

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I’m not going to do a full blown review of this books, but just give a brief summary. I’ll be doing that with some of the books I read - just too much for me to review them all!
Here’s the run down on the book:
Title: The Mommy Manual: Planting Roots That Give Your [...]

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This is my first review of The Old Schoolhouse - The Magazine for Homeschooling Families. I am reviewing the Summer 2005 issue.
Since this was my first copy of the actual magazine, I have to add how impressed I was with it. It’s 200 pages of great homeschooling stuff, full color and packed to [...]

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Book Title: Sex and the Supremacy of Christ
Editors: John Piper and Justin Taylor
Publishers: Crossway
Disclaimer: I was not paid to provide a review of this material - I was not even given a free copy of the book. Well, initially I was given a free copy of the book through [...]

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Previous Post on This Book
As I’ve been preparing to begin my posting on The Excellent Wife, I realized that I had promised a summary post on Shaunti Feldhahn’s book, For Women Only: What You Need to Know About the Inner Lives of Men. I had finished my reviews of it during my vacation, but [...]

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Last night, as I tied my quilt on the living room floor, I wanted to flip in a movie to watch as I tied. I recently acquired the two Left Behind movies for a song from Walmart. I hadn’t seen either of them in a while, so I decided to put the original [...]

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