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Christmas Music: FFH One Silent Night

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FFH One Silent NightIt’s no secret that I really enjoy Christmas music.  For whatever the reason, it just lightens my spirits and makes me smile.  Every year I add at least one new album to my Christmas music collection.  Now, that we have mp3 players, pretty much all of our music goes onto those and/or onto our smartphones.  D has a rule that I’m not allowed to start listening to Christmas music until Thanksgiving.  Well, thanks to the fact that I am reviewing a new Christmas album, I was given an exception this year. **grin**

I’ve been enjoying listening to a nice selection of Christmas songs from FFH:

  • Baby It’s Cold Outside
  • Jingle Bell Rock
  • One Silent Night
  • I’ll Be Home for Christmas
  • The Birthday of the King
  • O Come O Come Emmanuel
  • Winter Wonderland
  • Glorious Impossible
  • O Little Town of Bethlehem
  • Heaven and Nature Sing

One Silent Night contains many old Christmas favorites as well as a few new original songs.  FFH has done a great job with their renditions of the classic songs, and the original songs are sure to become new favorites around here.  I personally enjoy the upbeat, contemporary Christian sound of FFH.  Obviously, by glancing over the songs, you can see that FFH chose to include some “secular” songs as well as Christian songs on this album.  I think the song choice is fun, so I don’t have an issue with it.

Once again, I’m happy to be able to offer up a copy of the album to one of my readers.  This will be a download and not a physical copy of the album.  The giveaway is open to ALL of my readers.

Giveaway – Open to all readers – Ends 11/22

Family Movie Night: The Christmas Lodge

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The Christmas Lodge

It’s time for another great family movie night movie.  Yes, I know that it’s a little early for Christmas movies, but the reality is that Thanksgiving is not that far away (next week).  It’s time to start pulling out those old favorite Christmas movies and adding a few new ones to the collection.  We’re happy to add The Christmas Lodge to our Christmas movie collection.

The Christmas Lodge is a heart-warming story about family and making wonderful memories that last.

During a weekend getaway in the mountains, Mary comes across an old lodge which looks quite familiar.  When she realizes that it’s a special lodge, The Christmas Lodge, from her family’s past, she decides that she wants to find a way to help Jack restore it to its former glory.  Jack, while a proud man, realizes that this is his opportunity to bring is family’s heritage back to life, so he hesitantly accepts Mary’s offer of help.  When Mary tells her ailing Grandfather of the task ahead, he lights up and begins to tell stories from the past which gives Mary the extra motivation that she needs to continue to push through all of the trials.  The question is – will they be able to complete all of the work on The Christmas Lodge in time for one more family Christmas?

We enjoyed watching this Thomas Kinkade Christmas movie together.  It was a clean, heart-felt story that stresses the importance of faith and family.

As Christmas is a time of giving, it’s only fitting that I am able to give away 1 copy of Thomas Kinkade’s The Christmas Lodge to one of my readers.  Giveaway is open to ALL my readers even international readers.

GIVEAWAY – Open to all readers – Ends 11/22

Math Mammoth Geometry

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Math Mammoth offers both full curriculum math products as well as topic/grade based products and practical application products.  Last year, we had the wonderful opportunity to try out some of the practical application math products (Make It Real Learning).  This year, since Munchkin is working on geometry, we decided to try out the green series geometry worksheet set. Part of the Math Mammoth “green” series, Math Mammoth Geometry Worksheets Collection contains geometry-related worksheets for grades 5-8. The worksheets have been pulled out from Math Mammoth Grade 5, 6, and 7 Worksheets Collections, plus two worksheets related to Pythagorean theorem come…

Veggie Tales 2011 Gift Guide

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In Larry Learns to Listen, Larry is so caught up in jumping into playing his new video game that he forgets to listen to the guidance he is receiving from others.  His failure to listen leads to some unfortunate events. In this new Veggie Tales video, viewers follow Larry as he learns to valuable lesson of listening.  The dvd contains two previous Veggie Tales episodes – Pistachio – The Little Boy Who Woodn’t and Josh and the Big Wall– to help with the lesson of listening. The bonus features include: Listen Singalong Song Visit a Marionette Theater “Larry Learns to…

First Form Latin by Memoria Press

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First Form Latin by Memoria Press is written by Cheryl Lowe author of Latina Christiana. It’s a mastery approach to Latin that uses workbooks and stresses using the trivium method to learning Latin – grammar, logic, and rhetoric. First Form Latin uses the Christian pronunciation for their program. The First Form complete package includes: Teacher Manual Teacher Manual Workbook & Test Key Student Text Student Workbook Quizzes and Tests book Flashcards Pronunciation Guide cd Instructional Dvds (Glen Moore, instructor) The complete package which includes the dvds and flashcards is $115.  The smaller package which does not contain the dvds and flashcards is $55.…