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I promised to share with you a special way to welcome in the Christmas season, so here it is!
Marybeth Whalen is a homeschooling mom of six children and has just published her first ebook! It is called A Recipe for Christmas Joy and she was sweet enough to give me a copy to review and another copy for a giveaway!
Marybeth has filled this book with over 50 recipes, menus, devotionals, practical advice, and tips that will inspire you to put the focus of Christmas back on Jesus as you and your family prepare to celebrate this upcoming season!
Here are a few of my favorite things from the ebook:
~A week-by-week checklist for organizing your Christmas
~Celebrating Advent
~Creative gift ideas that won't break the bank
~Homemade gifts
~Hosting a Christmas peppermint tea
~25 ways to make the holidays holy days
~List of Christmas read-alouds for you and your children
and most importantly...
~How to make Jesus the center of your Christmas!
For more details, please visit Marybeth's blog, Cheaper by the Half-dozen.
If you would like to be entered into the giveaway for this wonderful ebook, just leave a comment by November 27, 07 at 10:00pm. For all of you who would like to order it, it is an ebook, so as soon as your order is confirmed, it will arrive in your inbox! No waiting on shipping!!
I would love to be entered! :) Thanks for the opportunity!
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ReplyDeleteGod Bless,
Mrs.Garcia
Oh it sounds like a wonderful book. Please include me in your drawing. Thanks so much, Kelli.
ReplyDeleteOoo ooo ooo!! Pick me! Pick me!! :)
ReplyDeleteSounds like a really great book to add to my library. Please count me in. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for offering the chance to win a copy of this book! :-)
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Becca
This sounds like a wonderful book. If you ship to Ontario, please enter me in the draw.
ReplyDeleteHope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving.
Blessings,
Mary
Oh, enter me too please! :)
ReplyDeletePlease add my name. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteKelli, I'd like to be entered in the drawing. Nancy
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I would love to be entered, Kelli! Thanks for sharing about MaryBeth's blog - it's great, and I love the title. Hope that you and your gang had a wonderful and very blessed Turkey Day yesterday! :o)
ReplyDeleteThat sounds perfect! I'd love a copy! :)
ReplyDeleteP.S. Do we have a date on when the new SD issue will come out? As you can tell, I can't wait! :)
Thanks Kelli for this sweet review! For all of you who would like to order it, it is an ebook, so as soon as your order is confirmed, it will arrive in your inbox! No waiting on shipping!!
ReplyDeleteThanks to all of you who order--
I would love to be entered in the contest! Thank you!!
ReplyDeleteKelli - the e-book sounds wonderful! It would be lovely to be entered in your contest!
ReplyDeleteWe are having trouble this year coming up with our theme for Advent. Last year we studied the Names of God, and it was so meaningful, we are having trouble coming up with something as good!
May the Lord bless you with a Christ-centered Christmas!
It sounds wonderful... please I would love to be entered!
ReplyDeleteI would love to enrich our holiday season!
ReplyDeletePlease oh please enter me...I would love to have a copy....glad your Thanksgiving went well.
ReplyDeleteHow fun! Please enter me in your drawing! And thank you for all the fun tips and "clean alongs," very inspiring!
ReplyDeleteblessings,
Theresa
Arlington, TX
I really like the theme Christmas JOY! The ebook looks interesting as well.
ReplyDeleteMelissa
What a great idea! We NEED to keep Christ in Christmas. Too many folks are so materialistic and only think of things they want and have no thought for the real Reason for the Season.
ReplyDeleteEnter me for her wonderful book and I will be checking her blog, too. Thanks for the info.
Betty in Oklahoma
I would love to be entered too!
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You can see it here if you would like. :)
http://aikoheiwa.livejournal.com/303248.html
I would love to be included. It sounds wonderful. Thanks so much. Diana
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I would love to enter the drawing!
ReplyDeleteThis sounds wonderful! Please include me!
ReplyDeleteAnd happy day after Thanksgiving to you! :-)l
I would love to be entered too!
ReplyDeleteI'm in for the book, please!
ReplyDeleteI would also like to be entered into this. Thank you so much for the chance. God Bless.
ReplyDeleteI'd love to be entered for this contest. Thanks so much!!
ReplyDeletePlease consider me entered. Thank you for giving us the chance to win!
ReplyDeleteYes, Kelli, I am still full! However, my husband has already eaten 3 plates of leftovers today!
ReplyDeleteI would love to be entered in the drawing. It sounds like a great book.
This is a book that will be a treasure to have! It is always a Joy when one knows the author! I would love to win this book! Crossing fingers and toes!
ReplyDeleteKelli I hope that you enjoyed your Thanksgiving with your sweet family!
hugs NG
Awesome! Do include me for the drawing. Thanks.
ReplyDelete~ Siri
I would love to be entered in the contest!
ReplyDeleteI was just meditating on how to begin showing Jesus in the holidays. Jessica is 2yr and starting to understand more. It is important that she knows more about Jesus than Santa Claus.
Hope you had a great holiday!
I would love to be entered! The ebook sounds very interesting. Terry
ReplyDeletePlease enter my name too! Thanks so much!
ReplyDeleteKim
I hope you had a nice thanksgiving with your family...
ReplyDeleteI would love to have "a recipe for Christmas joy" and find ways to make the celebration holier. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteit sounds like a wonderful book! thank u.
ReplyDeletemissy
Those are all great subjects to be covered in one book, sounds like a great combination of things! Thanks for having the drawing!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the opportunity to participate in your Giveaway!
ReplyDeleteThe book sounds wonderful-include me in the drawing. I hate to say it, but the world has "made" us look at the commercial side of Christmas and forget WHY we are even celebrating it to begin with: the birth of Christ! Without Christ, there would be no Christ-mas!
ReplyDeleteYou were my first contest, and now you can be my second! Try try again, right??
ReplyDeleteJody
i would like to be entered. Thanks!
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ReplyDeletesounds like a great book to have-thanks for your great site too!
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This sounds wonderful, please enter me in the contest. Blessings, LeAnn
ReplyDeleteI would love to be entered, I love Christmas and spreading joy with goodies.
ReplyDeletethank you for this lovely givaway.
Judy
Sounds like fun. Enter me, please.
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Stephanie
Kelli,
ReplyDeletePlease enter me into the contest. Oh, I hope I win!!!
Thanks a million.
God Bless,
Amy
I would like to be entered into the drawing, sound like a wonderful cookbook
ReplyDeleteI am still really full from Thanksgiving dinner! I'm still eating on leftover turkey and I just love it!
ReplyDeleteThe book sounds wonderful and I'd love to be entered!
Please enter me in your contest - and I absolutely LOVE your blog!
ReplyDeleteHelen in CA
I would love to win this ebook. We all need to put Christ back in Christmas!Please enter me in your drawing. Kelli you have a lovely blog.- debbie
ReplyDeleteI would like to please be entered in the contest. Thank you very much.
ReplyDeleteLaurie Harris
Hi Kelli
ReplyDeleteOh how fun...there are quite ALOT of 'players'...so I won't hold my breath with winning- but MaryBeth's book sounds charming. God bless her hard work.
Kimmie
mama to 6
one homemade and 5 adopted
This sounds like a great book! Count me in for the drawing!
ReplyDeleteI saw mention of this book on her site. I would be thrilled to win a copy.
ReplyDeletePlease include me in your drawing. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteAshley
forhisglorytooATcomcastDOTnet
Nice contest! Please enter my name, sounds like a neat book!
ReplyDeleteKatherine
It sounds like a lovely book. Please enter me-thank you. :)
ReplyDeletejoanna
http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/glad2bheld/
sounds like a wonderful book. i would love to own such a book. i'll go over to her site and take a look. thanks.
ReplyDeleteSure sign me up. Sounds like a wonderful book.
ReplyDeleteI would love to be entered. Sounds like a wonderful book! Thanks
ReplyDeleteOOOOH please enter me, Kelli! I would LOVE a copy of this! Thanks so much~
ReplyDeleteJenn
This book sounds wonderful. Please enter me in your giveaway. Thank you. Linda
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful giveaway-please enter me, Kelli. I love Christmas, but it has gotten way too commercial-really makes me sad.
ReplyDeletePlease enter my name. Many thanks.
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful giveaway!! Count me in!
ReplyDeleteIn your posts below, everything looks simply gorgeous!! :D
Have a great week Kelli!
Enter me..Enter me...
ReplyDeleteOh, look! We are both running a Give Away this week! Aren't they just a blast :). I love giving away fun goodies!
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Would love to be entered.
ReplyDeleteDeby
Please enter me in the contest. Thank you, Regina
ReplyDeletecount me in!
ReplyDeleteIt sounds great; I'll play along.
ReplyDeleteKelli,
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Love, Heather
Hello dear Kelli, this truly does sound like a fabulous book! Please enter my name in your giveaway:-) xox
ReplyDeleteHi Kelli,
ReplyDeleteI would love to win this ebook.
Merry Christmas,
Angela Billings
I would love to be entered in as well:)
ReplyDeleteThe books sounds perfect! This would be wonderful to read!
ReplyDeleteBella
Sounds like a wonderful book! It looks like she will be selling plenty of copies!
ReplyDeleteI would love to enter!! The book sounds terrific!! Thanks Kelli!
ReplyDeleteBlessings,
Paula
I would love to be entered!
ReplyDeletePlease enter me in the drawing for the book!
ReplyDeleteOh Kelly, please enter me in the giveaway! My darling 14 year old daughter pointed out to me yesterday that there just isn't enough CHRIST in CHRISTmas.....and started asking questions about why we have to have a tree, why we have to give gifts, etc. She doesn't understand the reason for all of the secularism if we are celebrating the birth of our Saviour.....in all honesty, I didn't have many answers for her. It broke my heart to see her so burdened, and my not being able to answer many of her questions and concerns. Anyhow, I would LOVE to be entered in this drawing (and I'm really praying that I win this one, because even though we've never done a whole lot with the materialism/secular portion of Christmas, we have also not done our best to keep CHRIST as the center of CHRISTmas). Thanks!
ReplyDeleteBlessings!
Lori4squaremom
please enter me in the drawing!
ReplyDeleteHi Cindy,
ReplyDeleteI am just playing catch up on my favorite blogs since I have been on vacation. Your Thanksgiving photos are beautiful!
Hi Kelli, Please enter me in the giveaway. BTW... I love the magazine and all the extras!! :)
ReplyDeleteBlessings and peace! Tina
ME ME PICK ME!!!!!
ReplyDeletePlease enter me in the drawing as well.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a wonderful book. I would love to be entered. :D
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