Blog Walk

Remember how I told you all that I was going to be joining the TOS Crew this year, well things are just starting to get under way.  I am so excited and I hope that I am able to share some great products with you all.   

I think there are about 200 Crew members this year and alot of my fellow crew members are doing Blog Walks.  So I thought I would join in.  Each week I am going to list 10 of my fellow Crew Member's Blogs for us to check out.  I am hoping to find some great new blogs to follow.  I am a little late in the game so I am going to double up this week so I don't miss anyone. 

Hope you join me in the walk....

1. Alane Abbett's Reaping a Harvest

2. Alexis Green's Pink & Orange Coffee

3. Alina Neuberger's Live, Laugh, Learn!

4. Amanda Bowen's Mrs. Mandy's Musings

5. Amber Hockman's The Fantastic Five

6. amberschoessow's Refined Metals Academy

7. Amy Henn's Just A Moment in Time

8. Angela Greenwell's Providence Farm

9. Angela Richter's My Journey

10. Angie Wright's Petra School

Menu Plan Monday

This week is going to be a little busy for us, it is VBS week at our church.  I am helping to teach the four year olds this week, and oh yeah, there are S E V E N T E E N of them!!  Extra B vitamins and coffee is definitely on my menu for the week.  So, in other words dinners this week are super simple for the LSG household! 

Here goes...

Meatless Monday
Grilled Cheese & Tomato w/ Green Beans

Tuesday
BBQ Chicken Legs w/ Mashed Sweet Potatoes & Carrots

Wednesday
Tacos, Corn and Black Beans

Thursday
Chicken Parmesean over Noodles w/ Broccoli

Friday
Pizza

Saturday
Deep Dish Taco Squares - this is my new favorite!  If you haven't made these before I highly suggest you add them to your menu real soon! 

Sunday
Pan Roasted Chicken & Veggies
(This is simply oven fried chicken with potatoes, squash, zucchini and onions arranged around the edges of your baking sheet)

Rock of Ages

by Au­gus­tus M. Top­la­dy

Rock of Ages, cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in Thee;
Let the water and the blood,
From Thy wounded side which flowed,
Be of sin the double cure;
Save from wrath and make me pure.

Not the labor of my hands
Can fulfill Thy law’s demands;
Could my zeal no respite know,
Could my tears forever flow,
All for sin could not atone;
Thou must save, and Thou alone.


Nothing in my hand I bring,
Simply to the cross I cling;
Naked, come to Thee for dress;
Helpless look to Thee for grace;
Foul, I to the fountain fly;
Wash me, Savior, or I die.

While I draw this fleeting breath,
When mine eyes shall close in death,
When I soar to worlds unknown,
See Thee on Thy judgment throne,
Rock of Ages, cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in Thee.

The Boy Who Wouldn't Give Up WINNER is...

michelle said...


I think we would enjoy Rowdy Raccoon and the Turtle Who Wanted to Fly

Little Green Books Review & GIVEAWAY!

A few weeks ago we were blessed with 7 Little Green Books from Simon & Schuster. Little Green Books are a line of books that focus on environmental awareness, recycling, endangered animals and planting. These books are made from recycled materials, which we thought was REALLY COOL!

Easy to Be Green by Ellie O'Ryan -This is a activity book that is filled with pages to color, a word search and loads of information. Lots of things for the kids to enjoy! I love how they even talk about natural cleaning products in here. I learned how to make an all natural furniture polish!

 

This is Our World by Emily Sollinger - This is a really neat board book. On each page of the book there is a puzzle piece that the kids collect and at the end of the book the kids can put together a double sided puzzle. This book talks about the environment, pollution, gardening and recycling. This book even gave us an idea to make a recycled bird feeder!

 

Don't Throw That Away! by Lara Bergen - This one is also a board book but this one is a Lift the Flap book. In this book we learned several ideas for recycling common household items into something new, instead of throwing it away.

The Adventures of an Aluminum Can & The Adventures of a Plastic Bottle by Alison Inches

These books are super cute, I think these are my favorite! They are written in the form of a diary. They talk about how aluminum cans and plastic bottles are made and recycled. Did you know that plastic came from crude oil? 

Dora Celebrates Earth Day!  - In this book we learned about conserving energy, gardening, recycling and keeping the Earth clean.  The kids of course love Dora, although the girls won't always admit it!

Watch Me Grow! Blue Plants a Seed - This was a great book. We learned about gardening, planting seeds and how they grow. We planted seeds this year and started our own garden so the kids were really able to relate to this book. We really liked this one too!

The kids putting the puzzle together in the This is Our World book.

This is the completed puzzle, cute isn't it!

Overall, the children and I learned many things that we didn't know before about caring for the Earth, recycling and reusing.  I believe reading the Little Green Books helped to give us a better understanding of things that we can do to be good stewards of the Earth that the Lord has given us.  We have not started recycling yet but I plan to real soon! 

To purchase any of these great books please visit Simmon & Schuster Kids.

Simon & Schuster has offered the same great book bundle to one of YOU!  The WINNER will get all 7 Little Green Books that we reviewed.  The GIVEAWAY will run until June 25th.  Please leave a SEPARATE COMMENT for each way that you enter and you EMAIL ADDRESS!  Here are the ways that you can enter:

• You must be a Follower or Subscriber of LSG to Win! Please leave me a comment and let me know you follow.
• If you have just become a new Follower or Subscriber please tell me how you heard about this giveaway.
• If you blog about this contest please come back and leave me a link to you post.
• Go check out the Little Green Books website and have your kids play some of the games.  Come back and tell me which game your kids liked best.
• Facebook or Twitter about this giveaway and leave me a comment to let me know about it.
• Become a Fan of Simon & Schuster on Facebook.