Christmas Book Exchange
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The deadline for signing up is November 20th, 2010.
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We are asking that you spend $10 or less on the book including shipping.
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We will e-mail you your partner’s information by November 23rd.
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Please have your book in the mail to your partner by December 10th, 2010.
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The Christmas Book Exchange is open to U.S. residents only to ensure that the book gets to you in time for Christmas.
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If you choose to participate, please display the button above in your sidebar. It isn’t required but will let others know about the book exchange.
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You do not need to have a blog to participate.
- Your name
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- Your address
- The age or ages of the children the book would be intended for
- Whether the book should be religious or non-religious in genre
- Whether you prefer a board book or non-board book
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Great Posts I Came Across This Week- November 13
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Read.Explore.Learn.- Veteran’s Day
My Book Tie-Ins of the Week:
The book we read this week is called My Big Brother by Miriam Cohen. It is about a little brother who tries to fill his brother’s shoes when his big brother joins the army. This is a sweet story about how hard he works to do things just as his brother would have. It also talks about what he does to remember his big brother while he is away.
What did we do?
We have a number of members of my family that war veterans. My sister Kate has served in Qatar and Iraq. My grandfather and JDaniel’s grandfather GranDan served in World War II. I decided to share some of his GranDan’s memorabilia from his service.
Observed a Model
First, we carefully looked at a model GranDan made of the plan he flew in the Navy.
Created an Album
We looked through old pictures of GranDan and put them in a photo album from JDaniel to look through. GranDan passed away last winter. JDaniel loves to look at pictures of him.
Hungry Ants Come Marching In!
We have a little ant problem in the kitchen. We have sprayed and put out traps. The ants seem to disappear only to reappear a few weeks later. As I started sweeping them up after breakfast this morning, this song came into my head. I have changed some words to fit our situation. Please feel free to sing along.
The ants go marching one by one. Hurrah, hurrah!
The ants go marching one by one. Hurrah, hurrah!
The ants go marching one by one, the little one stops to pick up a crumb,
And they all march under the table to see if JDaniel left them any lunch, Boom! Boom! Boom!
The ants go marching two by two. Hurrah, hurrah!
The ants go marching two by two. Hurrah, hurrah!
The ants go marching two by two, the little one stops to gnaw on a fruit chew,
And they all march under the table to see if JDaniel left them any lunch. Boom, Boom, Boom!
The ants go marching three by three. Hurrah, hurrah!
The ants go marching three by three. Hurrah, hurrah!
The ants go marching three by three, the little one stops for a scrap of turkey,
And they all march under the table to see if JDaniel left them any lunch, Boom! Boom! Boom!
The ants go marching four by four. Hurrah, hurrah!
The ants go marching four by four. Hurrah, hurrah!
The ants go marching four by four, the little one finds a Cheerio and looks for more,
And they all march under the table to see if JDaniel left them any lunch, Boom! Boom! Boom!
The ants go marching five by five. Hurrah, hurrah!
The ants go marching five by five. Hurrah, hurrah!
The ants go marching five by five, the little one looks for a morsel to survive,
And they all march under the table to see if JDaniel left them any lunch, Boom! Boom! Boom!
The ants go marching six by six. Hurrah, hurrah!
The ants go marching six by six. Hurrah, hurrah!
The ants go marching six by six, the little one eats a strand of a celery stick,
And they all march under the table to see if JDaniel left them any lunch, Boom! Boom! Boom!
The ants go marching seven by seven. Hurrah, hurrah!
The ants go marching seven by seven. Hurrah, hurrah!
The ants go marching seven by seven, the little one searches for food not swept up by eleven,
And they all march under the table to see if JDaniel left them any lunch, Boom! Boom! Boom!
The ants go marching eight by eight. Hurrah, hurrah!
The ants go marching eight by eight. Hurrah, hurrah!
The ants go marching eight by eight, the little one snacks on tidbits that fell off a plate,
And they all march under the table to see if JDaniel left them any lunch, Boom! Boom! Boom!
The ants go marching nine by nine. Hurrah, hurrah!
The ants go marching nine by nine. Hurrah, hurrah!
The ants go marching nine by nine, the little one thinks small food scraps are fine,
And they all march under the table to see if JDaniel left them any lunch, Boom! Boom! Boom!
The ants go marching ten by ten. Hurrah, hurrah!
The ants go marching ten by ten. Hurrah, hurrah!
The ants go marching ten by ten, they don’t realize JDaniel’s Mom set a trap of them,
And they all march under the table to see if JDaniel left them any lunch, Boom! Boom! Boom!
Here’s hoping we stay ant free!
I am linking this to Serenity Now’s Weekend Bloggy Reading!
Thanks for Those Who Serve!
In the air, on land or sea
I want to thank both you and
your families.
Muffin Tin Monday- Veteran’s Day
In honor of Veteran’s Day on Thursday JDaniel had an American flag lunch. I guess it should be called a silicone tray lunch this week rather than a muffin tin.
The tray contained a breadstick cut into fourths, the tops, and bottoms of meatballs (The centerpieces were removed and used in my lunch.), daps of tomato sauce for dipping, and apple stars. I usually do a better job of balancing JDaniel’s lunches with veggies and much less meat. After the fact, I thought cherry tomatoes or grapes would have been better than so many meatballs.
I will do better next week when the theme is the food pyramid.
Great Posts I Came Across This Week- November 6
Fawn Dear has a number of Christmas resources for planning in a post called The Best Holiday Planner – By You, For You!
Sweetest Jane has a super post on How to Get Your Babies to Clean the Bathroom. JDaniel is big into cleaning and helping right now. Her little guy reminds me a lot of JDaniel.
Sellabit has a beautiful post about her daughter I really loved. She called her post-Growing Up..
Love and Lollipops has a cute idea for helping your children learn colors in her post Colour Fun #9- Buckets of Colour. While you are there you may want to check out her World in a Box.
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