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Good Books ~ One Realm Beyond

07 Friday Mar 2014

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Cantor D’Ahma waited his whole life for this day. Born with a gift to jump between worlds, the young realm walker is finally ready to leave his elderly mentor and accept his role as protector and defender of the realms.
But mere hours after he steps through his first portal, Cantor discovers that his job will be more dangerous and difficult than he ever imagined. The realms are plagued with crime and cruelty, and even members of the once-noble Realm Walkers Guild can no longer be trusted. To make matters worse, his first assignment – finding a dragon to assist him on his quest—has led him to Bridger, who is clearly inept and won’t leave him alone.
With the help of his new friends Bixby and Dukmee, Cantor must uncover the secrets of the corrupt guild before they become too powerful to be stopped. But his skills aren’t progressing as fast as he would like, and as he finds himself deeper and deeper in the guild’s layers of deceit, Cantor struggles to determine where his true allegiance lies.

One of my kiddos was super excited to see this book on my desk, so much so that I did things a little differently this time around.  I handed it to her and told her to enjoy it, and afterward to please grant me an interview.

Sweet girl has talked though the book, and I know she enjoyed it a great deal.  Here are the basic things she had to say in the formal interview, which were not as in depth as those before bed conversations:


“This book is a little different from past books I have read by Donita K Paul, in that it introduces the heavier side of the evil characters more quickly.  I noticed a lot of parallels between this book and the Dragon Keeper books, like mind speaking.  There were wizards and realm walkers, with realm walkers being more similar to the wizards of the Dragon Keeper books.
One Realm BEYOND is a well written book that I enjoyed.  The beginning of the book, as is common with other Donita K Paul books, is slow but it is rewarding when you press though.  The slow beginning is full of necessary information to the story.”
If you enjoy other books by Donita K Paul, I highly recommend this one to you!  This book was provided to me by BookLookBloggers in exchange for my honest opinion.  If you are interested in reading books for review you can check BookLookBloggers out here.


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Small Change and Fun Experiments

07 Friday Mar 2014

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 A few years ago several small changes were made in our home, after some routine tests showed my cholesterol out of balance and a vitamin D deficiency.  We swapped our vegetable oil for olive oil and added avocados as a regular addition to sandwiches, tacos and smoothies.  I also added a vitamin d supplement to my smoothies.    And the next year, all my tests came back great.

And, I am happy to say that most of my family now adds a little vitamin D to their water or smoothies too!

After the first of this year, I was concerned about the busy semester ahead and decided to do a few more small things to help us eat out less on the busy days, and to make better snacking choices.  To help lessen waste and to encourage all of us to eat more veggies, we have started to cut, chop or slice them and put them in small containers that are easy to grab.

This is working pretty well, as long as we don’t get a weekend where we are out, and our beautiful ready to eat veggies get all, well gross.


Okay, the the fun experiment.  Recently I saw a magazine article about regrowing veggies.  I tore the article out of the magazine and placed it on my desk, on the always present pile of ideas and to do lists.

Then one day, a little while later, I brought home a celery bunch.   Mae got out a knife and chopped the end of the celery right off before the groceries were even put away!  She set the experiment all up, along with some carrot stubs in another bowl.  The carrots are not doing anything besides getting slimy, but the celery…

Can I just tell you, Mae and I are a little silly excited about those new celery stalks?  Hopefully, everyone in the family will be excited to eat celery sticks from this bunch!

Tell me, have you ever regrown celery or any other vegetable?

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Goals for the Week

04 Tuesday Mar 2014

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Last Week’s Goals
Making Home
Read 3 More Chapters of Love Does, Read with my granddaughter
Write a Love Note
Declutter Master Bedroom & add some pretty touches

Personal Growth  
Continue working on memorizing Ephesians 6:1-8
3 Days of Cardio.  3 Days strengthening exercises 
Read ~ 5 Conversations You Must Have with Your Daughter, Where There Was No Church, The Power of a Half Hour, Million Little Ways  Listen to 2 Chapters of Bonhoeffer audio book
Ministry Goals
Work on Perfectly Unique lesson series (chapters 5, 6)I recently needed to take time off from teaching Middle School SS, so I am setting this study aside for one with Chica
Take 5 photographs, edit and process
Write 3 notes of encouragement or gratitude
Household Business
Submit tax paperwork to accountant
Find a replacement for my current INR testing site
Bottle new batch of Vanilla!

Goals for March 3- 8

Making Home
Read Aloud 3 More Chapters of Love Does, Read with my granddaughter
Write a Love Note
Complete Week 1 of MSM’s “4 Weeks to a More Organized Home

Personal Growth  
Continue working on memorizing Ephesians 6:1-8
Increase run to 1 ½ miles, 3 times this week
3 Days strengthening exercises 
Read ~ 5 Conversations You Must Have with Your Daughter, Where There Was No Church, The Power of a Half Hour, Million Little Ways,  Listen to 2 Chapters of Bonhoeffer audio book
Ministry Goals
Work on A Young Woman After God’s Own Heart, chapters 1 & 2
Take 5 photographs, edit and process
Write 3 notes of encouragement or gratitude
Household Business
Submit tax paperwork to accountant
Find a replacement for my current INR testing site
Complete Section 1 of Udemy course

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Say Goodbye to Survival Mode Giveaway WINNER!

03 Monday Mar 2014

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Larson Fam, you have won the book giveaway.  Please contact me so I can get this book right out to you.  Congratulations.

Thank each of you for participating.

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