WINTER'S COMING GIVEAWAY HOP!!!

Welcome to

Winter's Coming Giveaway Hop

hosted by Planet Weidknecht and

Going Crazy!! Wanna Go??!!

Each blog on the list below has a giveaway for you to enter,

so after you enter mine, hop around the list and enter the other giveaways.

Each giveaway is worth at least $20.

Bundle up in your sweats, pull up a chair, 

and warm your fingers on the keyboard!

Begins November 1 at 12:01am and
Ends November 15 at 11:59pm.

My prize is stuff to get you warm and stuff to keep you warm. Hot cocoa, cookies, tea, gloves, and some great surprises. Do not forget to enter all of the other great giveaways and Mommy's little sister at http://dealsharingaunt.blogspot.com
GOOD LUCK!

My prize is...
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List of Participating Blogs:

Great Turkey Escape Giveaway Hop!!

Welcome to The Great Turkey Escape Hop hosted by me, Cheap Is The *New* Classy! A bunch of cool bloggers have come together to bring you this awesome Thanksgiving themed giveaway hop! With NO TURKEY! This event will run until 11/15 to give you plenty of time to enter on every one's blog for more chances to win fabulous prizes to give you a little something extra to be thankful for this holiday season! All of the prizes are worth at least $25!  My prize is kitchen gadgets, some items for your holiday table, and other surprises. Don't forget to enter all of the other giveaways and Mommy's little sister at http://dealsharingaunt.blogspot.com    GOOD LUCK!!!


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Hurricane Sandy is almost here!!!

   So it's just about here! We have been talking and hearing about Hurricane Sandy all week. Our television stations have forgotten about the presidential election. I guess that could be a good thing, a lot of people I have talked to are kind of sick of listening about it.
   Well, back to the hurricane, it looks like most of our family members will be home around noon. We are hoping that their companies close down.  The threat of severe flooding is very real. If you live near our shoreline there is a mandatory evacuation. They are closing our highways in the state. They are not allowing any trucks into Connecticut.  They are saying that a lot of us will lose power which could last for days just like last this time last year. We were without power for 8 days but my sister was without power for 11 days. It doesn't seem possible in today's day in age but it is a huge task trying to put electricity back up to over 500,000 customers.
   The newest report is that they will be closing all highways to trucks at 11:00am and all non-emergency personnel at 1:00pm.  I hope that we do not lose power here again. we lost our lights our phones and the cell phones were overloaded. You know it's pretty back when DUNKIN DONUTS  is almost out of coffee!
  The most important thing in all of this is that people are safe. There are some people along the coast that did not want to leave last year and one of the reasons was that they could not take their pets. This year they have shelters that allow people to bring their pets. I am so happy! I know that I would not be able to leave my pets behind.
    We have some giveaways ending soon and some starting soon. We will start them as soon as possible and try to stay on as long as we have power.

BOOK REVIEW LOVELIER THAN DAYLIGHT BY ROSSLYN ELLIOT

     I was given the book  LOVELIER THAN DAYLIGHT BY ROSSLYN ELLIOT for the purpose of a review from http://www.booksneeze.com . This was a fantastic book that made me want to keep reading it until I reached the last page.
    Susanna Hanby finds herself  in the year 1875 with the knowledge that her sister Rachel and her children are missing. She rushes to her sister's house where she is met by her sister's alcoholic husband who informs her that she has run away and given her children away. She vows to find out what really happened .  When she finds out that the children have been given to orphanages she falls into despair.
     I found myself wanting to run and get her nieces and nephews myself. I felt myself cheering everyday that she will be able to get them back and upset when she was unable to.    Susanna is a strong temperance crusader but when she meets Johann Giere who is an heir to a German-American brewery the sparks start to fly. She cannot bring herself to ignore his profession when she is so against alcohol. This makes her passion and her principles clash.
   Johann decides that he will help her with her problem and makes her an offer. It is an offer that she wants to refuse but cannot. I was unable to put this book down without thinking about it. I really loved this book.
   I was given this book without any other compensation. All opinions are my own.
  

GETTING READY FOR THE STORM!!

Hurricane Sandy update!
   Yesterday after calling places and waiting in line for over 2 hours Mommy's little sister http://dealsharingaunt.blogspot.com and Uncle Mike got a generator. Now, the bad news is that then the unforeseen spending begins, the generator part was easy, not. The extension cords, special ones, are about $60 each. Then a big gas can another $20. Mommy also talked to her little brother and he was able to get a generator secured  for her but they had to go over half an hour to get it. So now 3 of my children have one so I guess I will be okay.
  The gas stations are already crazy, heck they were crazy last night. I went to a Sunoco station near Mommy's house and I almost got hit. Then I went to Lowes, no D size batteries, no flashlights, and very little lights that use batteries. I think that last year everyone was scared, the summer made us forget. But, now this one looks even worse than last year.
   Tomorrow is Uncle Lala's birthday party, today is his "real" birthday. We have decided to cook 2 turkey breasts so that 1, we will have a nice dinner before the storm and 2, we won't have to throw them away. I used to think that I would miss TV the most now I think I will miss my computer and my blog.
   We are having so much fun getting new followers and following other blogs. Bobo has a cold so he and I are having a together day. Yesterday he told us how the sun goes down and the moon comes up. Then he said that we live on the earth and there are 9 planets. I think we have 8 now, but I am sure that will change like everything else in education.
   This is where we show our ages. We are going to make our own solar system out of a hanger and some play dough. Oh my gosh for the first time in many years we will not have to watch the closings for school. Although I never sent my kids anyway, when I as the parent thought it wasn't safe, not the school officials. I guess I was a homeschooler even then, just waiting to realize it.

WE SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN A GENERATOR LAST YEAR

     So, here we are again. We are experiencing the same thing that we did last year at this time. I guess some of us have already written off Halloween for the second year in a row.
     The latest weather report showing the tracking path of Hurricane Sandy shows with a 90% certainty that it will hit the Northeast U.S. Sunday or Monday. They are saying it might hit New York City, New Jersey, or Connecticut. Whichever it decides to hit all of the eastern seaboard will see a lot of problems. Last year we were without power on the average of 6 to 9 days.
    We said last year we should get a generator.Now, as usual we kept putting it off. Yes, we worry about ourselves but our main concern is for Bobo and Sissy.  I suppose it is time to start taking out the flashlights, and all of the other essentials.
    Every day is another day of learning.  I've said it before and I will say it again, the kids are teaching us. They continue showing us every day just how much they can learn if someone just takes the time to make sure that they are really listening and taking part in the lesson. Whenever I drive by one of our public schools I wish I could go inside as a past Board Member and tell them how much kids need that extra little boost so that they can succeed.  I know I will hear all and more that I have heard before. Classes are too big, not enough teachers and etc. So, what is the solution? It's a tough question. One of the answers, I believe, is more parental involvement, like the PTA, helping out at the school and many other ways.
   We have found that Homeschooling is actually giving us more teaching time. When Bobo was in kindergarten there were fundraisers, PTA meetings, helping out at the school, waiting to drop off and pick him up. If  a child is not going to get all day kindergarten then they should just forget it altogether, for them to be in school for just a little over 2 hours is ridiculous.

HOPPIN' HALLOWEEN GIVEAWAY HOP

EVENT DATES: October 25th (12:01am EST) - 31st (11:59pm EST)

Please visit the host of this hop here http://www.mamanyc.net/

HASHTAG → #HoppinHalloween

Welcome to the Hoppin’ Halloween Giveaway Hop hosted by MamaNYC! We’re celebrating Halloween with an amazing event that’ll feature ALL sorts of prizes, which means there is going to be plenty of prizes you’ll want to get your hands on! With over 90 blogs participating, Hoppin’ Halloween is surely going to be a BLAST! This event will run from October 25-31st so you will definitely have plenty of time to enter all of our giveaways. Good luck and Happy Halloween!

  Another Halloween Giveaway Hop! We in the Northeast are watching Hurricane Sandy as she is looking like she will be coming to us or will be near us. Last year we were unable to have a Halloween at all. It was the great October snowstorm and we were without power for 6 days, some of us were even longer than that!
  So, in the interest of keeping warm we will givaway some of our favorite things.
  Let's start with with 2 mugs , coffee, tea bags, marshmallows, hot chocolate, cookies candy  and some surprises. Maybe something scary??

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