15 Questions

My friend, Narelle from Moments For Mum, asked her readers to reply to 15 questions she chose.  Here are my answers.  Feel free to answer any of these questions in the comments, or make your own post.

1. What are the most important values in your life right now?  My faith, my family, my friends, and my church.

2. The best thing about your family is? How willing they are to help us when we are in need.

3. Things that make you angry are? Children not in car seats, lying, people treating others badly.

4. The biggest dream you have for yourself is? To teach my children well and have them grow up to be happy adults.

5. Your favourite hobby/thing to do? Read blogs or books.

6. 2 things that make you laugh? My kids and my pets.

7. 3 of your favourite possessions are? Pictures, my home, and my chickens.

8. Your least favourite thing to do is? Clean.

9. Your best 3 qualities? I am fun to be around, I handle pressure well, and I'm a good mama (according to my oldest).

10. The achievement you are most proud of is? My 2 sons.

11. A mother you admire is? My cousin Cora, she always takes everyone in, including me, when I was younger.

12. If you could go back and change something in your life, you would change?  I would have tried to have a better relationship with my mother.

13. How have you showed love to someone else this week? I have prayed for lots of people, and I have hugged and loved on my children.  I have also started up the car for my hubby on cold mornings.

14. Something you wish you could change about yourself? (excluding physical attributes) Darn, no physical changes.  I wish that I had more motivation to do things like cleaning the house.  Maybe I should wish to be a clean freak, lol!

15. Your favourite quote?  Philippans 4:13 - I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

Alice

 I had heard about Alice from Money Saving Mom, but had never tried it, until I was able to get a $5 gift card from Swagbucks for cashing in only 12 of my swagbucks. 

I case you haven't heard about Alice, it's a website where you can buy all types of household products and shipping is always free.  They have a 6 item minimum order, except on your first order.  Your first order can only be one item, if you want.  Alice also has clip-free coupons that you can use to bring the prices down on some items.  There is a small catch, you can only use one coupon on one like item.  So, if you wanted to use a coupon on 2 same brand shampoos, you would have to pick a different scent, for it to be counted as different.

This is the order I received after using my $5 gift card.  I was able to purchase all this for only $4.80 after coupons.  The total before coupons was $7.96.  I think that was a really good deal since I bought 5 things essentially for free because I traded in my swagbucks, plus it was delivered right to my door by UPS.

Here are some of the deals they have today at Alice: Clairol Hair Color $0.90, Good Start Infant Formula for $2.02, Lipton Tea $0.59, and Brut deodorant $1.27.  The way to find the best deals is to click on Other Ways to Shop, and then Shop the Best Deals.  That will bring up the top 50 deals.

For today only Alice is offering their gift cards for up to 30% off.  That makes Alice an even better deal!  If you haven't tried Alice yet, you can sign up here.  If you have already used their service, what's the best buy you've gotten?

Sunday's Song

This is a song about being thankful and since we just celebrated Thanksgiving, I thought it would be a good song to share.

Come, Ye Thankful People, Come

1. Come, ye thankful people, come,
raise the song of harvest home;
all is safely gathered in,
ere the winter storms begin.
God our Maker doth provide
for our wants to be supplied;
come to God's own temple, come,
raise the song of harvest home.

2. All the world is God's own field,
fruit as praise to God we yield;
wheat and tares together sown
are to joy or sorrow grown;
first the blade and then the ear,
then the full corn shall appear;
Lord of harvest, grant that we
wholesome grain and pure may be.

3. For the Lord our God shall come,
and shall take the harvest home;
from the field shall in that day
all offenses purge away,
giving angels charge at last
in the fire the tares to cast;
but the fruitful ears to store
in the garner evermore.

4. Even so, Lord, quickly come,
bring thy final harvest home;
gather thou thy people in,
free from sorrow, free from sin,
there, forever purified,
in thy presence to abide;
come, with all thine angels, come,
raise the glorious harvest home.

Happy Thanksgiving!

 I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! I hope you were able to spend time with friends and loved ones.

We went to my older cousin's house today. They are more like parents to me, since my parents have passed on. It was nice being with them, they had a full house, but still welcomed us. Hunter was able to play with his cousin Josh. Mitchell was able to see his cousin A.J. who just moved back to town.

We had so much food, there wasn't enough room for it all! We had ham and chicken and dumplings, and tons of vegetables. Lots of sweets too, like pumpkin pie, cheesecake, and brownies. My "mommy" even gave me a pecan pie to take home and enough leftovers for a few days!

Today I am thankful for my husband, my children, my home, my friends, my family and I am especially thankful for Jesus. I am also thankful for all of my friends I have met through blogging!  Y'all are awesome!   I am very blessed!  (The pictures from this post are from our Homeschool Thanksgiving party.)

Wow Imports Review and Giveaway

 I was recently given the chance to review a necklace from Wow Imports.  I was really excited because I've always loved personalized things.  There is just something about having an item made especially for you!  Wow Imports is a family business that only sells fair trade and eco-friendly products.  All of the personalized jewelry is handmade.

I was able to look at all the different styles, and try them on, so to speak, with my name.  There are lots of different styles to choose from.  In the end, I chose the Brianna style.  I chose it because it's very similar to the fonts used for Walt Disney World, and y'all know how I love everything Disney!  My necklace is sterling silver with a sterling silver box chain and the value is $27.95.  Since each necklace is handmade, each cut may be different, so you'll receive a one of  a kind piece.

Wow Imports sells a variety of items including name earrings, bracelets, and rings.  They have a variety of religious pieces and other items which can be personalized also.  They sell items handmade by artisans from South Africa that make very unique items, like the one below.  I just have to show you this one, since I love chickens so much.  He's made from recycled plastic.  Isn't he the cutest?

My readers are getting a 5% discount on any purchase made using the code: southern5.

Would you like to win a piece of personalized jewelry?  Wow Imports is giving away an item valued up to $27.95 to one of my readers.

• Required First Entry- Browse the necklaces and come back and tell me which style you would like to win.

You can get extra entries for doing any of the following, please leave a separate comment for each:

• Follow me on Google Friend Connect for an extra entry.
• Follow me on Twitter & tweet this giveaway for an extra entry.
• Put my button on your sidebar for an extra entry.
• Blog about this giveaway for 2 extra entries.

Giveaway open to everyone world-wide.  Giveaway will close Wednesday night December 2nd at midnight.  Good Luck!

I was provided a necklace from Wow Imports in association with Mama Bzz in exchange for a review of their product.