Only Nuns Change Habits Overnight

I've recently joined a wonderful thing.

No, not the convent. Heehee!

Join in with me on this blog tour review and giveaway! I've recently read a book that encourages change within yourself and gives great suggestions on how to accomplish it. The authors writing style is one that brings you in with ease, with her frankness about herself and a mix of both humor and seriousness.

Book: Only Nuns Change Habits Overnight by Karen Linamen.
Summary: Every woman longs for change in some area of her life. Unfortunately, fear, fatigue, adversity, heartbreak, past failures, and even the choices of other people get in the way and make lasting change seem out of reach. Having been there herself, Karen Linamen knows exactly how to take readers from where they are to where they want to be.
In Only Nuns Change Habits Overnight, she examines 52 powerful actions readers can apply to any change they long to embrace. Her insights apply to career, finances, personal health and fitness, relationships, faith—in fact, every facet of a woman’s life.
Blending laugh-out-loud humor and sage advice, Linamen shows readers the link between dissatisfaction and transformation, how to remodel habits, the little-known truth about procrastination, how to generate the energy they need to pursue the life they desire, how to benefit from options and resources they never dreamed they had, and much, much more!

Author Bio:
Karen Linamen is a popular speaker and the celebrated author of ten books for women, including Due to Rising Energy Costs the Light at the End of the Tunnel Has Been Turned Off and Just Hand Over the Chocolate and No One Will Get Hurt. She has been featured on more than one hundred radio programs, including FamilyLife Today. Publishers Weekly describes her as “funny, forthright and unforgettable.” Linamen lives with her family in Colorado Springs , Colorado . Visit her website at http://www.karenlinamen.com/.

You may go here to purchase the book! Also, I have a copy to giveaway, so please comment on the following to this post: What a perfect time to state something you would like to change about yourself this New Year. I will pick a random number Wednesday evening, so let's say Wednesday at noon the giveaway closes. :)

a photo summary

what my hubby put in my stocking...mind you, he is a dietitian. i think he loves me. by the way, caramellos and 3 musketeers are my favorite candybars. happy happy happy little boy. at uncle bill's house christmas day. i accidentally shrunk that little outfit. all wool, put it in the dryer. oops.

will david under one of the trees at uncle bill's. aunt lisa is such a talented decorator.


similar photo to one of my niece awhile back...
heehee....our 2008 family photo, minus the babe, who was too short for this timed photo. we were doing the christmas story with mask, if you couldn't tell. it was quite the production. my niece had the angel's words all memorized. oh and i didn't have a mask because i was taking pictures....
i'd love to chat more about christmas time and stuff, but time is short around here. much to do. very little free time to type. i love to browse though. one handed stuff like that. lol.

i hope and pray everyone's christmas was very blessed, very much like ours.

Just for laughs

I am being brave. LOL! Here is a video of Ella reading to Will David yesterday. She had actually been reading to him for awhile, while I was busy making a mess in the kitchen, because of baking and decorating cookies. He loved it, you can tell. So, here I am, makeup-less, trying to get the web cam in the right direction, struggling with that, and then a baby, who is trying to fall asleep and well, at one moment, is just being a baby LOL. It's funny. It's cute. Enjoy.



Okay, here's one of Buddy singing Jingle Bells. Mind you, I have a great old morning voice here and am very VERY tired. LOL. But, Buddy's cute at least! And the baby!

girl scout cookies, anyone???

let the selling begin!!! hehe so glad ella is a girl scout- great excuse to buy lots of cookies!! hoping to post better tomorrow..pics?

Half the cake is GONE

My grandma, dear, precious grandma, baked me a cake yesterday for my birthday today! And, it was one of my favorite flavors, too...Spice cake. The kids sang to me, Rich too, and then we all blew out the candles- a little early, but we wanted to eat that cake since it was here already. Yummy!

My birthday present, along with Christmas I suppose, is this lovely new laptop I am typing on. I think, truthfully, it is Rich's gift too. LOL. He has been using it lots as well.

The only other birthday plan we have is for Thursday. A friend of mine will watch Philip, since Ella is in school, and then we and the baby will go to the Outback. Rich was given a gift card there from coworkers. Perfect time to use it. I am craving steak so so so very badly.

Will David is doing wonderfully well, and he does not have days and nights mixed up really, but he is not sleeping the best anyways. Hopefully soon that will change.

Ella went to a Girl Scout meeting last night, as a neighbor who takes her girls came and picked her up for us. They went to the Ginger Jar, to paint a ceramic peice.

Philip had his first visit to the dentist yesterday....oh, how the tears fell when we got to the office. I had to sit on the chair myself, and hold him, so he would actually SIT there and open his mouth. Poor little guy. But, he made it through and did end up learning that there is nothing to fear (at least when you are little and your teeth are great!).

So, this is all I shall blog for now. I have to get a certain little girl ready for school!