Supermarket Healthy

                                                    Supermarket Healthy - by Melissa D'arabian
I really enjoyed this book! It combines keeping a budget and healthy eating in one book. She talks about how you can get healthy, organic options at your local supermarket without having to completely ruin your budget. It's jam packed with great recipes and hostess tips. She also includes tips about how to make meals go farther when you have unexpected guests, how to change ingredients around and ideas to get your kids to eat.  It's also beautifully designed, with beautiful pictures and wonderful charts.

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Love Without Limits

                                Love Without Limits: By Nick and Kanae Vujicic


 I absolutely loved this book!!! I love biographies and autobiographies of godly people and this is one that is very high on my list.This couple are a great example of what a God honoring marriage should look like. It is a must read for married couples and singles alike. They have so many wonderful things to say to everyone in every stage of life. And they are so humble about what it is that they are sharing!

It's a great book to work through together if you're newly wed, about to be married, in  a relationship or still single. I highly recommend it to everyone!


Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book for free from the publisher Harmony Books Blogging for Books program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission's 16 CFR, Part 255.   

Iran: The Coming Crisis

Well, when I requested this book I thought it was about something very different. I thought it was going to be about the persecution of the church in Iran and found out that it was more about the rapture being near due to things that are happening in Iran and the Middle East. The author's eschatology is different from my own. It was almost like reading something from the "Left Behind" series.

The author looks at all of Iran's resources and political status and sees Old Testament prophecies about the end times. It seems exhausting to be living constantly living in that kind of fear. It is really sad that Iran is in such a state, but instead of reading into the events that are happening over there, we should be praying for Iran that it's leaders will come to know God as their Savior.

The book had a lot of good information about current events. It was written well and easy to read. However, I'm just not sure that it is high on my recommendation list. Mostly because it's not my favorite genre of book.


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The New American Herbal

This encyclopedia is beautifully designed and has oodles of great information. It also includes some really yummy looking recipes. I highly recommend this book.

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Fluent Forever

     This book was absolutely amazing!! I have loved languages for as long as I could remember, even though I am not that good at them. When I saw this book was up for review, I was very excited. Little did I know how much I was going to enjoy it and learn from it.

I- Great Information:   The information was sooo good! The author walks you through the methods to learning on your own and learning them better and more efficiently then in a classroom setting. If you're already learning in a classroom don't worry you can implement these methods on your own and get more out of the class.

II- The Method is not just for Language Learning: The methods that he describes in the book are not just for language learning, you can use them for any subject. When you are reading about the methods he is describing it easy to think that it's more work then it's worth, then it all starts making sense! And then it's like how did I learn any other way!

III- I Got Inspired: All it took was reading the first few pages of the first chapter and I got excited. I started thinking that I was going to review and learn more Spanish using this method, I am going to finish learning ASL this way (implementing the class I am doing) and that I wanted to try a new language using this method from the very beginning (I chose Dutch). I will definitely keep you all updated on how it's going.

IV- The Only Bummer: The only thing about the book that made me sad is that the author is not a Christian. He swears about 10 times in the book. I highly recommend the book, but I would be selective about who I recommend it to. Parents the learning methods described in the book are excellent, and I would recommend implementing them into your homeschooling (if your a homeschooling parent) or if your child attends school or college implementing it there. However if your children are young or you would prefer they didn't read that just yet, read it yourself and tell them how to use the methods. Besides think how good you will be at it by the time you're done teaching it.

  Now I haven't described what his methods are simply because he does a way better job then I could ever do at describing it. And I think you should check out the book. Also check out his website where he has a lot of information. This book is definitely useful and I can't recommend it enough. Enjoy!



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JAF and Me

     Four years ago today, I attended my first Joni and Friends Family Retreat at Twin Rocks. I had watched a short video on Facebook about camp two weeks before camp was going to start. I thought it looked like a great oppurtunity so I signed up. Little did I know what I had signed up for .

      The first day of training was terrifying. I was homesick, was catching a cold and I didn't really know anybody. It was such a hard week. For almost the first year after camp I didn't really talk about camp, simply because I was trying to process the whole thing. 

        The May before my second year I finally decided that I really did enjoy myself and that I wanted to go back.  I didn't want to go alone this time, so I brought along all of my brothers and several friends from church. By this point I was in love with the ministry and here's why. At Joni camp I was pushed beyond myself phsycally, emotionally and spiritually. I was shown where my love for people had fallen short. I have always had a love for the disability community, but now I love them way more then I did. Some of my greatest friendships happened at camp, everyone from the other STMs to the Families to the Leadership. My life has been so blessed by Joni and Friends that is has become an important part of my life and year. If some summer in the future it didn't work out for me to attend at least one family retreat it will be a very sad year. 

       I am very happy to report that my camper from my first camp and I are very good friends now despite a rough week at camp! I was able to serve her family again last year by being her sisters STM (short term missionary). Over the last four years I have attended seven Joni and Friends Family Retreats in two states. I absolutely love it! www.joniandfriends.org

Kembucha Revolution

                                                              Kombucha Revolution
                                                                             By
                                                      Stephen Lee and Ken Koopman

    This book was beautifully designed and filled with great information about how to start brewing your own kombucha. The author of the book from Portland, OR this was a fun fact to learn because I am from Oregon also. The majority of the book is recipes for making your own kombucha, which is totally great, that's what the book is for, but I would have liked more about the art of brewing kombucha, why are certain things necessary  and that sort of thing. Overall it was a really good book.


Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book for free from the publisher Harmony Books Blogging for Books program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission's 16 CFR, Part 255.