Children’s Book Review and Business Cards Giveaway

Posted by teresak on May 10, 2012 1 Comment

Pipper’s Secret Ingredient is a delightful book of dog adventures for children 8 years old or older. The artwork is amazing and the storyline easy to follow as well as fast paced.

You can read more about the book here: www.snoutzadventures.com

Pipper’s adventures lead her and her friends all around the globe. What a fun way to learn about geography, cooking, nutrition, history and math!

 

 

The teacher in me loved the book because of all the learning activities suggested. You can read about them here:

http://snoutzadventures.com/activity-guide/

And every great book should have a villain, right? This book has two!

Bogus

and

Bumblels

My granddaughter, Abby, is not yet 7 but she loved the pictures and wanted me to read her segments. I plan on keeping the book and reading it to her. We’re looking forward to doing all the activities!

Don’t forget the Business Card giveaway tomorrow!


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Teacher Appreciation Week + Mother’s Day = My Mom

Posted by teresak on May 8, 2012 3 Comments

Shirley DeMumbrum Bell was my first and most important teacher. She was also my mom and my best friend.

Today’s post is dedicated to teachers and to her.

My Mom

She was only sixteen years old when she eloped.

I was born a year later.

She was a teacher at the local elementary school for 17 years.

Her favorite color was blue.

She loved to read and travel.

She was only 50 when she was diagnosed with colon cancer.

Her faith never waivered.

She died in July of 1990 at the age of 51 and I miss her still.

Every Mother’s Day there’s an ache in my heart.

This week is Teacher Appreciation week and this weekend is Mother’s Day.

Hug your mom and thank a teacher.

And if your mom happens to be a teacher, well then you have two reasons to appreciate her this week!

Shirley DeMumbrum Bell

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Honoring Mothers

Posted by teresak on May 8, 2012 Leave a Comment

A few months back I did a post about “Motherhood-What My Daughter Says I Got Right.” You can read it by clicking here

http://nanahood.com/things-my-daughter-says-i-did-right

One reader made a comment that I want to share with you. Tracey said in part, “As I read your daughters thoughts about her childhood I was struck by the fact that all these things didn’t cost anything , no amount of money can make you a better mom, no great toys, no wonderful trips, no fancy schools. Showing your babies that you love them and want to spend time with them is all that God asks of us and all that our babies need.”

Since Mother’s Day  is this weekend I wanted to remind all the moms out there that Tracey is right. Life is not about STUFF! It’s about LOVE and sharing it.

I told you that I recently spoke to an adorable group of Girl Scouts about moms and daughters. I want to share a small part of that speech with you in honor of Mother’s Day.

Job Advertisement for Moms

Wanted- Combination cook, nurse, social worker, teacher, psychiatrist, maid, chauffeur, and personal secretary. Must work and be on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week. You will be required to attend thousands of little league ballgames where you will be forced to sit next to neurotic, loudmouthed parents who think their son or daughter is the next Babe Ruth or Michael Jordan. You will be required to host sleepovers where you will not be allowed to sleep. More than likely someone will throw up on you at least once. You will attend hundreds of boring PTO meetings and serve on committees where you have to do most of the work yourself. By the way, this job lasts forever. Anyone with a weak stomach or who doesn’t have nerves of steel, need not apply.

Most of us would pass that job right up wouldn’t we? We’d probably read it and say “Who in their right mind would be stupid enough to apply for that job?

But then, maybe we’d glance at it again and this time we’d read the fine print where the salary and benefits are listed:

Successful applicant will be paid with sloppy kisses and sticky hugs, bouquets of dandelions and flowers handpicked from her own flower garden. You will be allowed to hear night time prayers and thousands of “God blesses” Your refrigerator will always be decorated with art work and pictures. And someday, years down the road your child will realize what you have done for them and say “thank you” and reward you with grandchildren.


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Another Great NanaHood Contest

Posted by teresak on May 7, 2012 6 Comments

Here’s what you can win!

 

250pcs Customizable Die-cut Business Cards for one winner

2×3.5″ Rounded Corners, 2×2″ Rounded Corners, 1.75×3.5″ Rounded Corners,

2×3.5″ Leaf, 2×3.5 Rounded one corner, 2×3.5″ Half Circle Side, 2×3.5″ Oval, 2.5″ Circle

14pt Cardstock Gloss / Matte / High Gloss (UV), or 13pt Cardstock Uncoated

6 Business Days Turnaround time

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Pistol Packing Nanas

Posted by teresak on May 7, 2012 Leave a Comment

My grandparents lived on a farm and never bothered to lock their doors at night. Unfortunately those days are gone. Break-ins and robberies happen every where.

Not long ago a lady and her husband were at a nearby mall shopping. Her husband was waiting for her in the car. When he saw his wife coming he got out and opened the trunk of the car for her. In the meantime a car pulled up behind the lady and a man jumped out and grabbed her purse, which she was wearing on her shoulder. She didn’t let go and he dragged her several feet across the parking lot and broke her shoulder. He did get the purse, jumped in the car with another man, and they disappeared. The victims were able to get the license plate number and the robbers were arrested, but I don’t imagine that shopping at the mall will ever be much fun for this lady again.

This weekend I read about a friend of mine who was out of town on business and her purse was stolen. Within one hour she had over $3000 worth of charges on her credit card. My friend wasn’t hurt and I am so thankful, but what an inconvenience!

One of the best suggestions I found about purses said in part; If you’re carrying a purse, make sure it has short straps so that it rides right under your arm. And if you don’t have a purse with a short strap, swing your purse over your body with the bag part of the purse in front of you. It’s much harder for a thief to steal your purse from the front than the side or back. Also don’t carry your wallet in your back pocket or in the side pocket of a jacket. Carry it in your front pocket, or in an interior jacket pocket. But if you’re carrying it inside your jacket, be sure to keep your jacket buttoned or zipped.

Nanas that Pack

I hate guns. They scare me silly, but I understand why some think it’s wise to know how to shoot them. I have a friend who is a Realtor.  We were going somewhere the other day and I had to wait for her while she went to renew her license to carry a concealed weapon. This pistol packing nana keeps the gun with her at all times and I don’t blame her.

A Georgia nana recently found herself in the middle of an attempted robbery.

Lulu Campbell just dropped off her grandson at her daughter’s house early Saturday morning when someone demanded money outside her car, threatening to shoot her.

The robber pointed a gun at her car window and demanded she open her window. Lulu replied, ‘Baby, you’re going to kill me anyway, so I don’t have to open it!’”

The man fired at her but missed. The 57-year-old fired back, striking him in the chest. Her truck sustained eight bullet holes in the hood, one in the grill. Both front side windows were destroyed. The second man fled after she shot at him.

All I can say about that is “Don’t mess with Lulu!”

Ladies (and gentlemen) be safe! It’s a dangerous world out there!

Some of the best suggestions about safety I found were at the following website:

http://www.fodors.com/news/story_3636.html

And if you are a woman traveling alone, then be sure and check out these safety tips.

http://www.smartertravel.com/travel-advice/ten-tips-for-women-traveling-alone.html?id=1268589

And if your travels take you to the beach don’t forget to take a beach bag!

They have some really cool ones at:

http://www.simply-bags.com/beach-bags.html

 

 

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Mother’s Day Winner and Memories with Mom

Posted by teresak on May 5, 2012 Leave a Comment

We have a winner in our Mother’s Day Celebration contest! Congratulations to Karalee Hayes! Many thanks to all who participated. I have another contest that will start Monday, so if you didn’t win this one, maybe next time!

Karalee will be ordering up to $40 worth of merchandise from the NanaHood Store. Please visit it to see if there is something there you might like to give the nana in your life as a Mother’s Day gift. Click here- http://www.zazzle.com/nanahood

This week I had the pleasure of speaking to a charming troop of Girl Scouts. The topic was Mothers and Daughters and after I was finished the girls each read something they had written about their moms. I asked them if I could borrow their essays to share with you and they said yes.

Because Mother’s Day is right around the corner I’m going to be posting lots of things to honor mom. If you have a letter, a quote, a thought, a photo, or anything else you’d like to see on NanaHood about Mother’s Day, please send it to me at teresa@nanahood.com

From the Girl Scout Troop….

Hope Anderson, Age 7 writes about her mom, Brandy

I love my mom because she does a lot of stuff with me. She goes fishing with me and she is a nice mom. My mom is speacil to me.

Alayna Rea  Age 13 writes about her mom Susan

Last summer my sister and I went to camp and my mom came as a chaperone. At the camp we had two classes. Mine were cooking and art studies. My mom was a helper in art studio and she took pictures of my friends and me. We made a lot of cool things, such as paper mache sculptures and homemade chalk.

Madison Gray Age 13 about her mom, Rhonda

Me and my mom and my friend went to see the play Hairspray. We laughed at the whole play and had a good time together. After the play we were walking to the car and we saw a puppy behind the bushes. I said, “Oh, what a cute puppy.” Then it started barking at us. We were yelling and told mom to hurry and unlock the car door. I scraped mmy knee and my friend hit her head. It hurt but it was a funny pain. I had a good time with my mom!

Veronica Age 7 and mom Melissa

My favorite memory with mom is when she helped me golf. We went golfing at the Smoky Moungtains. It was fun. Me and mom had fun golfing.

Just in case you don’t remember how Mother’s Day got started….

In the United States, Mother’s Day was first suggested in 1872 by Julia Ward Howe  who was famous for writing the words to the “Battle Hymn of the Republic”). But it was a woman who was never a mother herself who led the campaign for national recognition of Mother’s Day.

Anna Jarvis held a ceremony in 1907 in Grafton, West Virginia, to honor her mother, who had died two years earlier. Jarvis’ mother had tried to establish Mother’s Friendship Days as a way of dealing with the aftermath of the Civil War. Anna Jarvis began a campaign to create a national holiday honoring mothers. She and her supporters wrote to ministers, businessmen and politicians, and they were successful in their efforts.

In 1910, West Virginia became the first state to recognize the new holiday, and the nation followed in 1914 when President Wilson declared the second Sunday in May to be Mother’s Day. Jarvis used white carnations as a symbol for mothers, because carnations represented sweetness, purity and the endurance of mother love. (Today, white carnations represent a mother who has died, while red carnations represent a living mother.)

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