It’s Time For A Cyber Friend’s Blog Party!

One way bloggers connect is by hosting or attending blog parties. They are fun and you meet folks from all over the planet!

If you don’t know what a Blog Party is, give me a moment I will try to explain it to you. Basically it’s a fun way to meet other bloggers, visit lots of blog sites, and win cool prizes. This Blog Party is hosted by 5 Minutes for Mom. They have hundreds of prizes to give away (including two really cool ones from NanaHood)

A little bit about me for my first time visitors….

Welcome to the Hood….NanaHood that is. I think of it as the second half of the motherhood journey. I have been married to Bill for almost 31 years and we have 5 children (including a set of identical twin boys who are seniors in high school this year) and one precious GRANDdaughter, Abby.

We live in southern Kentucky and our latest adventure includes 7,600 blueberry bushes…that’s right. Oh my aching back!

I’m a blueberry, blogging nana who loves God, her family, writing, and her University of Kentucky Wildcats!  Go Cats!

First Prize from  The Grandparent Gift Co. Inc- The Circle of Love

About the Circle of Love
Teri Harrison wrote the poem Circle of Love after attending her grandmother’s 95th birthday party- so many generations of women in the family together celebrating life. From the newest great-great grandbaby to her grandmother who had seen it all- their hands side-by-side were an illustration of life. As women are hands SPEAK our hearts… they hold and welcome each new baby, loving and caring. They also hold the hands, comforting and tending to the needs of those sick and ailing, soon to leave the circle of love.

Our hands in a circle, life symbols……

both perfect and profound.

The women of our family, young and old in love are bound.

We are born into our circle…..sweet, delicate dimpled hands.

Loved and held by the generations,

the miracle of life we understand.

As we move throughout our lives, our hands speak our heart.

Touching, loving, comforting……….

They are God’s work of art.

Our hands entwine for games & prayers.

They clap with joy and pride.

They tremble with anger and sorrow,

soothe broken hearts and babies cries.

Our hands shape, guide and teach, nourish, support and share.

At times swift, deft, and purposeful……..

at times imperfect and impaired.

We are called home from our circle……..

a life story engraved on our hands.

Loved and held by the generations,

the beauty of life we understand.

Together we share our journeys,

the generations both now and then.

The women of our family

are a circle of love that never ends.©

This prize includes:
*White paper linen keepsake box with magnetic closure, for letters, photographs or special mementos.

The Grandparents’ Memory Book- “did you really walk 5 miles to school?” Hardcover 8×8. Author: Teri Harrison. Over 100 questions posed to grandparents by real grandchildren. Fill it out and make sure the memories and recorded and treasured.

The Circle of Love 8×10 Frame- “The Circle of Love” poem and space for a special photograph of the women in your circle.

The Circle of Love Charms- 6 lead-free pewter charms. Made in the USA. Perfect for a necklace, charm bracelet or key ring. A reminder of the power and love in your circle of love. Give one each to the women in your circle.

Retail Value: $85.00

And the second prize is a game from Grandcamp

GrandCamp Adventures, the creator of entertaining and educational storybooks, music, games and activities created especially for grandparents and grandkids, is bringing the fun and mystery of the secret handshake to the grandparent-grandkid relationship with the launch of its “Shake It Up!” game. The new game ties directly to the company’s “Here We Go!” adventure storybook in which a pair of intrepid Grandparents and their three Grandkids must demonstrate a secret handshake to get past the palace guard of an English castle.

Now available at GrandCamp.com and in high quality specialty retail stores around the country, “Shake It Up!” contains 24 cards that picture real handshake moves and gestures. The cards are the basis for hours of fun with three different activities.

(1)  Grandparents and Grandkids can combine handshake pictures to create their own special secret handshake.

(2)  The reverse side of the cards can be arranged as a large floor puzzle featuring a scene from the GrandCamp Adventures “Here We Go!” storybook.

(3)  The cards are also used to play a memory game as provided for in the instructions. Players can also continue on by creating their own games with the cards for even more hours of fun together.

“What kid doesn’t love doing a ‘high five’?” said Ron Bachman, who, along with his wife Beverly, was among the early testers of the Shake It Up! game. “Our Grandkids already loved the storybook and so playing a game that put us all into the story is a natural. We now have our own secret handshake that we use whenever we get together with the Grandkids.”

With the introduction of the Shake It Up! game, the “Here We Go!” adventure now includes the storybook, a music CD by the same name, and the handshake game.  According to company CEO Patricia Babuka, the company will release another game for this adventure within the next 45 days and will introduce its “Here We Go!” plush animals this summer.

“Much like the movie industry rolls out a film and then surrounds it with games, music, and other merchandise, we start with a storybook for Grandparents and Grandkids and then link to it with our own custom music, games, crafts, and plush animals.  Each of our storybooks represents a new ‘adventure,’ or line of products, where everything ties to that particular story,” Babuka said.

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