Classics Book Club
This is a bookclub I'm starting for friends/family and Relief Society sisters to attend.
All book club meetings will be held monthly on a Tuesday at my (Amy Fox's) house.
I am starting this book club and planning on reading these books to my daughters, most are targeted to young adult age but they are also enjoyable for adults. Feel free to bring your teenagers who have read the book if you like. Otherwise, this is an adult only book club (nursing babies welcome).
I purchased my books at Barnes & Noble, Borders and Amazon.com. All books that are not Newbery winners are Hardcovers from the "Illustrated Junior Library" collection. You can buy them on Amazon or at Borders Bookstore. I'm not sure where else.
February 16th 7-8pm - Number the Stars by Lois Lowry-Newbery Medal Winner
March 23rd 7-8pm-Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
April 20th 7-8pm- Princess Academy by Shannon Hale-Newbery Medal Winner
May 18th 7-8pm-The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
June 15th 7-8pm-Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine-Newbery Medal Winner
July 20th 7-8pm- Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright-Newbery Medal Winner
August 17th 7-8pm- Andersen's Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
September 21st 7-8pm- The Giver by Lois Lowry-Newbery Medal Winner
October 19th 7-8pm-Alice in Wonderland Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
November 16th 7-8pm- Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse-Newbery Medal Winner
December-Enjoy your Christmas!
You are welcome to bring an appetizer, dessert or snack to share, but you don't need to so feel free to come with only your book.
I would love some volunteers to help lead each discussion. Otherwise, I will lead each time.
Friends 1/10
I usually use my blog as a stand in scrapbook, but I'm going to part with the norm and put some of my thoughts on here today.
It's been two months and a couple of days since we've moved. There are so many good things about the move: My husband is loving his work. My kids adore their school. We live by grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. The kids get to go to grandma's story time once a month. It's pretty here. It has hills surrounding the valley covered in evergreen trees (they call them mountains around here). We're living in a charming little house. It's what we feel like we're supposed to do right now.
But somehow, despite all the goodness, I'm feeling homesick.
We had lived in the Portland area longer than anyplace else in our marriage. We lived in three wards in the same stake. It was long enough to feel really settled. Now I'm working through feelings of being uprooted and lots of change. I'm missing the weather, the landscape, the community. I treasure our time there. Definitely the hardest part of leaving was leaving behind all of our friends and loved ones. We left many kindred spirits. I've especially been grateful for all the Christmas cards we received this season. I've been feeling sentimental and I have been caught a few times bursting into tears as I read through them. I'm getting sappier the older I get. :)
Anyway, I just wanted to express my love and gratitude for all the love we felt, all of the service we received and all of the friends we hold dear. We learned so much from them and grew a great deal in our time there.
I know that we are going to make a home here and have memories and friends soon enough, but for now I'm a little melancholy.
I learned a cute little song when I was a brownie in girl scouts as a kid that says it all, "Make new friends, but keep the old, one is silver and the other gold.
It's been two months and a couple of days since we've moved. There are so many good things about the move: My husband is loving his work. My kids adore their school. We live by grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. The kids get to go to grandma's story time once a month. It's pretty here. It has hills surrounding the valley covered in evergreen trees (they call them mountains around here). We're living in a charming little house. It's what we feel like we're supposed to do right now.
But somehow, despite all the goodness, I'm feeling homesick.
We had lived in the Portland area longer than anyplace else in our marriage. We lived in three wards in the same stake. It was long enough to feel really settled. Now I'm working through feelings of being uprooted and lots of change. I'm missing the weather, the landscape, the community. I treasure our time there. Definitely the hardest part of leaving was leaving behind all of our friends and loved ones. We left many kindred spirits. I've especially been grateful for all the Christmas cards we received this season. I've been feeling sentimental and I have been caught a few times bursting into tears as I read through them. I'm getting sappier the older I get. :)
Anyway, I just wanted to express my love and gratitude for all the love we felt, all of the service we received and all of the friends we hold dear. We learned so much from them and grew a great deal in our time there.
I know that we are going to make a home here and have memories and friends soon enough, but for now I'm a little melancholy.
I learned a cute little song when I was a brownie in girl scouts as a kid that says it all, "Make new friends, but keep the old, one is silver and the other gold.
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