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Showing posts with label review. Show all posts

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Adventures in Odyssey: A Review


The residents of Odyssey are at it again. Focus on the Family has released the newest installment from Adventures in Odyssey, Cause & Effect, and this time there are mysteries to be solved, and as always Biblical lessons to learn.

The town clock is not working, someone is receiving flowers and strange notes, there is a phantom in the school auditorium, and malt milk balls are missing. While the Odyssey residents are solving mysteries, they are also celebrating Thanksgiving, learning about responsibility, and celebrating the true meaning of Christmas.

First, let me say, we LOVE Adventures in Odyssey. I used to listen to the radio drama when I was a kid. Before our children were old enough to realize what was on, we listened to Adventures in Odyssey on the radio, then streamed from their website, and now, on CD's. Before every vacation, we will purchase one, or two, CD's sets. Four to five hours of listening, per CD set, equals quiet car trips.

It also equals quiet moments in the house. The week these CD's arrived Hubby was on a business trip. This new set of stories came at the right time, since my children are drawn to the CD player like magnets when we play one of these stories.

The kids love these new stories. When I asked what they thought, they all yelled out, "we love them". I love the lessons, one of our household mantra's is "cause and effect", oh how I want to hug the writers and producers at Focus on the Family, what better way to make a point to our children, then for them to hear it from one of their favorite story tellers.

***Tyndale House Publishers provided me with a complimentary copy of this CD, in exchange for a review.

Thursday, January 1, 2009

A Look Back

If you blog, take a moment to look back on your 2008 postings. This idea came from Kelli at There Is No Place Like Home. You post the first sentence, and any cool pictures, from the first blog posting of each month. Be sure to visit Kelli's site and view her awesome pictures from each month. And, don't forget to join the fun, I would love to read your blog year in review.

January
Posted January 2nd on my first blog over at Kaboose:

Musings for the New Year
Welcome to 2008, what will the New Year hold for my family and me?

February

Snow Day
Once again I have managed to post nothing more then ramblings, and since it is winter it is ramblings about my children being home due to a snow day.

March

There is no postings in the month of March. At the end of February Kaboose gave me, and 50+ other independent consultants, our pink slips and I spent the month a little shocked, deciding whether or not to continue blogging, and if yes waiting for my contract with Kaboose to run out so I could blog elsewhere without any conflicts of interest.

April
Back in the blogging world, and now found on Blogspot.

Welcome ... and hope you enjoy the ride
Here I am, writing on my own blog. Yes, I know some of you are saying "and ... so ... we've been blogging for years, where have you been?"

May

If You See My Brain Please Tell It to Return Home
This morning I was tearing apart the house looking for three votive candle holders lent to me by a lady at our church. (They were somewhere safe and sound. To find out where finish reading the post.)

June

Where Does It Go?
For the month of June my husband is traveling for two weeks, we are on vacation for one week, leaving one week when the whole family is together and at home, where I need to plan meals. (I go on to explain that it is June 2nd, and I've already spent two-thirds of our food budget for the month.)

July

Nature or Nurture
Yesterday ED comes into the kitchen wearing his clip-on neck tie, paired with the paper-mache splattered shorts and polo he had worn all day. We were expecting friends for dinner and he wanted to "dress-up" for them.

August

Home at Last
We arrived home today around 5:30pm, after a week at family camp in Canada.

September

Huh?
Today I was canning tomato sauce when my husband asked when I would put the jars in the water as it was warming or wait until it was boiling. (one of those postings where I explain the difference between my engineer Hubby and me, who majored in history in college. Needless to say we talk two different languages.)

October

Dueling It Out In The Aisles
Have you recently walked into a Walmart or Target? Halloween and Christmas decorations are fighting over display space.

November
It was my 100th posting. However, the fact that a historic election was only 2 days away there was only one thing I could write about.

100th Posting: What Else Can I Say, But ...
Can you believe it? My 100th posting!



December

It's All in the Family
So here it is, the list of family blogs.



Happy New Year