Giveaway - Chris Tomlin's Adore CD!

It's not even Thanksgiving yet, but I've got the Christmas happies, and I'm ready to do a fun GIVEAWAY to get you in the holly jolly mood, too!
Have you heard of Chris Tomlin? 
No?

Ha! Yeah, right! I'm pretty sure most of you know of this American contemporary Christian music artist (if not, you NEED this CD!). He's also a worship leader and songwriter, and he's sold nearly 30 million records! He's been nominated for 32 Dove Awards and won 19! Pretty awesome!
His new CD, Chris Tomlin's Adore: Christmas Songs of Worship, is just amazing (click here to visit the website)! I'm listening to it right now, and it's just so worshipful and beautiful, y'all. You have to hear it! This album features guest performances by Lauren Daigle (love her!), Crowder, and more. It has some classic Christmas songs mixed with some original ones. Silent Night featuring Kristyn Getty is sooooooo good! Take a look:

Songs:

1. He Shall Reign Forevermore

2. Adore

3. Midnight Clear (Love Song)

4. Noel featuring Lauren Daigle 

5. Hymn Of Joy 

6. Silent Night featuring Kristyn Getty 

7. What Child Is This? featuring Sons & Daughters 

8. It's Christmas

9. A King Like This

10. Bethlehem

11. A Christmas Alleluia featuring Lauren Daigle & Leslie Jordan of All Sons & Daughters 

Can't wait for the giveaway and must have it NOW? I hear ya, friend; it really is that good! Click here to purchase on iTunes.

Would you like to win a free copy of Chris Tomlin's new Christmas CD? Of course, right?! Here ya go, friend! (I did put a little plug in the entries for my book biz. I'll be having lots of Christmas giveaways soon over there, and I don't want you to miss out!) The winner will be announced the following day and will have 48 hours to respond to claim this awesome CD. Enter below!
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"Disclosure (in accordance with the FTC’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising”): Many thanks to Propeller Consulting, LLC for providing this prize for the giveaway. Choice of winners and opinions are 100% my own and NOT influenced by monetary compensation. I did receive a sample of the product in exchange for this review and post.

 Only one entrant per mailing address, per giveaway. If you have won a prize from our sponsor Propeller / FlyBy Promotions in the last 30 days, you are not eligible to win. If you have won the same prize on another blog, you are not eligible to win it again. Winner is subject to eligibility verification.”

Thanks for stopping by, friend!
I can't wait to hear your favorite Christmas traditions!

Buck Denver asks... Why Do We Call it Christmas Review + Giveaway!

We love Buck Denver and the What's In the Bible series by VeggieTales creator Phil Vischer! My kids like VeggieTales in general, but I prefer the Bible series. I have my own opinion on VeggieTales, which you can read more about by clicking here.
I was sooo excited to get my hands on a copy of this Christmas DVD in exchange for my honest opinion! Buck Denver is having a Christmas party, and all of his friends are invited. They run into some delays along the way, and while they're waiting, everyone takes part in explaining some of the most popular traditions of Christmas.

Saving Christmas - Giveaway + Review!

When I was asked to pre-screen this movie in exchange for my honest review, I was SOOO excited! I love all Kirk Cameron's projects (The Way of the Master is such an incredible evangelistic tool! Wow!), so I had high expectations for his new movie, Saving Christmas.

I was NOT disappointed! 

Dolphin Tale 2 Curriculum Review + Giveaway!

When I was offered a chance to review the new free companion curriculum for Dolphin Tale 2, I was SOOO excited! First, because we needed something. Something new and exciting.
Warning: slight tangent ahead...

Giveaway #10 - Homeschool In The Woods Timeline Trio Bundle!

I can't believe we're at the end of the Merry Christmas Giveaway Event! Thank you so much for stopping by this month; I hope you've had fun!
This is the 'big finish,' my friends! I'm sooo excited about today's prize! Eeekkkk!

Giveaway #9 - 2 Classical Conversations Books

When I first started thinking about this giveaway and my favorite things, this book was the first resource that came to my mind:

If there were only ONE book that I could recommend to parents who are either thinking about Classical Conversations or who are new to CC, it would be Classical Christian Education Made Approachable.

I have loaned out my copy of CCEMA sooo often! It's a short, to-the-point explanation of the Classical Christian method of home education and Classical Conversations. I LOVE it and recommend it all the time! Please click here to read some great quotes from this book (really, go check it out; the quotes will get you so pumped about Classical Christian education!).
Classical Conversations was kind enough to donate TWO copies of this amazing little book as giveaway prizes! Enter below and I'll announce two winners on Saturday. This giveaway is open to U.S. residents only. 
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Giveaway #8 - Wisdom and Righteousness Lapbook

I can't believe we're up to Giveaway #8 already! Wow; this month has flown by! There will be two more giveaways after this, with the winner of the 'big finish' announced on Christmas Eve. How exciting! 
Now, on to today's giveaway!
Karen at Wisdom and Righteousness is generously offering one blessed reader a copy of her My Memory Work lapbook for Cycle 2 (a $29.95 value)!

From her website:
As you can see, these lapbooks are more than just blank templates with lines and pictures!  They help the student interact with the information – labeling parts, sorting objects, identifying terms all in an easy-to-use, straightforward format!   In just minutes a day, your student can have a treasured keepsake that will be used long after the cycle has ended, and help to ensure your student doesn't lose what they worked so hard to remember!  These fantastic resources are jam-packed with creative templates! Just cut, fold, paste and go!
And I totally agree! Karen has put together a fabulous year-long project with all of Classical Conversation's memory work. And if you've never lapbooked, don't let that stop you from entering this giveaway. Karen has a whole page of links to video tutorials that she's put together to help you in your lapbooking journey.
Not into file folders? No worries! The Cycle 2 book comes with the binder option, which, of course is what I used because I have a teensy-weensy obsession with binders:

I had a chance to interview Karen earlier this year with a similar giveaway. Please click here to read that post and review (tons of pictures of the lapbook), then come back and enter this awesome giveaway!
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Giveaway #7 - $25 to A Journey Through Learning!

Some of the recent giveaways have been Classical Conversations-related, but this one is for EVERYONE so please keep reading!
If you know about lapbooking, chances are that you already know about A Journey Through Learning. 

Giveaway #6 - Memory Work System Cards

I'm sure you've seen Homeschool Story's Memory Work System Cards by now. They've been all over the place lately, and for good reason - they're awesome!

Giveaway #5 - SQUILT

Today's giveaway is one of my new favorite things because it helps me to be intentional about learning and teaching Classical music to my girls.
Mary at Homegrown Learners is giving away SQUILT Volume 2: Classical Era to one blessed reader! 

Giveaway #4 - Chess is Child's Play

Are you all rested-up from the weekend and ready to resume My Favorite Things?! Me, too!
If you're looking to teach your child chess but have no clue how to do it, then Giveaway #4 is for you!

My family LOVES Chess is Child's Play, and Laura Sherman's teaching techniques are working for us! Mary is learning to play, I'm not stressing (the book tells you what to say), and we're having a great time together!

Please click here to read my full review (with pictures!) of this awesome book.

Laura Sherman is generously giving away one copy of her book to the winner. This giveaway is open to U.S. residents only. Ready to enter?! Go for it!

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Giveaway #3 - Classical Composers Monthly

Classical Composers Monthly really is one of my favorite things! I'm so excited that creator Erica Johns, a fellow CC mama, has joined the Merry Christmas giveaway event!

Click here to see how we use CCM in our homeschooling. Our Fine Arts Fridays (mentioned in that link) have been a little lax lately, but we're beginning to pick it back up. I've started using Homegrown Learner's SQUILT program, too, and that goes SO well with Classical Composers Monthly! I'll explain more of how I use them together when the SQUILT giveaway goes live later this month. So, if you already have SQUILT and think CCM would be overkill, let me tell you, it's totally not. 
Erica is offering one collection, ANY collection, free to the winner! Here are your choices, and be sure to leave a comment letting me know which one you'd like. 
Collection 1 Franz Peter Schubert, Antonio Vivaldi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Joseph Haydn, Johann Sebastian Bach, Peter Tchaikovsky, Carl Maria von Weber, Felix Mendelssohn, Ludwig van Beethoven, Bela Bartok, Paul Hindemith, Frederic Chopin, Johannes Brahms
Collection 2 Igor Stravinsky, Darius Milhaud, Edvard Grieg, Franz Liszt, Gustav Holst, Camille Saint-Saens, Dmitri Shostakovich, Johann Strauss II, Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, Antonin Dvorak, Gabriel Faure, Sergei Prokofiev
Collection 3 (Composers and Artists)

Composers:  Debussy, Bach, Verdi, Rossini, Puccini

Artists:  Renoir, Ruisdael, de Hooch, Seurat

Click here for the Claude Monet freebie!

Renaissance Artists Collection Bellini, Bosch, Botticelli, Donatello, Durer, Masaccio, Mantegna, Michelangelo, Tintoretto, Titian, van Eyck
Great Artists, Collection 1 Cezanne, Da Vinci, Dali, Degas, Delacroix, El Greco, Gauguin, Manet, Matisse, Picasso, Raphael, Rembrandt, Van Gogh
Fine Arts Pages Collection 1 Mona Lisa (da Vinci), Starry Night (van Gogh), A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (Seurat), The Scream (Munch), Portrait of Dora Maar (Picasso), Supper at Emmaus (Caravaggio), Apple and Oranges (Cezanne), The Great Wave (Hokusai), The Son of Man (Magritte), Surprised! (Rousseau), Yellow-Red-Blue (Kandinsky), The Maids of Honor (Velazquez), Girl with a Pearl Earring (Vermeer), The Kiss (Klimt), Hunter in the Snow (Brueghel), The Fighting Temeraire (Turner), Dance at the Moulin de la Galette (Renoir), The Water Lily Pond (Monet), Self Portrait (Rembrandt), The Arnolfini Portrait (Van Eyck), Number 6 (Pollock), A Bar at the Floies-Bergere (Manet), Dancers in Blue (Degas), Nafea Faaipoipo (Gauguin), Ophelia (Millais)
Fine Arts Pages Collection 2 Narcissus (Caravaggio), A Young Girl Reading (Fragonard), The Veiled Woman (Raphael), The Persistence of Memory (Dali), Bedroom in Arles (van Gogh), Girl With a Watering Can (Renoir), The Jockey (Toulouse-Lautrec), Succession (Kandinsky), Electric Prisms (Delaunay), An Orchard in Spring (Monet), The Hunt (Monet), Sorrows of the King (Matisse), One of the Family (Cotman), The Owl and the Pussycat (Blake), Children’s Games (Bruegel), Thanksgiving (Lee), The Soul of the Rose (Waterhouse), The Bitter Drink (Brouwer), Woman Meditating (von Jawlensky), The Rainbow Landscape (Rubens), Census at Bethlehem (Bruegel), Polperro II (Kokoschka), Field Under Thunderclouds (van Gogh), Tahitian Landscape (Gauguin), and Haymaking (Bruegel)
Click here to learn more about the Fine Arts Pages and grab a sample!

I have all the Fine Art Pages printed out in a binder (because, you know that I love my binders!). One picture is taped up in the bathroom and another by the time-out bench, so the girls are sure to see them often - ha! I switch out the pictures every week or so, and it's been a great way to just enjoy looking at different works. No pressure, no lessons, just looking.
In addition to the giveaway, CCM has a Christmas Classics freebie available right now. It's packed with tons of free Christmas music, videos, and links to other Christmas goodies! Click here to check it out!

Are you ready to enter this awesome giveaway?! The winner will be announced on Saturday, Dec. 7. I'll contact the winner, and you'll have 24 hours to respond. Please check your spam folder! I'd hate for you to miss out on this prize because you never saw my email. Okie dokie... ready? Go for it!
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Giveaway #2 - Cycle 2 Teaching Plans

Welcome back to My Favorite Things! Are you ready for Giveaway #2?
Sola Gratia Mom has been a powerful presence in the unofficial Classical Conversations mama blogging world. It seems like everyone has heard of her teaching plans and been wowed by her Wonderful Wednesday activities. I mean, c'mon, did you see her Marie Antoinette wig project!? Brilliant!

How cute is her girl?! Precious!
Colleen, the Sola Gratia Mom, has generously offered one copy of her awesome teaching plans for weeks 13-24 to one blessed reader. The teaching plans include the Wonderful Wednesday activities and pin map documents!

Colleen's teaching plans offer creative ways to flesh-out the CC memory work. If you don't know much about her plans, I encourage you to read what she has to say about them by clicking here. I love how she explains her plans towards the bottom of that page:
. . . I hope that the Teaching Plans will be an enrichment to an already exceptional program.  I also hope it will help families not feel the pressure to run curriculums alongside of an already exceptional and full curriculum if they are left feeling like they could be doing more.  It's a freeing concept once you get a hold of what Leigh has provided for us and "trust the model" so to speak.  I also know that there are many hands on learners at the younger ages and Mommas that are crafty and enjoy doing hands on learning with their kids too, but don't have the time it takes to research it all - so this provides that option to them.  I wanted to inspire families to take what Leigh already has provided and do what they love and their kids enjoy, to inspire you both as you move through the Foundations years and make memories in the process.
The Teaching Plan is not something you have to follow day by day or week by week.  Take from it what helps you and forget the rest.  If you do 20 things from it this whole year then that's great and it's worth it!  If you do all of it for this year - then you're exceptional and you should be writing these plans!  :)  I personally, do probably 65 percent of what I put on the plans in a given year.  My daughter likes the games and videos because face it, we live in a technology rich world and she feels more a part of it when she's allowed to do something like a computer game on geography or watch a youtube video on math.  I've already reviewed them and I know they're safe so it's a win win for us.  We also do many of the english worksheets and all the Wonderful Wednesday projects along with select ideas for crafts/projects and experiments throughout the weeks of the year on our own.  My first priority is always memorization and it's always an enrichment to the week, to delve into the memory work in a fun hands on way - not a requirement for the week.
Ready to win a copy of her plans for weeks 13-24? Of course, right?! Enter below, and the winner will be announced this Thursday. If you're the winner, I'll contact you and you'll have 24 hours to respond. I know that's not a lot of time, but these giveaways are rapid-fire, and we have to get ready for the next one! Ready? Go for it!
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Giveaway #1 - Mega Verses

Are you ready for the first giveaway!?!
Kicking off the My Favorite Things event is Mega Verses!

Tommy and Jo Hendrix are homeschooling parents with a passion for Scripture memory. They've created CDs with matching Scripture cards to help families internalize God's Word. 
Mega Verses is one of my favorite things because they have created Scripture songs that go along with our Classical Conversations Bible memory work! Click here to check out their CC products. We listen to Jo singing Ephesians 6 almost every school day. We call her the 'lady in the box,' and her song has really helped Mary and I to begin to memorize this passage. Jo's singing is beautiful and the music is spot-on for us (we don't like too much pop-py Bible music). We also used their music last year to help us memorize Exodus 20.

Tommy and Jo were generous enough to send one of every product they sell! How awesome! I've grouped them into four prizes:

1. Volume 1 CD and matching Scripture cards (NIV)
2. Volume 2 CD and matching Scripture cards (NIV)
3. Volume 3 CD and matching Scripture cards (NIV)
4. King James Version CD of the CC Bible memory work for all cycles and the Ephesians 6 hand motions DVD

Click on the links to the prizes, check them out, and then enter below! Be sure to leave a comment to let me know your first and second choices for CDs. I'll randomly choose four winners and do my best to match the prizes to your preferences. These giveaway prizes are open to US residents only. After the winners have been selected this Tuesday, I'll contact you, and you'll have 24 hours to respond. I know it's fast, but the next giveaway is right around the corner, so we have to wrap up it all up pretty quickly to get ready for the next awesome prize. Are you pumped? Ready to enter? Go for it! :)
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It's Almost Here!

This big-mama of a giveaway starts very soon on Sunday, December 1 -
that's tomorrow!
These will be rapid-fire giveaways, with usually just a day or two to enter each one. We have ten amazing sponsors, including Classical Conversations, A Journey Through Learning, and Homeschool in the Woods, just to name a few. Click here for the complete list!
Trust me, friends, you do NOT want to miss a giveaway! I've decided to keep the prizes a secret until the posts go live, just to make it more exciting!
Are you on pins and needles yet?!
There are a couple of ways you can make sure you don't miss out. First, click here to like the blog on Facebook. Next, you can sign-up to receive And Here We Go! right in your inbox. Subscribe on the right sidebar so you won't miss a single giveaway this December!
See you tomorrow for Giveaway #1!
(so excited!)

A Big Announcement!

Christmas is getting closer every day! To help add some joy to your busy December, we're having a big, blow-out giveaway event!
I am so excited!
Beginning December 1 and ending Christmas Eve (that's like the whole month! Eeeek!), I'll be giving away a prize just about every other day! I say 'just about' because I'm still finalizing the schedule; updates will be posted closer to the beginning of this amazing event!
When I started sending out emails asking people if they'd like to participate in this Christmas giveaway event, I had no idea what kind of responses I would get, if any! To my surprise, the people behind these big names are, well, real people who want to share in the joy of giving back this time of year. How awesome is that!
Without further adieu, here is a list of the sponsors:

Mega Verses - Click here for this giveaway!

Homegrown Learners

Chess is Child's Play
Check out my review of this awesome book by clicking here!

Classical Composers Monthly

Homeschool Story

A Journey Through Learning

Sola Gratia Mom

Classical Conversations

Wisdom and Righteousness

Home School in the Woods


Aren't you so excited!
I'll do another post closer to December letting you know of everyone's prizes and the dates each giveaway will start. 
Thank you to all the sponsors; you are so generous!
I hope you'll join me December 1 as we begin My Favorite Things: A Merry Christmas Giveaway Event!