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I'm Proud to be a Purex Insider because I honestly do use their products all the time. 

Wanna know a secret?  I was a loyal Downy Fabric Softener user until Purex came along with Purex Crystals.  This was the about the same time I became a Purex Insider.  I honestly prefer the Purex Crystals.  I love the smell. 

My favorite is Fresh Spring Water.  Even better and more important is that I could finally start using fabric softener when I wash my towels.  It doesn't leave the waxy film that prevents your towels from absorbing moisture.  Isn't that GREAT!!  Since this came out, my old fabric softener also came out with a bead style but I kid you not - I really don't like the scent of those as much and I definitely like the money I save with Purex Crystals.

By the way - Purex didn't ask me to share these thoughts with you.  It's just that when I find a product that I really LOVE I want others to know about it too.  I'm all about saving money but not at the expense of getting a lesser product.

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Announcing The Winners of 2 Giveaways

The Land O' Lakes Prize Pack Giveaway Winning # is 586 and the winner is:

Janet Fri

Thanks for Twitting about the giveaway Janet!!!

The Lady Anti Monkey Butt Powder Giveaway Winning # is 270 and the winner is:

Cori Westphal

Cori you also won for twitting about my giveaway.  Thanks so much!!!

 
I love my sponsors and want to give them a  BIG Thank You.  So Thank You Land O' Lakes Eggs, My Blog Spark, and Lady Anti Monkee Butt Powder - tee-hee, I'm still laughing when I say that!

Money Saving Coupon - Pillsbury Refrigerated Disney Shape Cookies

Who says cookies are an after school snack?  Nothings better than fresh from the oven cookies all year long.  And um-hum we're way past the after school age in this house. 

Just click here and you can print a coupon for $1.10 Off when you buy ANY Pillsbury® Refrigerated Disney Shape® Cookies (while supplies last)


I just wish our grand kids - Tristan, Zach and Ki'a were here to enjoy them. Kids are never so old that they turn down Disney or Pillsbury Cookies. That's why Neil and I will be snacking on some today. hee-hee. I've always got them in the freezer, and more nights than I like to admit, I'll bake a sheet up real quick.

Disclosure: The coupon was provided by General Mills through MyBlogSpark.

Purex Teams Up With Dry Idea For A Big Sweepstakes

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The Charlatan's Boy Review

I had the pleasure to read a great summer (or anytime) novel for older children or young tweens.  I chose to review this with Zach, my grandson in mind.

See A Genuine He-Feechie Alive And In The Flesh!

Grady is an orphan who travels the hot back roads of the South.  The only life he remembers is the one a huckster named Floyd has given him.  Like all hucksters, carnival folk or medicine men they never stay long in one spot traveling from village to village making a living pulling hoaxes and flimflams. 

Now times are leaner and the good people of the fictional Corenwald frontier don't spend their money easily. Especially since they don't believe in feechies anymore.  Are do they?  Floyd the charlatan has hatched a plan for Grady and him to create another Great Feechie Scare. 

Grady misses the exciting days when he played the feechie from the swamp, but has a longing to know more about his past and who he really is.

My Thoughts:
This is about a boy who is playing the part of ugliest boy in the world.  Which isn't all that hard when you're, well...ugly.  He says so and Floyd says so.  They tell people his so ugly that he comes from a made up group of swamp people called the feechiefolks, the inhabitants of the Feechiefen.  It's sort of a Southern Mark Twain tell for kids.  It's written as a first person account of Grady's adventures.  The author Jonathan Roger grew up in Georgia where he spent lots of hours playing in the swamps and riverboats of the South.  These memories provided him the imagination to develop the wild places of The Charlatan's Boy.

Jonathan uses a lot of Southern isms when writing this book. Spelling words more like we say them down here than spelling them correctly.  This is probably why I connected with the story and wanted Zach to read it.  With Zach being raised so far from the South in New York, I thought it would be adventure into a place that's maybe a little mysterious and will let his mind drift off to an imagined land. 

It can be a little slow at times but I'm thinking that might be more the grandma in me as opposed to a young boy with an imagination.  I'm happy I reviewed it and I think Zach will be happy when he gets to read it too.

To learn more about Jonathan Rogers you can visit his website http://jonathan-rogers.com/.

Disclosure:  I received a free copy of this book from WaterBrook Multnomah for my honest review.

Wishbones and Backbones, Sugar and Stength

Source: bitsotruth.blogspot.com via Tracy on Pinterest

This should be my new mantra.  I don't know why my wishbone has always been way bigger and way stronger than my backbone.

I miss the T.V. shows and movies I grew up with.  I miss Andy Griffith, I Love Lucy and The Dick Van Dyke Show.  Who could not like the affable Rob Petrie and his fun, cute wife Laura played by Mary Tyler Moore?

I love the first Cinderella Disney made, and the original Snow White. I love the beautiful techno-color of the animated films.  The sweet gentle fairy tales.  Remember how all the birds and animals had such sweet personalities.

From: http://mothgirlwings.tumblr.com/post/21769722091/cinderella-1950

My sweet mama had backbone.  She didn't encourage me to live in the fantasy of T.V. or the movies.  That was my own doing.  I was told often enough life is not what you see on television.  Still I couldn't get those wonderful images out of my head and always thought that's what life should be and what I wished it would be.  Don't get me wrong.  I didn't have an awful childhood.  The very opposite.  I was very loved with parents who never divorced and a sister who I'm so grateful for to this day.

Were television and movie writers to blame for painting everything so rosy?  It is supposed to be entertainment and a way to escape the harsh realities of everyday life. 

I still love fairy tales and always will.  I appreciate the changes in what the media offers us now.  I still can't help wishing there were more wholesome, genteel shows on television.  It's not that I don't watch shows like Snapped, horror movies and things like that because I do.  I love a good Lifetime movie but I can't help but think that having some of the more violent shows in every home in America has led to the downfall in our Nations morals.

And since I started writing and it just sorta evolved into this, I might as well mention that I am looking forward to seeing the new Snow White movies that are out like Mirror, Mirror and Snow White and the Huntsman.  If the movies are anything like the previews, it looks as if they do depict women/girls in a stronger more independent light.  That's a good thing.  Girls don't need to lose their sweetness all together but lets show them that they need to learn to balance it with some backbone too.  

Well, it sounds like I wrote this post just so I could stand on my soapbox but that's not why I started it.  I started it because I've spent my life wishing, and while it's fun, it's doesn't take the place of living and sometimes you need a backbone for that.

Warning:  You might be seeing one are two more of these posts before I start feeling better.  Be forewarned.

Source: beautifullyrooted.com via Tracy on Pinterest

♥...Tracy