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2019 Summer Reading Programs & Lists: A Lilla Rose Reading Incentive

Many businesses encourage kids to read over the summer. Many also offer incentives for meeting minimum reading requirements. Some of those requirements include a minimum number of reading minutes, and some require a minimum number of books. Often, one of the requirements is that the reading is in addition to a school summer reading list, and the two should not be the same. 

Some of these businesses include local libraries, Barnes and Noble, Books a Million, and restaurants such as Chuck E Cheese. Even Six Flags has a reading incentive program! There is a list of businesses and their incentives here. 

Personally, I get a little sad that I’m no longer eligible as an adult for any of these reading incentive programs! Sometimes I need an incentive and accountability to reach my goals! Besides, why should children have all the fun! Adults want to be rewarded too!

I made an ambitious reading list for myself last week. Many of these books have been on my nightstand or stacked on my desk or near my bed for, uh, years. I thought I would read more while I recovered from my surgery, but vision and dry eyes was a problem. Yep. There’s always an excuse. Ask me how reading off the list is still going.

Not good. I have a nursing license continuing ed class and a blogging class to do too. But, if I’m going to keep my own children reading throughout the summer, I need to do it too. I also finally feel back on my game.

My reading list is divided into four categories: Biographies, Fiction, Faith, and Business. I have listed it below, so maybe that will give me some accountability! Throughout the summer I will try to do reviews of a few of the books, at least.

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Summer 2019 Reading List

My 2019 Summer Reading List
June 15-August 31, 2019

Biographies

Fiction

Faith

Business

I decided that I would encourage other children and adults to read a minimum of ten books each this summer. I am offering an incentive on my Lilla Rose with LoveLeavingLegacy business page. I’m offering a gift certificate giveaway. For every ten books above and beyond the original ten books, a lady or child (boy or girl) will be entered in a gift certificate giveaway only available through me, a Lilla Rose Independent Stylist. If you are unfamiliar with Lilla Rose, you can see more here.

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Summer Reading Fun For Kids


You can find the rules for engagement for the Summer Reading Fun for Kids here and the Adult Summer Reading Fun can be found here, as well as the links to the downloadable reading trackers for each in these events.

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Adult Summer Reading Fun

A guide for finding age appropriate great books for children to immerse themselves in throughout the summer, and that won’t merely tickle their ears and eyes with twaddle type reading is Honey for A Child’s Heart. The books listed are truly books that promote wonderful, thought provoking books that build minds but are fun. It has served as a wonderful resource list for our family during our 20 years of homeschooling. Reading has been an incredible strength for all six of our children. Another great thing is that it is a fabulous resource for creating a list to take to the library! Another great book for older children is Honey for a Teen’s Heart . There is even a Honey for a Woman’s Heart!

In addition, in the Summer Reading Fun for Kids, I will also share a few Back to School easy hairstyles, hair care tips, organizational ideas, and freezer meal recipes I will be using to get us all ready back into the swing of things for the first day of school. It’s hard to believe I’m talking about Back to School already! Our school year hasn’t even ended yet!

I hope you will join us!

Blessings, 

Deb

 

 

Update, Entrepreneurship, And A Visit From The Flexi Founder

In his wisdom. my son Andrew said “Mom. Thursday was hard. It was really hard seeing you so impaired. You were so swollen and swelling at we watched into the night on Thursday. Even I had to cry. But don’t delete these photos. On bad days you are going to need them. You will have come so far and you will need to know just how far that is.”
Even though we have one, Lydia is unable to view my “scar” photo. My right ear and neck are very swollen. Today I am very dizzy, having finished both OT and PT, and waiting a bed placement at Mary Free Bed in patient rehab for up to two weeks . This is what is next on my agenda. This is over 40 minutes from my family, and a big sacrifice for everyone. I need to get well. Staff here at Bronson is so good about anticipating my needs, and at home things are “reactive.” Just how much stress the family is all going to be under is significant to me! I need to go rest well where needs are less stressful to the prepared staff.

Yesterday an awesome surprise came in the form of our CEO and flexi founder, John Dorsey. I had had been up many hours in the night very sick, and I had literally been “allowed and encouraged” to sleep. No one at the hospital knew John was coming or the significance of the fact for my family. They would have managed differently if they’d known.

My kids got Entrepreneurship 101 from one of the best on Monday afternoon. They got to eat lunch with John Dorsey, founder of Lilla Rose, and talk the future of the company. That he invested in my family, in my children, in their crisis means so much to me!

Thank you, John! Seeing our situation as a “Unit” and not just me with a difficult thing to overcome means much.

Lydia, John Dorsey, and Andrew

Peter and John Dorsey

So today: A little more healing. Vulnerable, raw, tired, dizzy, loss of some modesty, loss of my “control freakishness”, memory loss. I will count all loss gain in a few weeks.
Preparation for more future. That describes my day.

12/04/2018, 9:30 AM, Post breakfast, post shower where they let me wear real clothes! And using a walker because I’m a Fall Risk…

I’m in a good place!

 

Blessings,

Deb

St. Patrick’s Day Green

I’m not Irish, and I am not Catholic. Over the years I’ve not quite understood St. Patrick’s Day, the green significance, clovers, luck, and leprechauns. Today, I did a quick little research.

  • St. Patrick was a missionary and patron saint of Ireland.

  • He used Irish symbols and rituals to teach Christianity to the Irish, especially Celtic symbols. He is said to have created the Celtic cross.

  • Today, in the United States, St. Patrick’s day celebrations have to do with Irish American strength and commitment to their heritage, especially as ancestors immigrated to the United States.

  • St. Patrick used the clover to teach the concept of the Trinity.

  • Rainbows, pots of gold, and leprechauns were part of Irish mythology fables and stories.

  • Green, the color on the Irish flag, has been the traditional color of Irish nationalism since the 17th century.

  • Emerald Isle is a name used when referring to Ireland because of its lush greenery and countryside.

  • Green is often the color that symbolizes new life, birth, money, wealth, and health.

Sources:

How are you going to coordinate your St. Patrick’s Day wardrobe and your hair accessories!?

Lilla Rose has quite a few Celtic styles in leather, braided leather, leather like Celtic knot or Celtic heart, Celtic knots in several metal finish choices and one with wood beads, a Celtic cross, and Trinitee. There are green options like Emerald Joy in a flexi clip, upins, bobby pins, hair sticks, and a hair band.

The new Flexi of the Month shown in the video, Cliono, will be released on March 1, 2018.

Come check out my website to see all the choices, as there are more from the sampling below, available beginning March 1, 2018, and some in Limited availability. Come join my Facebook page or customer group for more sneak peak previews, the latest on the customer specials, or upcoming sales!

Need some extra green? 

Come over to my Builders group to learn more about this two week opportunity special. It ends on March 14th. 

Later this week, after working with me at the Women’s Lifestyle Expo here in Kalamazoo, my two youngest daughters have the privilege of attending a Daddy-Daughter Dance with their Daddy.

The girls plan to wear the dresses they wore to their brother’s wedding last July with their silver sparkly shoes, and sparkly jewelry.

Today my oldest daughter, who is 16 years old and loves to experiment with hairstyles, tried a new one on her middle sister who has thick, waist length hair. We’re calling it a Dutch Braid Crown Bun. It is secured with Lilla Rose “naked” bobby pins (they are call Lux on the website.) On Saturday, the girls intend to use decorated bobby pins to decorate the bun, and show off the weave in the center of the bun where it is woven.

Lady L will actually be demonstrating how she did this at the Women’s Lifestyle Expo on Saturday around 3 pm. Depending on how busy we are, maybe we will make a video of her doing it.

Sssh. Don’t tell her. She hates being Live on video.

Which bobby pins on the Lilla Rose website do you think Missy E should place in her hair?

Have a great week!

Until then,

Blessings, 
Deb

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