Make My Saturday Sweet #37 ~ Amanda's Books and More

Friday, May 17, 2013

Make My Saturday Sweet #37

Today I'm linking with two Friday hops!

Finish the Sentence Friday and Friendship Friday.

And, don't forget to link your blog at

the bottom on my blog hop!

Finish the Sentence Friday - May 17

When I was younger, I wanted to……

own a candy store. I loved imagining being surrounded by all the colorful sweets and seeing the wonder and joy on children’s faces. For me, a candy store was one of the happiest places to spend your days. It wouldn’t feel like work at all and I’d sample the tasty treats whenever I wanted to.

I still remember what house we were living in when I day-dreamed about my candy store, so I would have been around 10 years old at the time. It was a step up from a lemonade stand, something I also did in those days. Believe it or not, people stopped their cars and bought lemonade in those days. I was thrilled to make a bit of money and to see the smiles on the adults’ faces.

It's Children's Book Week and the theme for Friendship Friday

is on childhood books, favorite authors and your children's

favorite books.

When I was younger, I didn't have many children's books around

me. I couldn't read in English either, so that didn't help.

English was my home language, but the school I attended from

the end of Kindergarten to part of Grade 3 was a German school

in Germany. My dad was stationed there in the American Army in

the JAG Corps. My mom was half Austrian and spoke German and

I had a grandfather and grandmother who were living in Germany.

My parents decided that my brother and I would be better off

learning the language if we went to the closest German school

instead of the even closer American school.

Later on, from about Grade 5 and onward, I began reading avidly.

One of my favorite novels in my teen years was Jane Eyre.

As I began reading for my own children, we went through the

Narnia series by C.S. Lewis. That was great fun for all of us,

but sometimes my then youngest child, Samantha, got a bit lost

with the characters.

Amanda, my youngest who is now 5, has many children's books

available to her. More than half of her library are books

from her siblings when they were younger. Amanda enjoys

looking at all of them.

Make sure you check out the Kid Lit Giveaway Hop!

I have teamed up with the author of a really neat

Mermaid eBook and we are giving 5 away! Also,

on the linky list there are many other giveaways

for this Children's Book Week. So, don't miss out!

Now on to the blog hop...

It's time for another Make My Saturday Sweet blog hop!

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jnine0712 126p · 619 weeks ago

Oh a candy store sounded so very sweet and you are right they always did seem so very happy. Thank you for linking up with us again and happily submitted my link at the bottom, too. Hope you have a wonderful weekend, too :)
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Judy Haughton-James · 619 weeks ago

Very interesting Christina! A candy store is definitely a wonderful place! :) I am also participating in Friendship Friday and have answered the questions in my post. I like the book Jane Eyre and even watched the television series based on the book. Thanks for hosting and have a great weekend.
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tinarobmorley 93p · 619 weeks ago

I think I would have enjoyed the television series, but I never saw it. I did see the recent movie of it, but I think it's hard to fit a whole book and all the feelings that it invokes into one movie. I'll check out your Question Time post now!
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Tanya · 619 weeks ago

What a sweet dream to own a candy store! :) I linked up my thoughts on my favorite kid's book with Friendship Friday. I did not enjoy Jane Eyre when forced to read it in school, now that I have a book blog and enjoy reading, I think I need to give her another try!
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stephsprenger 51p · 619 weeks ago

Oh, I loved the Narnia series! I can't imagine what a challenge that would be, not being able to read in your native language! Love the candy store dream- I think that must be a childhood staple- I was obsessed with candy stores!
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tinarobmorley 93p · 619 weeks ago

I couldn't see where to leave a comment, so I'm commenting here. I love your 6 points! They are very grounded and you can encourage them as guidelines to follow in your home. My 5 year-old has to learn these things too. I guide her and she's turning out to be a good friend to other kids most of the time, but sometimes the other kids are not, and then you have to decide if you should guide them too, but when it's in your home, then I think it's your right to be friendly and say what you think is correct behavior. Unless the mom is around, then you usually have to keep your mouth shut. Parents can be very sensitive and not grounded when it comes to their own kids.
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