{"id":572,"date":"2011-12-03T11:12:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T16:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/saturday-december-3-2011-3\/"},"modified":"2011-12-03T11:12:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-03T16:12:00","slug":"saturday-december-3-2011-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/saturday-december-3-2011-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday December 3, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

If this isn’t a lucky one, I don’t know what is. The famous <\/span>Dorcas Smucker<\/a> is giving away not one book, but all THREE of the books she wrote. I LOVE the way Dorcas takes the most ordinary things and wraps them up in words that make you laugh one minute and notice minute details the next. There are interesting snippets from her girl days growing up amish and tons of stories of current days with her fascinating family of six kids. I LOVE the way she raises respectful, free-spirited, intelligent, creative thinkers and I wish I were more like her … even as I’m shuddering thinking of orange pop specks all over MY kitchen ceiling. <\/span>

Her writing is a fine mesh of story-telling, introspection and humor. And oh, the stories she tells.<\/span>

Here are the words from the back cover of Ordinary Days<\/span>.<\/span>

“Imagine raising six spirited kids on a grass farm. Today. That’ll test any mama’s strength.<\/span>
Newspaper columnist Dorcas Smucker and her brood live out their days in full view in this collection of musings — picking blueberries while watching for bears, hoping for angels off the nearby freeway, moving into the thousand story house, enduring 15-year-old Matt’s lecture on respect while captive in the car. Then there was the four-week road trip, which, Dorcas says, “my sister-in-law warned me would be like putting your whole family in the bathroom and staying there for three days.”<\/span>

One person will win one copy of each of her books:<\/span>
Ordinary Days<\/span>
Upstairs the Peasants are Revolting<\/span>
Downstairs the Queen is knitting<\/span><\/font>

\"November<\/a>

To enter, leave a comment on this xanga post. You can earn a second entry by linking to facebook or your blog. Come back and leave a second comment telling me you did so. If you do not comment with a xanga or facebook identity, please check back when the giveaway ends or leave your email address so that I can get the books to you. Giveaway ends Thursday, December 8th.<\/span>

And just for fun …..<\/span>

These books are perfect for any one really, but I’ve chosen to fix a fictitious gift basket for a mom in the throes of morning sickness. Not for the mom who is curled up into a fetal ball with her eyes squinched shut whenever she’s not heaving over the toilet, but for the mom who is sick, lying on the sofa a lot, and just miserable inbetween the trips to throw up. Because each chapter is it’s own story, it’s easy to pick up the book at different times and read a short part of it without feeling as though you lost the story line. Plus, Dorcas makes you laugh a lot. And laughing when you’re sick is a good thing. So here’s my basket:<\/span>

\"November<\/a>


light weight blanket<\/span>
books to read<\/span>
and a video to keep the kids occupied for a few hours so you can actually stay horizontal for thirty minutes <\/span>

To order your own copy:<\/span>
email Dorcas: dorcassmucker{at}gmail{dot}com<\/span>

or send your order and $12 per book to:<\/span>
31148 Substation Drive<\/span>
Harrisburg, OR 97446<\/span>

or you can find them on <\/span>Amazon<\/a>

and very likely find them at your local bookstore.<\/span>

Good luck!<\/span><\/p>\n

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