**Mat Kearney Giveaway!** (CLOSED)

Mat

Kearney

Young

Love

There is a song on this CD that I saw a video of on tv a few weeks ago, and I have been wanting to here what else this artiest had!  So,

I was more than happy when I was asked to do a review and giveaway of Mat Kearney's new CD "Young Love". 

This is his third album and was released on August 2nd.  The album landed at #4 on the Billboard Top 200 and #1 on the Top Digital Albums Chart during it's first week! 

The song "Hey Mama" was the one that I saw a video for.  This song describes the first meeting between him and his new wife.  The video was made in New Orleans, Louisiana.

The cd is filled with lots of music that has a great beat and you can dance too.  You may even find yourself singing along.  "Hey Mama" is still my favorite, but there are quite a few other songs on this cd that has caught my attention.

You can find this album on iTunes, check out Mat Kearney's Website, or look him up on facebook.

***Giveaway***

You can win your own Mat Kearney cd "Young Love".

***Mandatory***

Tell me where the video for "Hey Mama" was filmed.  You must include your email for me to be able to contact you if you win.

***Extra Entries***

1.  Be a Follower of my blog. (3 extra entries)

2.  Follow me on twitter and tweet the following.  You can tweet once a day!

#RT #WIN a Mat Kearney cd "Young Love" from @savingmomsanity. Ends 8/31 http://tinyurl.com/3wmxr27

3.  Tell me if you like the video for "Hey Mama"

That's it! The giveaway will end on August 31 at 11:59 pm.  The winner will have 48 hours to get back to me after the winning email has been sent out or another winner will be chosen.  This opertunity was offered to me from the One2One Network. Good Luck!

Welcome To A New World

As you grow life changes.  You grow up with your family, then before you know it your on your own.  You discover a new world that you didn't know exsited before.  You have a job to pay bills you never had before.  You can make decisions all on your own.  You can eat cake for dinner if you want to. 

Wow, that was a big deal.  Then your world changes again when you get married and start a family.  All of a sudden you have someone who depends on you.  Those bills you had before multiply and you have to make real ruls for your family.  There goes the eating cake for dinner thing!

Right when you are comfortable with your world it changes again.  Your little baby boy, your only child, is going to school.  This is when you realize that not only is your world changing, so is his.  He isn't in his safe home with his Mommy and Daddy.  He can't eat when he wants and take his time doing it.  He has a new person to listen to and new rules to follow.  His world has just changed!  What a big change too!

This means your life has to change to.  Your baby boy isn't a baby.  He is growing up.  He will learn new things and want to be more independent.  He will learn bad behaviors as well as good ones.  He will learn that not everyone has the same kind of family life he has.  He will learn that the world is bigger than he thought.

Will started his first day of school Monday.  Kindergarten is a new world to him, but he is doing good so far.  Lots of changes have been taking place in our lives.  Going to school has been one of them, but to top it off, he lost his very first tooth the day before he started his very first day of school. 

What can a Momma do?  My baby is growing up and as hard as that is for me, I have to accept it.

Thankful Thursday

Here is another Thursday and another day to be thankful. 


Today I am going to share how thankful I am that God gives and He takes away.  We have been blessed with all that He has given us, but do we really thank Him for all the things he takes away?


So often we are thankful for new jobs, new babies, new friends, and new journeys.  How often do are we thankful for the loss of a job, the loss of a friend, or the loss of any kind?  Today I am thankful for a loss.  As most of you know I have been asking for your prayers concerning my son's Medicaid.  I got the call Friday that he is was turned down because our income is $7.50 too much a month.  We are eligible for the LaCHIP affordable plan that is $50 a month and doesn't cover much of anything.


How can I be thankful for this?  Well, I am thankful that I have so many friends that prayed with me.  I am thankful that my son is healthy and we don't have to depend on Medicaid for his survival.  I am thankful that God has another plan for us.  Because no matter what happens, we are in God's hands.  He will know what to do and lead us in the right direction.  He has not left us to take care of ourselves.  I know He is in control.  With God's plan in place, I walk with a smile on my face.  We will make it through.  It took a while for me to remember God's love after this hard news, but I did!  Losing Will's Medicaid was a hard thing for me, but also a great reminder that The Lord has His own plans that may be different than mine. 


At this time we have decided not to get the $50 plan.  We will see where our path that God has for us leads.  In the future we may have the extra money for the $50 plan or be able to get Will's Medicaid back.  Only God knows.  We where blessed to have Medicaid for Will's first 5 years of his life! 


What has God taken away from you that you can be thankful for? 


Thank you to Laurie who is the host of Thankful Thursday this month.  You can find her at Women Taking A Stand.

A Busy Bee In Camouflage

Last week was a very emotional roller coaster for me.  This week wasn't so bad, but has still been busy.  I am trying to get Will ready for school and still spend the last few days with him as a preschooler.  By Monday he will officially be a school age child. 

Wow! I'm going to miss having him right next to me 24 hours a day 7 days a week.  The thing that kills me the most is the Independence the Kindergarten teachers are dead set on teaching him.  He will soon learn to find his class room on his own in the mornings, and stand next to the room waiting for the teacher and not make a ton of noise with the other kids.  He will learn to find his way to the lunch room and back.  He will have to learn to get his plate, find his seat, eat in a timely manner, put up his trash, and find his way back to class all on his own. (The teachers and bigger kids will help at first.) 

This was a big wake up call for me.  My little boy is growing up.  I know I'm not ready for a big boy yet :(  What happened to my baby? (sigh)

I am preparing myself by staying busy.  I have been personalizing everything he needs for school in my own sort of crafty way.  He had a chair back that I paid someone to embroider for me.  I had his name put on it.  I didn't want to totally bedazzle it.  He is a boy and all.  (Plus Hubby really would not be for the bedazzled chair back for his son!) 

I did get to put his name on his back pack myself though.  He chose a camouflage back pack.  (It's twice his size! LOL!!!)  I tried to paint his name on it.  I went to Michael's and got orange paint and stencils.  I even got an iron-on applique he picked out.

I got busy putting on his name.  I started by taking an old shirt to try it out on first. I didn't want to totally ruin his back pack if it didn't work.

It's a good thing I tried it on an old shirt, because it surly didn't work.  I was totally bummed.  I was set on having his name on his back pack though.  So I decided to try something different.  I took the two old shirts and cut them up.  Sewed them together and cut the letters of his name out from the same shirts.  I sewed that on there too. It worked!

Here is his new school back pack.  Name and all!!!

What do you think?  Good or does it look like a big mess?  I have mixed feelings about it.  It's not what I wanted, but it's still unique.

Saturday's Giveaways

Here are some giveaways I entered this week.  I know it's not much, but with my crazy week, most of the giveaways got away from me this week.  These are the great ones I just couldn't pass up though!!!




Momma In Flip Flops 2 is giving away a Princeton Tec BOT headlamp-Ends 8/16


Momma In Flip Flops 2 is giving away a $15 Gift Card to Piggy Paints-Ends 8/8


Surviving a Teacher's Salary is giving away a USA States and Capitals Bingo Class Room Set-Ends 8/19


Surviving a Teacher's Salary is giving away Simple Sentence Reading Rods to (2) winners-Ends 8/19


Surviving a Teacher's Salary is giving away a Tassimo T20 Brewbot-Ends 8/19


Surviving a Teacher's Salary is giving away a Phineas and Ferb Prize Pack-Ends 8/19

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Thankful Thursdays

It's Thursday again my friends.  I'm not sure what happened to the first part of the week.  I know it was there, but it was full of emotions.  I have herd before that you go through every emotion each day.  I have always believed that. 

This week has been hard on me.  I've had shock over how much everything has gone up in a year (we went to the eye doctor), I've felt despair, sadness, and self pity over something I wanted soooo bad that was just not meant to be, and I've felt happy, excited, nervous and scared over my little boy going to meet his Kindergarten teacher for the first time.  All those feelings happened in three days.  I am ready to get into my old happy go lucky emotions. 

So, now you are wondering what I could possibly be thankful for after all that.  Well, I am thankful for each and every emotion I had.  It is amazing how God has made us.  We are so intricately designed and the emotions that we are given is just the tip it all. 

Without our emotions we would be so different.  We wouldn't be the great people we are today.  Imagine your life without just one of the emotions you feel.  I don't think I would want to loose any of my emotions.  Sometimes I just wish I could keep them to myself a little more;)

I can only imagine that God's feelings for us.  He loves us a million and more times than we can ever imagine loving someone.  When we think our sadness is going to kill us we must remember how much sadder God is sometimes.   WOW!

I also wanted to thank all of you who have been praying with me about my son's Medicaid.  I still have not gotten a letter or a phone call telling me if he will get renewed.  Please continue to keep us in your prayers. This is heavy on my heart right now.

 

Thankful Thursday is hosted this month by Laurie at Women Taking A Stand! Hop on over and join us!