THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

You all were a blessing to us this week. To all of you who posted comments, reviews, and words of encouragement, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts. There are no words that can aptly express the gratitude we hold for each and every one of our faithful customers and friends. You've made us and continue making us a household name for homeschool material.

This year's contest yielded many more participants than last year and we know a lot of that is thanks to you and your recommendations to friends, family, and even your homeschool co-ops.

We offer our congratulations to the winners this week: Mollie, Joleen, Bobbi, Saleena, and Theresa! Thank you ladies for playing and supporting us!

Those of you who didn't win a prize from our blog this week be checking your inboxes for a coupon code that will get you a product from our store for FREE. No one is walking away from this giveaway a loser. To US you are all winners!

Kelly, Shannon, and Heidi

DAY FIVE--$75 CASH GIVEAWAY

No books today to giveaway just $75 in CASH!! Whoo Hoo! This is the last day to get in your entries. Blog, tweet, review, or comment on our facebook fan page and you'll get your entry in for today! Please do this by 11:00PM EST. If you've played all week the odds are in your favor because you have more than one entry in our drawing!

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE REMEMBER to email us the location of where you commented at info@fortunatelyforyoubooks.com

If you win our cash giveaway, $75 can be sent to you either through PayPal or by us sending you a business check through the mail if you do not have a paypal account.

PayPal is fast and secure and you can have your money instantly in your paypal account! Go to Paypal.com to sign up for an account today!

We'll contact you if you are the winner at 11:00PM EST to get your information so keep a close eye on those inboxes!

DAY FOUR--AMERICAN GIRL BUNDLE

We love the American Girls in my home!! Each different era that is represented helps young girls to see the differences and the similarities between their own time and of time past. American Girl books are wonderful readers for your young ladies!

For THURSDAY'S GIVEAWAY we are giving away 2 books. Kit's Surprise and Samantha's Surprise. Both of these books are Christmas themed and give a great moral to the story! Along with these 2 books you will be getting a coupon code that gets you Lines of Time for Kit's Surprise and Tags of Time for Samantha's surprise all for FREE!






FOR THURSDAY'S GIVEAWAY all you have to do is blog, tweet, comment on our Facebook page or yours, or leave raving reviews for us on Currclick (if you have recently bought from us there). If you left comments and reviews yesterday or Monday please blog, tweet, review, or comment something new today. REMEMBER that when you do this you are entering for TODAY's contest but you are racking up your entries for FRIDAY's $75 CASH PRIZE GIVEAWAY!!! Who couldn't use 75 EXTRA dollars around the holidays?

Remember to email us the location of your comment and give us your name and address. Emails can be sent to info@fortunatelyforyoubooks.com

Please send in any entries before 11:00 PM EST. You will be contacted late tonight or tomorrow morning if you are the winner

DAY THREE--DREAM SNOW

We did not forget about the preschoolers out there and so today's selection is DREAM SNOW by Eric Carle and a coupon for a FREE ebook for Little Lines of Time for Dream Snow. This wonderfully illustrated hardback book is a must have for your little one's Christmas library. You may not have a preschooler in the home but do you know of one that could enjoy this book? Well, we want you to play for them!

FOR WEDNESDAY'S GIVEAWAY all you have to do is blog, tweet, comment on our Facebook page or yours, or leave raving reviews for us on Currclick (if you have recently bought from us there). If you left comments and reviews yesterday or Monday please blog, tweet, review, or comment something new today. REMEMBER that when you do this you are entering for TODAY's contest but you are racking up your entries for FRIDAY's $75 CASH PRIZE GIVEAWAY!!! Who couldn't use 75 EXTRA dollars around the holidays?

Remember to email us the location of your comment and give us your name and address. Emails can be sent to info@fortunatelyforyoubooks.com

Please send in any entries before 11:00 PM EST. You will be contacted late tonight or tomorrow morning if you are the winner.

Day Two Giveaway

Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without this great classic by Dr. Suess. No matter what your age, I'll bet you still watch the cartoon when on TV and sing the song when you think no one is listening! You'll get this great hardcover book and a coupon for a FREE Pockets of Time for How the Grinch Stole Christmas from FFYB! We want you to play even if you have this book and our product. Why not give it as a gift to someone who may not have the book?


FOR TUESDAY'S GIVEAWAY all you have to do is blog, tweet, comment on our Facebook page or yours, or leave raving reviews for us on Currclick (if you have recently bought from us there). If you left comments and reviews yesterday please blog, tweet, review, or comment something new today. REMEMBER that when you do this you are entering for TODAY's contest but you are racking up your entries for FRIDAY's CASH PRIZE GIVEAWAY.

Remember to email us the location of your comment and give us your name and address. Emails can be sent to info@fortunatelyforyoubooks.com

Please send in any entries before 11:00 PM EST. You will be contacted late tonight or tomorrow morning if you are the winner.

DAY ONE --THE NUTCRACKER

Today is Day ONE of our week-long giveaway. Every day this week (M-F) you will have a chance to win a great book and coupon for the FFYB product that goes with the story. What do you have to do? Blog, tweet, give us a great review at currclick, or even go to our FACEBOOK FAN PAGE and comment on any of our products. Once you do that, email us the link at info@fortunatelyforyoubooks.com so we may see your comments. In your email tell us your name and shipping information and every night your name will go into the pot to be randomly selected for our gift. Play everyday for your chance to win!

Hint: Friday's giveaway is extra special and if you have entered all through the week you will have up to FIVE entries for Friday's drawing upping your chance of winning!

TODAY'S GIVEAWAY is for THE NUTCRACKER by Susan Jeffers. This book (retail value: $16.99) is a beautifully illustrated book of the classic tale of the The Nutcracker. Inside the book will be your FFYB coupon to download our POCKETS OF TIME FOR THE NUTCRACKER absolutely FREE!


So let those reviews, comments, and posts roll in!

6 DAYS!!

Six days until our BIGGEST EVER giveaway! Set your clocks, mark your calendars, and get those brains wound up because you are so not going to want to miss this!

Starting December 7th!

Our first giveaway starts Monday!

COMING SOON!

The Holidays are coming!! We will be having fun and giving away prizes soon!

Friday's Contest Winner!

Congratulations to Saleena for sending us the funniest holiday story. Here is what she sent:
"My family will probably never let me forget the Christmas Eve that I caught my hair on fire. It was just last Christmas. We were waiting on company. I decided to light some candles. Then I got a bright idea to set a large one down in the fireplace. While holding the lit candle in my right hand, I bent down to move the grate. I smelled something strange. Hmm. My daughter yelled, "Mom your hair's on fire!" I realize there was a flame on the side of my head! As I'm smacking myself in the head and yelling for my husband to do something, he and my children are laughing so hard that they can't even speak! What help they were! I not only had to put my own flammable hair out, but my sister in law who arrived shortly after, gave me a candle for Christmas! So,as you probably can guess the laughter at my expense started again!"

Thanks Saleena for sharing that funny moment with us (although probably not to you at the time) . We also want to thank all the other people who sent stories as well. There was one other story that was funny and gave us the creeps at the same time. It definitely deserves an honorable mention. We thought we'd share it with you. You'll see what we mean!

Jolanthe wrote:

"Our Story of “Why Fake Trees are the BEST Trees!”

"I grew up with the wonderful tradition of cutting down our own trees…hiking through snow up to our knees in search of that perfect one. When really after 3 hours of cold, wet snow – anything will do. My husband and I decided our first year of marriage to continue in that tradition and envisioned many happy years of visiting the tree farm, or trekking out in the woods to pick out our family tree. So our first Christmas, we decided to visit our local tree farm in search of the perfect tree.

It had been an unusually warm fall/winter season, which should have our first indicator to prepare for some….well, company.

We found a lovely 8 foot tree (since we had vaulted ceilings) and cut the tree, had it shaken (to make sure any dead needles (and possibly critters) fell out, strapped the tree on and traveled home to decorate our beautiful find.

Bliss, I tell you. Pure bliss.

Almost one week went by with our lovely tree fully decorated in our living room, white lights twinkling. One night before I was getting in bed, I saw a strange shadow – almost a flicker, on the wall. It looked like a wisp of smoke. I quickly ran to the tree, searched and sniffed it, but didn’t see any fire.

But I did see a teeny, tiny bug. He was so cute.

And then I saw all of his brothers and sisters emerging from the center of the tree. Hundreds and hundreds of them. Baby praying mantis’ had hatched from our tree and were crawling out to sit and warm on the white lights of the tree.

Sweet, no?

My husband and I quickly yanked all the ornaments and lights off the tree and threw it outside onto the deck and we pulled the vacuum cleaner out to madly suck up all the little critters that were now climbing the walls to our vaulted ceiling – towards the warmer air. We were standing on the back of the couch, trying desperately to reach the ones that were high, high up. Protected species or not, those critters were getting out of my house!

We later found some “safe” pesticides, sprayed the tree down and let it stay nice and cold outside for a few days. We removed the rest of the nest and then brought the tree back inside to decorate it. Again.

Two days later, another nest hatched.

We were pros at stripping a tree, so it landed on the deck in record time and we didn’t even bother taking the lights off this time. We just figured the neighbor’s kids would love the sight and bought new lights.

And a fake tree to go along with them.

Despite the fact that I pictured out family taking an annual trip to the tree farm, we still do make a trip…to our basement. To pull out our beautiful pre-lit 8 foot tree. Which can be put together in less than 5 minutes.

No bugs included."

I have to say that story gave us the creeps but it was funny thinking about you guys trying to strip the tree as fast as you could, TWICE!

We want to thank EVERYONE who participated in our contests this week. We hope you enjoyed them and will check back to our blogs often as we plan on doing more in the future!

Heidi, Kelly, Shannon

Winner of Thursday's contest

Congratulations to Jolanthe who was the very first to respond to Thursday's Contest with ALL of the correct lyrics!
She won a $15 PayPal certificate.

THANKS to ALL for playing!

Contest # 5 Friday

We have had you use your memory, test your poetic skills, and even upload pictures of your Christmas trees this week. Today is the last day of our week of contests and we wanted it to be worth even more for all your efforts this week. Today's winner will receive a $25 ecard to Target, Wal-Mart, PayPal, OR Barnes and Noble! All you have to do is tell us about the funniest thing that has ever happened to you or your family during the holidays. This could be about anything pertaining to the holidays such as something that happened while you were shopping, baking, opening presents, visiting relatives, etc. We all have some memorable moments in our past and we'd love to hear about yours! Email us your stories at info@fortunatelyforyoubooks.com . The one that makes us laugh the hardest (and we could use it after this long week) gets the prize!

~Heidi

Contest #3 Winner

There were so many great ACRONYMS to choose from. I do not know why we don't use this tool more often. It is a great way to record thoughts. They give guidance to those who need a creative kick, and boundaries to those souls who can write and write but need focus. I found myself jotting down things with these three words all day. Only mine didn't turn out as well as the ones that were sent in. Here are some honorable mentions that I liked:

Heidemarie sent this one-
Christ is the reason we can give!
Home is the place we learn to care as we live!
Right now is a good time to learn something new.
If you enjoy learning as you live, you'll fit right in with our crew.
Surely something we'll be able to learn from you;
Teaching and learning go hand in hand,
Maybe therefore we can help you stand.
And cause it's winter we might long for the sun,
Still, till next year we can have a whole lot of holiday, snowy fun!

Here is Lara's-
Chaotic
Hectic
Religious
Inspiring
Soul-feeding
Traditional
Monumentous
Adoring
Spiritual

and thoroughly FUN!!!!!

But the winning ticket goes to Cathy for her acronym that shows just where her kids got that creative spirit! School sure did change up for the month for her as the kids seem to be rifling through the recipe box in hopes that baking will replace two crucial classes. This made me chuckle. And Cathy even gave us an extra acronym just for fun. Way to go, Cathy! Maybe you should buy a kids cookbook with your money! They seem anxious to get in the kitchen.
Here is the winning acronym-
Children
Holding
Recipes
In hopes that
Sugar cookies will count
Toward
Math
And
Science

and here was her freebie acronym that wasn't really theme related but fun-
Fat
Elves
Singing
Tunes
In
Velvet
Espadrilles

Thanks for playing, ladies.

THURSDAY CONTEST #4

So we've seen how lucky you are, how well documented, and how creative you are. Now we're going to test your memory. (I KNOW, I KNOW--I would so fail--My business partners need not snicker) But today I'm testing YOUR memory and not mine! {phew!} I will be giving you 10 lyrics with missing words. The lyrics can be old Christmas songs or new. The first to send me a correct list gets the prize. If no one gets all of them, the first to get the most right will win! The prize: A $15 gift ecard to Target, Wal-Mart, PayPal, OR Barnes and Noble. Please send your answers to:
info@fortunatelyforyoubooks.com

1. Please have snow and ___________ and presents on the tree.

2. Bobby wants a pair of skates. Suzy wants a __________.

3. The joy of Christmas stays here inside ______.

4. But if you really hold me tight, all the way ________ I'll be warm.

5. All is ______, all is bright.

6. Guide us to thy _________ light.

7. City street lights, even ______ lights blink a bright red and green.

8. The looked up and saw a ________.

9. ________ move quickly to their journey's end.

10. And may all your Christmases be ___________.

I wanted to keep going but thought I'd better give you a break! :o) I absolutely love Christmas songs and I do listen all year long. Hope your memory comes through for you today!

~Kelly

Contest #3 Wednesday

No luck here today! This will take some thought and your creativity. Make an acrostic from any of these words:
CHRISTMAS
HOLIDAYS
FESTIVE

The theme is "Homeschooling in December". I chose this because I am interested in seeing what school looks like in your home in this crazy month. Do you keep the same schedule? Do you try new things? Do you do a whole year's worth of art class in one month? Are you finding a lot of your subjects are falling under the "lifeskills" section?

School in my home changes. My sons have figured out how everything applies to education. "Mom, this counts as.........." . Sometimes they are right on the money, and other times I have to say "no, although that attempt may apply to creative writing if you put it on paper!" My youngest two sons are having mostly music this week. At one point I was laughing so hard I couldn't breathe. You would never have recognized Feliz Navidad, but boy, they sure played with some gusto there. Other times I wanted to whack them over the head. They were willing participants. It got them out of math class and it changed up our schedule enough to be festive.

Pick your acrostic and share how your school looks this month!
Winner receives a $15 ecard to their choice of the following stores:
Barnes and Noble
Target
Walmart
PayPal
(note- Friday's winner receives $25!)

Winner of Tuesday's Contest

Congratulations to devildogwife, winner of a $15 ecard to one of these great places: Target, Wal-Mart, PayPal, or Barnes and Noble! Note: Her husband and daughter put this tree up because she had surgery. How thoughtful and what an outstanding job they did. The train below your tree put you above the rest for me! My business partner gave you the thumbs up because her son is a Marine so she heartily gave her "OORAH" to you.

I have no doubt that, should I have been absent, my Christmas Tree would have missing limbs, burned out lights, broken bulbs, and some kind of sticky substance sticking to the needles. Yep, that's my family.

Thank you to all of those who entered your tree for consideration! It was enjoyable to look at them all because they ALL were so very beautiful (and might I add, this was a very hard thing to choose). Please enter today's contest and it will test your creative abilities. Check back and play all week long at FFYB's Holiday Blog Contest!

~Kelly

Contest #1 Winner

Congratulations to Kathlyn Carico! You were the first one to get the most answers correct.

Kelly will be contacting you this morning to find out where you would like to spend your money!

Thanks for playing!

I am not sure what this says about us, but here are the answers:

Heidi- Santa Clause is Coming to Town, ladyfingers, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

Kelly- White Christmas, Peanut Blossoms, Silver Bells

Shannon- Elf, Kolaczkis, Santa Baby

It is kind of funny, as Heidi is our proper one, Kelly is our traditional one, and I seem to be the loosey goosey of the group.

Contest Day #2 TUESDAY

Nothing puts us in a holiday mood better than a beautifully decorated Christmas tree. The memories we have from being together with our family and putting up all of our favorite ornaments is something we think of every year while putting up this year's tree.

For our contest today (TUESDAY), send us a picture of your Christmas Tree. Email it to:

info@fortunatelyforyoubooks.com

If you haven't put your tree up yet, a picture from previous years will be just fine! Don't worry about people being in your picture either, just as long as there is a clear view of your tree, it will be accepted. We will pick our favorite tree picture and email you Wednesday Morning if you are the winner ! The winner gets his/her choice of a $15 ecard from either Target, Barnes and Noble, Wal-Mart, or PayPal.

Here is a list of the abilities you will need to win something this week!

1st day- luck
2nd day- documentation

3rd day- creativity

4th day- memory

5th day- humor

Previous Winners are welcome to play again in any contest. You have until MIDNIGHT EST to get your entries in each day. A new contest will be posted between midnight and 8 A.M.

Remember to check everyday this week and play our Holiday Blog Contests. You'll have fun and a great chance of winning some extra holiday cash. Who couldn't use that?

Contest #1 Monday

Contest #1-Monday
We all have our favorite things at holiday time. Some people will sit and watch the same movie every year at the same time, all the while the kids groaning and moaning. Secretly and deep down, everybody counts on this time and while they may know every line and every move coming on the screen, they consider this to be their tradition and their family favorite.
Below are an assortment of Shannon, Heidi, and Kelly's favorite things. You are given a list to choose from. Put as many into the correct order as you can.
Send us your answers to:
info@fortunatelyforyoubooks.com
The winner will get their choice of a $15 ecard to their choice from the following stores:
Target
Walmart
Barnes and Noble
PayPal Account
PLACE THE FOLLOWING IN CORRECT ORDER

1. Favorite Holiday/Show Movie:
Shannon-
Heidi-
Kelly-
(options: White Christmas, Elf, Santa Clause is Coming to Town)

2. Favorite Holiday Cookie:
Shannon-
Heidi-
Kelly-
(options: lady fingers, peanut blossoms, kolaczkis)

3. Favorite Holiday Song:
Shannon-
Heidi-
Kelly-
(options: Santa Baby, Silver Bells, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas)

Just send your note to our email box and at the end of the day we will notify the winner and give them their choice of gift options.
Thanks for playing!

FFYB

'TIS THE SEASON!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, everywhere you go.

Don't you just love the holidays?!

We are in a festive mood here at Fortunately For You Books, and we have some fun things planned.

Our first contest starts Monday, December 8th.

Winner gets to choose a $15 ecard to Amazon.com, Target.com, Wal-Mart.com, Barnes and Noble.com, OR PayPal.com!

Show up early Monday morning for the game of the day!