Weekend Links {New Book Review Blog & Why I'm Walking Around with a Bottle of Tea Tree Oil Shoved Up my Nose}

Have you escaped the flu?  So far we've not fallen prey but I've been doing everything this post has told me to do including sniffing a bottle of tea tree oil when I'm in a crowd:

First I will say that I do not believe that getting a flu shot is the best prevention for the flu, as we are consistently and continually told. In my opinion, a person is worse off after receiving the flu shot. There are two main reasons that I do not receive nor recommend the flu shot.
Read Three Natural Ways to Prevent the Flu at Little Natural Cottage


My family, well some of us, have started a Book Review Blog.  My husband, myself and our four oldest children are posting short reviews of books we read.  It's called Read {Moore} Good Books.  Clever, eh? Our selfish motive is that we need 30 subscribers to this blog in order to join Booksneeze. Yes, we want free stuff.


When we are tempted as parents to bribe our children, to pacify them while they are sinning, or to postpone the inevitable manifestation of sin, what we are doing is not indulging the children. That is the common assumption. Giving them M& M’s instead of dealing with the refusal to get in the car is an example of a parent being self-indulgent. Forget the children being pacified – you are trying to pacify yourself.  A great post over at the Femina blog centered on Proverbs 17:27. Are you a calm mama?