Mother’s Day Giveaway Day Five! The Red Headed Hostess

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Alright…  here we are at day five of the giveaway!

Remember that one lucky mom will get all of these prizes announced!

Today’s first prize added to the grand package is:

 

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The Beginning of Better Days:  Divine Instruction to Women from the Prophet Joseph Smith

(with personal insights from Sheri Dew and Virginia H. Pearce)

Doesn’t this sound fantastic?

This is part of the description:

n 1842, the Prophet Joseph Smith took time to attend several meetings of the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo and give personal instruction to the women there. He did this at a time of great personal turmoil, when persecutions were raging and his responsibilities were heavy. He did it at a time when society barely acknowledged women as having any kind of status at all. On six separate occasions, he taught the women personally about their privileges, their opportunities, their obligations, and the blessings the Lord had in store for them in His kingdom.

The Beginning of Better Days includes Joseph Smith’s six timeless sermons to the women of Nauvoo, along with personal essays from Sheri Dew and Virginia H. Pearce that help us better understand the sermons and their relevance for Latter-day Saint women today. “We have attempted to share a little about our own processes of discovery regarding the sermons,” writes the authors. “This is what worked for us. What works for you may be similar — or it may be completely different. The important thing is to dig in.”

I definitely need to have this in my personal library!!

Here is a little video about it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRpZd77UYwE&feature=player_embedded

The second prize today is:

Life is too Short by Connie Sokol
 The Life is too Short Collection (kindle edition)  by Connie Sokol

You will laugh so much when you read this!  It is full of true-to-women life experiences!  You will relate so much.  And she has this gift of taking moments that we all have (that we take too seriously) and giving you a better, lighter, healthier perspective.

I totally agree with this review about it: “I wasn’t even finished with Connie’s book before I felt renewed. Every woman needs to read this and be blessed by her wisdom and humor. Life can be a simpler and happier. She has the formula. Thank you, Connie!”

I have this and love it!!!!

 

And the third prize today:


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Eliza:  The Life and Faith of Eliza R. Snow
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I have this book, and I cannot wait to read it!

This is part of the description:

 

Eliza R. Snow is one of the most revered women in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We hear stories of her faith and strength, and we sing her beloved hymns. She was fondly known as “Zion’s Poetess” and also as “Presidentess,” because of her leadership of Relief Society and her role in forming and directing organizations for young women and children. She has remained a legend for generations of Latter-day Saints, but we know less about her “variegated life,” as she described it—the personal joys and sorrows brought about by unfolding events in the young Church of which she was a part.

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This intimate look at Eliza R. Snow, by authors Karen Lynn Davidson and Jill Mulvay Derr, reveals a more private side of this extraordinary woman. She emerges as a bright young poet in Ohio, a new convert to the restored Church, a seamstress, and a sharer in the persecutions and hardships of the early Saints. We see a member of the households of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, a dedicated temple worker, and a traveling Relief Society president with a zeal for teaching the gospel.

OK!  Are you just in awe of all of the amazing things in this giveaway!?  I mean… I want it for myself!  🙂

So now… we are up to fifteen prizes (and there is still one more day)

Monday:  Six Sisters’ Stuff’s Book and a $50 gift certificate to Little Miss Missy’s Etsy shop

Tuesday:  One Drop at a Time (By Elder M. Russell Ballard)  and The Story Hour Library: Developing Character (by Barbara Saylor)

Wednesday:  The Continuous Conversion (By Brad Wilcox), General Conference Study Journal, Topics Scripture Study Journal, Chapters Scripture Study Journal

Thursday: Covenant Motherhood (by Stephanie Dibb Sorenson), an 81/2 x 11 print of the Salt Lake Temple, Personal Revelation Study Packet, Plan of Salvation Clipart package

Friday: The Beginning of Better Days, The LIfe is Too Short Collection, Eliza

Saturday?

You can do something EVERY DAY to enter – so you can still go back and do Monday and Tuesday’s entries, it is not too late!

(Remember that if you are receiving this by email to come to my site (www.theredheadedhostess.com) to leave the comments so they are counted as entries)

For entries today, do one or all of the following:

(and leave a comment below saying you did… and leave separate comments – each one is an entry)

1-  Hop over to Connie Sokol’s Store and leave a comment sharing what your favorite product is

2-  Leave a comment sharing a book you have had for years from Deseret Book and still love (this is a hard one for me, but one that I LOVE is Symbols in Stone, Gate of Heaven, and the Lost Language of Symbolism, but I could go on and on).

3- Leave a comment sharing what Mother’s Day gift you like(d) to give to your moms  (I like giving flower baskets)

4- Go to my facebook page and share today’s post (about the giveaway) and come back and leave a comment saying you did

 

 

 

 

 

197 comments

  3. A bright, pretty potted geranium or begonia. Both my mom and my mom-in-law could make them grow and last for a long time. Unlike me. 🙂

  5. Oh I have and love the book tossing the guilt and finding the joy. Such an awesome book and it doesn’t bring you down like some if those books. It makes you laugh and smile. Her best comment is “it is not why you have done its what you have become” so awesome

  8. I would love I give my adopted mom a day of happiness. She lost her her husband a year ago and cannot find peace. So just one day of peace and happiness would be the bet gift I could give her. Something realistic a day or weekend at the beach that was there favorite spot. For my mother I would give her a date with her new husband so they didn’t have to stress about the money.

  14. Jesus the Christ, though a classic, would definitely be my fave from Deseret Books. I adore that book so much!

  15. My mom loves getting cards, so I try to make them extra special for Mother’s Day. And she always receives flowers and baked goods!

  19. I have had Christmas with the Prophets for several years (love!) and I bought most of my Work and the Glory books by Gerald Lund from DB as well.

  21. Wow! Hard to choose! I am most interested in “40 Days with the Savior” and “Faithful, Fit, and Fabulous” by Connie.

  22. I have a lot of books and talks on CD. (I believe this is also a book “When Your Prayers Seem Unanswered”) “The Fourth Watch” by Michael Wilcox is fantastic I listen to it VERY often.

  23. I really like to give my mom books. She loves to read and study. I love that about her. The best part is I can always borrow the book when she is done =)

  28. I really enjoy giving my mom some type of homemade gift. It is more enjoyable to come up with something creative.

  29. A Book from Deseret Book that I’ve had for years and still love is The Peace Giver by James Ferrell.

  31. My favorite product would be Create a Powerful Life Plan or 40 Day’s with the Savior or Life is Too Short.

  32. The book is a hard choice, I loved so many including those your list, but recently I have reread an oldie from when my oldest children(now in their 30s) were teen-agers, Jack Weyland’s If You Were a Pizza You would Be A Supreme, probably do to being called as YW
    President after 30 years in Primary.

  33. I sent my mom two photo books of pictures of from my recent trip to her Grandson’s graduation from UVU and her great-grandson, pictures are always her favorite. Accept of course visits or phone calls.

  40. ♥ I like giving my Mom something useful. She needs a non-scratch whisk for her nice pans, so I found one at IKEA. I’m adding a note that says, “I want to whisk (wish) you a Happy Mother’s Day.” ♥

  41. I like giving my mother amazon gift cards because she loves to read and I’m never sure what books she’s downloaded to her kindle or not. 🙂 She loves the gift!

  43. I love No One Can Take Your Place from Sheri Dew. I read it at a time when I needed to hear the words from the book. So today’s my birthday and I would love this prize for my b-day ;).

  45. A book that I have REALLY enjoyed from DB is: Bad Guys of the Book of Mormon by Dennis Gaunt. Our family read it last year for our summer book club. All ages enjoyed it! I’ve recommended it to my extended family, etc.

  51. My mom likes to listen to books and talks on CD’s. This year for mother’s day she is getting Wendy Watson Nelson’s CD- What would a Holy Woman Do?

  58. I have a really poor relationship with my mother. I think that is the main reason I have never liked mothers day much. I usually send a card.

  59. For the last few years I have been sending my mother a Willow Tree statue that represents something about her as a mother.

  60. I visitied Connie’s website. I would love to read either 40 Days with the Savior or Create a Powerful Life Plan.

  61. My favorite book from Deseret Book is Sweet and Simple Things by Sister Hinckley. I love the gentle yet truthful reminders of what is really important.

  64. David Ridges, The Book of Mormon made Easy. I also have all the other scriptures as well. These books helped me with understanding the scriptures. They are great books.

  65. I would give my mom a book and something cute to wear. She loved clothes. But she also loved to read and learn.

  66. I checked out Connie’s store and I think I could definitely benefit from reading “Create a Powerful Life Plan!”

  69. I keep Mother’s Day gifts quite simple. Usually a card and something my kids have created for Grandma.

  76. From Connie Sokol’s store, I would love 40 days with the Savior because little devotional books are such a great idea. But for a lighthearted summer read Caribbean Crossroads looks fun.

  78. One book I’ve had from Deseret Book for many years and still love to read and the lessons I learn from it are so wonderful is Stephen Robinson’s “Believing Christ: The Parable of the Bicycle and Other Good News.”

  79. I really want to read the book faithful fit and fabulous sometimes we just need to step back and start over

  80. My mom is 85 so no more nic nacks she loves getting a potted flower arrangement to keep in her patio all summer

  82. Hmmmm….I just went to Connie’s site…and I am interested in the 40 days with the savior! It sounds like it would go good with my 21 days closer to Christ book!

  84. Well the Mother’s Day gift I like for my mom this year is a get a way. She lives in an assisted living and I am taking her to lunch today! She loves getting out!! We are going to Gardner village to eat at archibalds and then get to go to pine needles….a material store. My mom loves material!

  87. So hard to choose just one of Connie’s books… I guess if I have to, I’d choose 40 Days With the Savior.

  93. I like to make sure my mom has a corsage to wear on Mother’s Day. That’s where I start with her gift.

  94. A book I love from Deseret is Sheri Dew’s,” No Doubt About It”. I have read and reread it. I’m like you though, my list could go on and on!!

  95. While I am sure I’d love Connie Sokol’s book about creating a life plan, I think I would first enjoy reading her “40 Days with Christ”.

  102. My favorite books/series I’ve had from Deseret Book for years is the Work and the Glory! I could read and read those books and never get tired of them. I have so many books I love, some I haven’t even gotten to yet 😉

  103. I love giving personalized items or prints of some sort. Anything that will make that person feel special because I thought of HER, not a generic gift. I’m all about being personal.

  106. I visited Connie Sokol’s store and it was difficult to pick just one. I’d like to read many of her books. The two I’d love to read are “Becoming a Christ-centered Woman” and “40 Days with the Savior”.

  109. For Mother’s Day I send two dozen assorted roses & a box of chocolates to my Mother and to my Mother-in-law. They both love flowers and chocolate! 🙂

  111. Two of my favorite Deseret Books are “Favorite Quotations from the Collection of Thomas S. Monson” and “Isaiah for Air Heads” by John Bytheway.

  115. For Mother’s day I like to spend time with my mom, shopping, lunch, etc. She gets to be at our house when we skype with our missionary son too.

  116. A gook that I’ve gotten from Deseret Book: Wow! Hard question. Still love Believing Christ by Stephen Robinson.

  119. I really like David A Bednar’s book Increase in Learning! Got this from Deseret Book and it is a good one!

  120. For Mothers Day I love giving my mom Storybooks that I have created! She loves seeing updated photos of her grandkids each year.

  125. From Connie Sokol’s site I couldn’t decide on one…. I would love to read 40 days with the Savior, Motherhood Matters, and Faithful, Fit and Fabulous.

  128. I love to give my mom memory books with pictures of her family in it for Mother’s Day. It means a lot to her and she cherishes each one.

  132. I guess the things she seems to like the best are heartfelt, sincere examples that she wasn’t a failure, and still isn’t. I like to help her see how much she means to me.

  133. I am so glad you mentioned Gate of Heaven. The day my daughter received her endowments in the Salt Lake Temple an older man came and sat down by us in the Celestial room. He told us if we really wanted to understand the Temple that was the book we needed to read very carefully! What a blessing he was!

  134. My mom passed away several years ago and I miss her so much. She LOVED good chocolate so every year I would order her a box of Godiva chocolates. They are delivered in dry ice! They always had a beautiful bow on the box. When she died I found a box with every bow from every Godiva box I had ever sent her. Now my daughters send me a box of Godiva………….I cry just thinking about it!

  136. I usually give my mom something from Kohl’s. I can usually spot on pick something I know she will LOVE.

  137. Beverly Campbell’s Eve and the Choice Made in Eden. I have read this book 2 times now. I read it every time I start feeling that the world and yes even some members of the church see me as less than equal.

  138. My mom always loved anything we came up with, or made in school. I enjoyed giving her letters every year, letting her know how much I love her. Need to do that again soon.

  140. “Motherhood Matters” is tempting as I feel society looks down on us; which makes me feel like less than sometimes. But because I am an fitness instructor I gravitate towards “Faithful, Fit and Fabulous.”

  143. I visited Connie Sokol’s store and I recently bought 40 Days with the Savior, I am savoring it. I visited her site after seeing this, funny I hadn’t put two an two together until just now. Thanks

  144. My Mother has passed away now, but for Mother’s Day I loved to give her flowers to plant in her little flower garden out in front of the house.

  145. Like you Shannon, I have a zillion books from Deseret Book that are my favorite, choosing one is very difficult, I think my favorite is not that old though, it is “Women of the Old Testament”.

  147. I like to give flower baskets for Mother’s Day. Just went and bought one for mother-in-law, and one for me!

  150. My favorite book from Deseret is Eternal Marriage and the Parable of the Silverware by F. Burton Howard. My husband gave it to me while we were dating and I have cherished it!! An amazing read!!

  151. I love giving my mom gift certificates to go get pampered! She never goes and relaxes and it is fun to give her something I know she really needs which is just some “me” time!

  155. I love to give my mom giftcards, we don’t live close to each other so it’s easy to send and she can choose exactly what she wants.

  159. My favorite gift for my mother was a bird’s nest necklace with all of our birthstones the first year after my baby brother went on his mission and she was an empty-nester.

  160. I picked up a couple of fun books from Deseret Book a few years ago to help with our FHE. One was called “Short and Simple with a Treat” and the other (my favorite of the two) was called “Experiment Upon the Word.” The first one made it easier to get in the habit of FHE since it was easier to throw something together when we had the thought. The second is full of object lessons that the older kids have really appreciated (and to be honest, I love seeing some of them work too).

  161. i absolutely love the soft reply, i received it a few years ago from a friend, she had gotten it from deseret book. it is such a great book, i’ve read it several times and still always find new things that i need to apply to my life. i love that book ^^

  162. i wish i could give my mom a plane ticket so we could spend that day together. she lives on the east coast and i live on the west coast, i miss her.

  163. Since my Mom passed away when I was 7, I usually bring yellow roses (her favorite) to her gravesite.
    The past few years my favorite gift to give my grandmother (who raised me)& my mother in law has been homemade gifts. Last year was the family tree they built! Both ladies have 5 children, grandchildren, & now great-grandchildren….it was a fun project!!

  168. I love No One Can Take Your Place by Sheri Dew and I also love the book about Marjorie Pay Hinckley, Glimpses into the Life is the name I think….I don’t have one favorite.

  171. I would give my mom a flat of Daises for her yard and some tomato plants for her garden. She loves plants

  174. I love most of Connie’s stuff, she’s amazing. One of my favorites would be Becoming a Christ-centered Woman.

  179. Believing Christ is a great one I have had for years. Also, the Ariana series are great novels I love to reread!

  183. Hmm. A book I’ve had for years from Deseret Book and still love? I love the Best of Women’s Conference book.

  186. The Miracle of Forgiveness.

    Our Search for Happiness: An Invitation to Understand the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

    Peacegiver.

  190. I like to give my mother a handwritten letter with a favorite memory I have of her from my childhood.

  192. My favorite DB book is probably the work and the glory series… I learned so much about church history!

  193. I liked to give my mom hand drawn things as a child and now like to cook for her (though I don’t often get the chance!)

  195. My favorite Connie Sokol product might be the “faithful, fit, & fabulous”… I could use help getting back to basics 🙂

  196. I always like to give the mothers who influence my life something that has inspired me recently. This year it was a copy of Jenny Phillips talk Christ-like Mothering. I found so many helpful and inspiring ideas in it

  197. I have great grandparents still alive so my kids have great great grandparents that they know 🙂 So we have lots of grandmas/moms to celebrate. I always try to find something my kids can make them so that they feel special giving it to them. It gives them a great connection.

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