Welcome to this week’s Memo Monday. I hope you will spend a few moments and look at the things going on around the blogworld.  As always if you anything you’d like to add to Memo Monday, you’re welcome to email!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

>>> The Duggar Family is Expecting #18 Have you heard of The Duggar Family of Arkansas? Check out the The Duggar Family Website.

>>> This week The 50th Homesteading Carnival was hosted at Quiverfull Family! Don’t forget to add your THC Icon to your sidebar!

>>> The 125th COH will be held this week at Po Moyemu–In My Opinion! Please make sure to stop by and check it out for great homeschooling ideas and experiences from other homeschoolers.

>>> Homeschool Blog Awards is getting ready to open up the May & June 2008 Swap! This is something fun for older homeschoolers and moms to do. You have a swap sister who you send a $5 gift package to and they’ll do the same. A great way to get to know new people online and makes some friends!

>>> Stop over at Homespun Life to view the Share Your Faith Carnival. Please join us by sending in the following information to me through the Blog Carnival Site at our very own Share Your Faith Carnival page.

>>> Watch out for the contest Amanda @ The Daily Planet is having, where you could win a Senior ‘08 tshirt from the Homeschool Boutique.

>>> Sisterlisa was honored to be able to have an over-the-phone interview with Kirk Cameron’s Leading Lady, Erin Bethea, from Fireproof today! Go on over to Apples of Gold, and read about the conversation she had with her this morning.

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT:

“When life doesn’t seem like a bed of roses remember who wore the thorns.”
— Unknown

NOAH WEBSTER DICTIONARY 1828

BOOK, n. [Like the Latin liber, book signifies primarily bark and beech, the tree being probably named from its bark.]

A general name of every literary composition which is printed; but appropriately, a printed composition bound; a volume. The name is given also to any number of written sheets when bound or sewed together, and to a volume of blank paper, intended for any species of writing, as for memorandums, for accounts, or receipts.

1. A particular part of a literary composition; a division of a subject in the same volume.

2. A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and expenditures, &c.In books, in kind remembrance; in favor.