Some of my favorite things « Mom loves being at home

Plugged In – a website for parents to read reviews on movies, TV shows, and music. I use it to decide if something is appropriate for my children to see or hear.

Half.com and/or eBay - a great place to find books, movies, CD’s, etc. at great prices! Also a great place to sell the stuff you have lying around the house that you don’t need anymore!

Kraft.com – has great recipes and even grocery lists and menus for the week that go together – makes it really easy!!

Student News Daily – a current events page for high school students – great information and news!

Urban Legends – a place to find out if that e-mail you got telling you something you’re just not sure about is true.

Internet Movie Data Base – find all kinds of information on your favorite movies and actors!

Bug Me Not – get access to that article you want to read without giving out your personal e-mail address!
-a great place to get books you want by swapping for CDs that you don’t want!

– a great place to get CDs you want by swapping for CDs that you don’t want!

– a great place to get DVDs you want by swapping for DVDs that you don’t want!

World Magazine – current headlines and stories

Bible Gateway – a great place to read, search, and study Scripture

And some of my favorite movies:

I LOVE to watch movies! I have a pretty big collection of movies and I’m always adding to it – when I can find used, cheap ones that is! I’ve included my favorites on this list – scan the list and see if there’s one you haven’t seen – hopefully you’ll like it as much as I did! You can look these up on IMDB to get all kinds of information on them or Plugged In to get a review and find out about the content (not all movies are in this database though).

FAMILY MOVIES (my kids are 14 & 11 and we’ve watched these together)

Kicking and Screaming

Snow Dogs

Daddy Day Care

Cheaper by the Dozen

Cheaper By the Dozen 2

Racing Stripes

Elf

The Princess Bride

Christmas with the Kranks

The Santa Clause

Santa Clause 2

The Santa Clause 3 – The Escape Clause

Facing the Giants

Night at the Museum

GREAT “BASED ON A TRUE STORY” MOVIES (I love true story movies!)

Dreamer – Inspired By a True Story

This is the music that I love right now:

I wrote a post about a song that I love and it seems a lot of people have been interested in it so I thought I’d share some more of my favorites here (without the lyrics though ) I pretty much only listen to contemporary Christian music so unless otherwise stated, that’s the genre these are in. (I will come back periodically and add more as I think of more that I love!)
Selah

The David Crowder Band

Nichole Nordeman

BarlowGirl

Jeremy Camp

dandelionmom, on January 18th, 2008 at 8:48 am Said:

Have you read any of the Mrs. Polifax mysteries?? or seen Secondhand Lions (the movie?) I think they fit in really well with your taste! We HAD to read Eragon and Eldest by Paolini since he was a Jr High homeschooler when he wrote them!

momlovesbeingathome, on January 18th, 2008 at 10:03 am Said:

Hello and welcome, dandelionmom! I have seen Secondhand Lions and did like it. I have not read Mrs. Polifax nor have I read the Paolilni books. My son has read the Paolini books though and really liked them. I’ll have to look for the Mrs. P mysteries. I’ve never heard of them. Thanks so much for sharing!!

dandelionmom, on January 18th, 2008 at 11:06 am Said:

I think the first one is The Unexpected Mrs. Polifax Dorothy Gilman is the author. Think Miss Marple using karate in the CIA globe-trotting solving mysteries, rescuing seasoned spies, matchmaking (!)all while wearing outrageous floral hats! check out at least 2 at a time-it is a serious bummer when you finish one!

momlovesbeingathome, on January 18th, 2008 at 1:37 pm Said:

That sounds like something I would really enjoy!! Thanks for passing along the info.