Jodi's Journey

Awesome Book Giveaway Of 'The Widow Of Saunders Creek' By Tracey Bateman

I am going to do something a little bit different on my blog. I am going to host a book giveaway. This is an awesome book I posted my review of this book here. This is the type of book you can't put down. Please enter below, the more points you get the better chance you have of winning! I would like to give something back to my readers (friends), a way of saying thank you for being faithful, folowers, readers, and my wonderful blogosphere friends, that I am so thankful to each one of you for many different reasons. Good luck!

Overview: A grief that knows no boundary. A love without any limit. A need that doesn’t end at death.

Corrie Saunders grew up in a life of privilege. But she gave it all up for Jarrod, her Army husband, a man she knew was a hero when she vowed to spend her life with him. She just didn’t expect her hero to sacrifice his life taking on an Iraqi suicide bomber.

Six months after Jarrod’s death, Corrie retreats to the family home her husband inherited deep in the Missouri Ozarks. She doesn’t know how to live without Jarrod—she doesn’t want to. By moving to Saunders Creek and living in a house beloved by him, she hopes that somehow her Jarrod will come back to her.

Something about the house suggests maybe he has. Corrie begins to wonder if she can feel Jarrod’s presence.

Jarrod’s cousin Eli is helping Corrie with the house’s restoration and he knows that his dead cousin is not what Corrie senses. Eli, as a believing man and at odds with his mystically-oriented family members, thinks friendly visits from beyond are hogwash. But he takes spirits with dark intentions seriously. Can he convince Corrie that letting go of Jarrod will lead to finding her footing again— and to the One she can truly put her faith into?

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Feb 4, 2010

Why So Much Violence In Kids Movies?

My grandchildren spent 3 days with me here a short time back, and of course they bring their movies with them because Nana don't have very many children's videos. Anyway I was in the kitchen this one evening, and Papa had stuck in a movie for the grand babies to watch to try to keep them out of my hair for a bit, while I was getting dinner ready.

Well I am in the kitchen just going to town on this, and that, and slicing this or that, and I was sort of listening to the movie off and on that they were watching. Well I hear I hate something or other, I can't remember the exact words this character said but I remember hearing the word hate, and thinking to myself did I just hear that? So I started to listen a little more closely to what the character said, and sure enough he said the word '"hate". My first thought was, wow this is a kids movie?

The DVD was part of the 'Thomas The Train' series. But I mean come on, my two oldest grandchildren are 3, and one is going to be 5 years old at the end of this month. But thoughts went to why do they make such movies for this age group with a word such as 'hate'? They are learning at this age and curious as heck. So I started to get a bit curious as to who wrote this series, and come to find out it was Rev. W. Awdry, and then his son Christopher Awdry wrote them from 83 - 96.

I know allot of children's videos have words such as hate in them, and even children being mean to other children (teasing), etc. I started to think back on the movies (cartoons) I had as a child, and I watched cartoons such as Roadrunner which was pretty violent when I thought about it, Sylvester and Tweety bird, lol! I guess my question to myself, was why do we say such things in movies, cartoons, etc. for children? Why does there have to be violence in them? Or words such as hate? Or kids teasing others, or the bully taking the kids lunch from him.

Where is the love man? But then if we had just movies, cartoons, etc. that were just mushy so to speak, people would not buy them or watch them would they? There has to be some kind of excitement such as something violent, such as Roadrunner getting smashed by a rock, or Thomas The Train runs into some sort of trouble, and someone hates that it happened to poor Thomas or whatever. Sylvester running around trying to eat poor lil Tweety bird, lol! I mean I realize this has been this way at least all of my life and I am sure as well as my ancestors before me. It just made me sit and think about it, I really am not quite sure why but I did, lol!

So what do you think?