For this review, we were gifted specialized codes to try out CashCrunch Careers, a career pathway quiz that is said to give insight to your future from CashCrunch Games. This insightful quiz was interesting and insightful in the end. It’s a great way to help find a better career path.

CashCrunch Games is a fun little site that focuses on helping you learn about money in a fun way. The site features several games like CashCrunch Junior and CashCrunch 101. There are teacher resources, things for kids, an encouraging blog and so much more available to view on the website. There’s even a gazette available that shares great tips on finance. Videos are available as well.

We were given four codes to use with the CashCrunch Careers quiz. This quiz is designed to help you discover the best career path possible for your future. Now, it’s generally used for those who are still in high school and who are looking to find their future at the stage of life that people generally don’t know what’s next. As a teen, the possibilities are endless and the future is wide open. Teens are typically ready to conquer the huge world and not afraid to step out in finding themselves.

I thought this quiz would be a great experience for my two teens, my husband and I to give a try. It never hurts to see what career might work great for you and see where your future will lead you or what you can change so that you can have a better future, even as an adult. Learning new things can happen at any age, right?!

As I mentioned, we were gifted 4 codes which I began setting up over the review period. The first thing I noticed when I began to sign us up is that we each needed a separate email for each log-in and code. Generally, my kids and I use the same email so this was a bit inconvenient but since I have 3 emails of my own and my husband has his own, I made it work. Still it would have been nice to have been able to use the same log-in and just had 4 accounts within that one log-in to view.

As we each logged in, we were prompted to immediately complete the quiz. It was a long list of traits, basically. I lost count at how many but around 75 or so. You simply chose the trait that fit you best. I found that not all of the traits fit me well, or my children as we worked on completing the quiz for them, or even my husband. The great things about us as humans is that we all have different traits but still we did our best to choose what we each thought represented our selves the best.

The quiz was really easy. You simply click one word or the other and followed the prompts going through it page. Then at the end of the quiz you hit submit.

The end results come after the final submit. Here you will find out what all those choices you made show about you and what choices to make for a better future to help give you a better direction for your career choices. There is some fairly helpful information provided.

The set up is the same for all results. It begins Hello (Your Name here) and tells you that you’ve completed the quiz. Then it shares a bit about Career Work Styles, the things your responses show about you like mine said I work well with others and enjoy team efforts (I do and I don’t). Emma’s said she was friendly and helpful. Win’s said he was skilled at bringing others together. Don’s said he has an intuitive understanding of others.

Following this section comes the Motivators and De-motivators section which summarizes more about your responses. Mine said that I am easy to get along with and enjoy associating with other members of the organization. Emma’s said she was friendly and non-confrontational. Win’s said he enjoys routine. Don’s said that he doesn’t take criticism well but enjoys putting forth effort to complete a project.

The next section of the quiz shares attributes found through your answers. Each of ours were similar but the ends varied. Mine showed that I was dependable and trustworthy, while Emma’s showed she was charming and team-oriented. Both are fairly accurate.

The last section matches you to jobs by ranking which best fit to your personality. There are 20 various choices suggested. I was matched to a General and Operations Manager position. Emma was matched to a Advertising and Promotions manager. Win was matched with a Gaming Manager. Don was matched with Administrative Service Manager.

What did we learn? We found that we have a lot in common through the profiles. We also learned that we’d all do well in management positions, just differing types.

If you’d like to find out your own career path, simply visit CashCrunch Games to try one of their choices or go directly to CashCrunch Careers to find a career path that fits you!

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Book Title: Priscilla’s Escape

Author: Diane Craver

Genre: Amish Romance, Contemporary

Release date: March 23, 2018

When faith and freedom collide, mistakes made in the past may decide the future.

Twenty-year-old Priscilla King is unsure about joining the Amish Church and wants to use her rumspringa freedom to paint beach landscapes. She’s been offered a two-month-long nanny position in Siesta Key, Florida by an author on a tight writing deadline. The opportunities presented are more than a little tempting for Priscilla, even if it means disappointing her parents and leaving her new boyfriend.

Stephen Hertzler grew up in an Amish family, but, like Priscilla, he’s undecided about joining the church. He loves Priscilla and wants to marry her, though he knows she’s not ready to decide about anything other than her summer plans. His biggest worry is that she’ll meet someone else in Florida and forget him.

When Priscilla’s parents sabotage her part-time job at a local fabric store to dissuade her from following a “worldly lifestyle” in taking the nanny position in Florida, Priscilla is distraught. She knows she would regret not taking this chance. Leaving a note, she sneaks out in disobedience of her parents’ wishes.

Free to paint, dreams she’s never fully envisioned before seem within reach…but at what price?

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About the Author

Diane grew up on a farm outside Findlay, Ohio, and she often acted out characters from her own stories in the backyard. In high school Diane would read during classes and hide a novel in front of her in a propped-up textbook. After her high school graduation, she attended Ohio State University. Then Diane became a schoolteacher and play director. She met her husband while teaching at an orphanage, and they married three years later. It took her that long to convince him she was the one for him! While raising their family in southwestern Ohio, Diane started writing nonfiction and was published. Later she decided it would be a nice escape to write fiction. Diane was blessed with five daughters and one son. Two daughters were born with Down syndrome and live with Diane and her husband. Their other children live close by in Ohio so that’s wonderful. They also have four precious grandchildren. Diane published through a variety of houses. Several years ago, she decided to self-publish her books, so requested the rights back to her previously published stories. From the beginning, she enjoyed self-publishing her Amish romances. Diane gives thanks to God daily for her many blessings.

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Hello, Reader Friends,

Priscilla’s Escape is Book 3 in The Bishop’s Daughters Series. This story features Priscilla King, and she is the fourth child born to Amos and Lillian King. You may remember meeting Priscilla in my Dreams of Plain Daughters Series. After I finished writing this series, I decided to continue to write about the Amish and English characters living in Fields Corner, Ohio. They became family and real to me.

The King family have six children with only one son. That is like our Craver family because we have five daughters and one son. Through the years, our family has faced certain challenges with two daughters being born with Down syndrome. Although Priscilla doesn’t have any siblings with special needs, she feels overlooked in her family. It’s like she’s invisible to her parents, especially to her father. He doesn’t understand her passion for painting but favors Molly’s talent for quilting. Everyone needs a cheerleader in their corner at times, and Priscilla is no different. Fortunately, her new boyfriend, Stephen, listens to her dream to paint beach pictures. He even understands her desire to wait to join the church.

All families suffer some type of hardships. It does seem like some more than others. A family’s faith in God gives them hope in their daily lives. Whatever the level of the pain, staying close to God and listening to his voice, gives us the strength to survive. The King family have their share of tragedies, but their faith reminds steadfast. When Priscilla leaves their close-knit unit, they all reach out to her by letter and phone calls. Her siblings even tell their father that he needs to share his secret with Priscilla.

I hope you will enjoy reading Priscilla’s Escape. There is a lot happening in the King family, so you can catch up with your favorite romantic couples in this novel. If you love going to the beach as much as I do, I think you’ll love reading about Priscilla’s beach experiences – some are good, and others are not.

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My Review:

This is an intriguing story of a young girl who dreams to be more than she is. She’s not sure the Amish lifestyle is for her, and though she deeply values the things her family stands for, she longs to simply paint and be herself. Her parent’s try to push her into the life they wish for her but instead end up pushing her to disobey and choose her own way, risking everything in the process. Will she find her way? Is Florida the best option for her life? The sounds of the ocean call to her soul and lead her to a different path than she ever thought possible but is it the right one in the end of things?

This is a great book and one you are sure to not want to miss!

I Know It is a wonderful website that encourages Math practice for kids online. Created from the same people behind SuperTeacherWorksheets.com, iKnowIt.com encourages learning in a new way. It really is a fun way to help encourage your kids to learn. And they offer a 60 day FREE TRIAL!

I Know It is a interactive website that helps your student or child improve math skills as they learn. This is not a full curriculum site but is a wonderful supplement for math education that helps to encourage your student to process, learn and build upon the skills they are learning in Math through the curriculum that they are already using either at home or in their classroom. Combined with their current study, this fun site helps the child practice what they are learning as they go.

The website is developed to be used with kids from Kindergarten to 5th grade. It’s digital and interactive with lots of fun characters to encourage your student’s learning as they play. It is common core aligned and encourages students to learn at their own level, building with them as they go.

Family pricing is available for the site. It is $90 per year for one parent and four children. Additional children can be added for $8 per child per year. There is also a school and district option for purchase, as well as a single-teacher membership available.

They also offer a 60 day FREE trial!

The website works great on all devices but is a limited program on phones. You can play it on your tablet, laptop, iPad or similar device easily. It is easy to set up and use.

To set up the program, simply create a parent account. In your parent account, you will be able to set up your account, as well as those of your students. My Account will show you the details of the account. For instance, I have a family account which it says in my information. This area also shows me when my account began, was renewed and when it will end. It also shows me lesson and email settings which I can change as needed.

The next tab shows me my children’s accounts. Here I can see the grade levels they are working in along with their ability levels. I can check their progress, see when they last logged in, see which lessons they completed and which they haven’t finished. I can also see their total scores and assess how they are learning, which skills need more practice and what skills they are doing best or worst in.

As a parent, I am able to assign lessons on skills that my children need to learn. I can choose from different grade levels, pick the lesson and assign each student a different lesson to practice or the same lesson if needed. I can remove or add lessons as the student works through the program as well. I can also view their progress on lessons, both individual progress and assignment progress to see how they are doing and how many more assignments need to be completed for them to finish the work assigned.

As a parent, I can test out and work through the animations and lessons as well to see how they work and gauge how much interest my students may have. It’s a great review of early math skills for adults as well as children. I hope to see it advance to older grade levels and also other subjects at some point in the future.

So my older kids are a little too old for this one seeing as they are both in high school but I did set them up for the higher level of the program to help them review regular math skills. They found it fun and helpful and have said if they had this program when they were younger they’d have enjoyed it a lot.

My younger two kids got the most use from the program because they fall in the age range for the lessons. The lessons were easy enough to follow along with. There is a button that reads the program to your child so they can listen to the lesson and respond accordingly. This was great for Jack who is still learning to read.

Both kids were able to work on the lessons with little input from me. The levels are appropriate for each grade and it is easy to make changes if the program seems to be too much for your child in your account settings. When your child makes a mistake with their answer, the correct answer is shown and the reason why is also shown so your child can easily see their mistake. When your child gets the answer right, the I Know It robot will dance to encourage them through animation to move to the next question. Hints are also available for your child to use as they work through the questions.

This program is really great for lesson review and boosting math skills. It’s simple but fun to use and very encouraging, especially for young kids which it is designed to encourage. Your family will love the program!

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Book Title: The Christmas Prayer

Author: Wanda E. Brunstetter

Genre: Historical Christmas Romance

Release date: September, 2018

Beloved, bestselling author of Amish fiction, Wanda E. Brunstetter takes readers on a journey in 1850 along the California Trail.

Only the brave—or foolhardy—would attempt a cross-country journey late in the season. Three wagons meet up in Independence, Missouri, in April 1850, and their owners decide to keep forging ahead despite many setbacks and delays. December finds them in the Sierra Nevada Mountains when a sudden snowstorm traps them, obscuring the trail.

Cynthia Cooper is traveling with her mother and the man she has promised to marry. But as Christmas is upon them and they are hunkered down in a small cabin, she is forced to reevaluate her reasons for planning to marry fellow-traveler Walter Prentice. When a widowed father heading to a California ranch and a gold prospector both show an interest in Cynthia, she weighs her dreams for marriage alongside her responsibility to care for her mother. Can love win over her timid heart?

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About the Author

New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Wanda E. Brunstetter is one of the founders of the Amish fiction genre. She has written close to 90 books translated in four languages. With over 10 million copies sold, Wanda’s stories consistently earn spots on the nations most prestigious bestseller lists and have received numerous awards.

Wanda’s ancestors were part of the Anabaptist faith, and her novels are based on personal research intended to accurately portray the Amish way of life. Her books are well-read and trusted by many Amish, who credit her for giving readers a deeper understanding of the people and their customs.

When Wanda visits her Amish friends, she finds herself drawn to their peaceful lifestyle, sincerity, and close family ties. Wanda enjoys photography, ventriloquism, gardening, bird-watching, beachcombing, and spending time with her family. She and her husband, Richard, have been blessed with two grown children, six grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.

To learn more about Wanda, visit her website at www.wandabrunstetter.com.

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A cross-country journey in 1850 leads to high mountain danger—and romance.

Only the brave—or foolhardy—would attempt a cross-country journey late in the season. Three wagons meet up in Independence, Missouri, in April 1850, and their owners decide to keep forging ahead despite many setbacks and delays. December finds them in the Sierra Nevada Mountains when a sudden snowstorm traps them, obscuring the trail.

Cynthia Cooper is traveling with her mother and the man she has promised to marry. But as Christmas is upon them and they are hunkered down in a small cabin, she is forced to reevaluate her reasons for planning to marry fellow-traveler Walter Prentice. When a widowed father heading to a California ranch and a gold prospector both show an interest in Cynthia, she weighs her dreams for marriage alongside her responsibility to care for her mother. Can love win over her timid heart?

Find out in The Christmas Prayer from NY Times bestselling author Wanda E. Brunstetter.

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Cynthia’s Fried Apples

Instructions:

Without peeling, quarter as many tart apples as you would like. Lay apples close together, skin side down, in frying pan with salt pork fat or butter. Cover until well steamed then uncover and brown both sides, turning and watching closely to prevent burning.

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My Review:
Wanda E. Brunstetter is one of the best authors I have ever read. Her stories are so intriguing that even my Mother, who has never been a fan of Fiction story books, has started to read her stories. She is a true storyteller who creates story-lines that truly speak to your heart.

A Christmas Prayer is just one of many of these stories that we have come to love so much. This story is set in 1850 in the Winter, of course, across the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Cynthia Cooper, her mother and the man who she’s pledged her hand in marriage to, head through the mountains to find hope in a new place. Only Cynthia isn’t so sure this is what she’s meant to have in her life and a widowed stranger leaves her questioning her choices on this path as she trudges ahead. A surprise twist leaves Cynthia confused but able to follow her heart in the end, bringing forth a simple Christmas miracle and a love that will last all time.

This is a smaller sized book with a shorter story filling the pages. It’s just a simple, warm read for the chilly Winter days. Grab yourself a hot cup of cocoa and enjoy!