A Natural Noel & Herbal Nurturing {GIVEAWAY!}
Hello friends! Happy December 1st! To celebrate the first day of the merriest month of the year I have a fantastic giveaway for you!
If you’ve not yet been introduced to Michele at Frugal Granola, then you are missing out! Frugal Granola is a fantastic blog with tons of great insights into natural and sustainable living, with real, whole foods. Michele’s latest ebook is called A Natural Noel, and thanks to Michele’s awesome generosity, five redandhoney readers each have the opportunity to win a copy!
I had never known anything about the 12 Days of Christmas until I read Michele’s book and learned all about the Christian meaning behind it. I love her fun and family-oriented ways to celebrate this time of year. Starting with Advent, culminating in Christmas Day, continuing on with the 12 Days of Christmas, and ending with Epiphany – there is more than an entire month, rich with meaning beyond the celebrations on December 25th! What a beautiful way for a family to really emphasize Christ during this season!
From the book’s description:
Each year, as the glorious, abundant autumn draws to a close with a celebration of Thanksgiving, our family starts the journey toward Christmas. With the first Sunday of Advent, the season of anticipation begins… But what happens after December 25th? Even if we leave the decorations up, the carols playing, and the treats in the cookie jar, Christmas is done, right? But, no. Christmas has just begun! Celebrating the Twelve Days of Christmas, leading up to Epiphany (January 6th) is not a weird, religious obsession. It is a way to fully savor the joyous birth of Christ, and His many gifts!
This 33-page book is… A light-hearted look at the season, based on the popular historic song, “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” as we continue teaching and experiencing a faith-filled life as a family.
Each day contains a selection of activities, readings, and more to enrich your days, as you begin the new year, based on Deuteronomy 6:5, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.” (You don’t have to do them all! Choose a favorite.)
In addition to this fantastic and fun resource, Michele is also offering the same five winners a copy of her book Herbal Nurturing: A Family Healing & Learning Guide. This little gem of a resource is packed with knowledgeable recipes on homemade herbal remedies for a wide variety of issues. You can even check out the table of contents and some sample pages here!
From the book’s description:
As a “friend along the journey,” this 44-page book walks you through preparing basic herbal remedies for you and your family, from childbirth to arthritis, and everything in between!
Naturally prepare for cold/flu season, PMS, headaches, sunburns, postpartum, tummy aches, rashes, and more with over 30 recipes, additional homeopathic suggestions, and healthy-living tips.
Simply prepare syrups, salves, poultices, teas, and more- along with your children.
Fun “Learning at Home Options” for various ages are included along with the recipes, to assist you in teaching through everyday moments. Discover math, history, science, Bible, and more with the suggested activities, as you pursue wellness as a family!
Easy “Urgent Care Options” provide suggestions for natural solutions “on-the-go” or when you don’t have the time or energy to prepare homemade remedies.
Five lucky winners will each receive a copy of BOTH ebooks! Here’s how to enter:
1. Leave a comment on this post, telling me your plans for Christmas.
2. Share the link to this giveaway post on Facebook and/or Twitter.
3. Like Red and Honey and Frugal Granola on Facebook, and leave a comment telling me you did so.
4. Subscribe to Red and Honey and Frugal Granola and leave a comment telling me you did so (or, if you are already a subscriber, tell me that!).
That’s it! Four ways to enter. Contest closes one week from today, when winners will be announced!
I subscribe to Red and Honey and just subscribed to Frugal Granola!
shared on my chickadee swing page!
Oh, and you know I’m not on FB so….
I was not sure if we had to do all four options to win or just one so I did all four! I subscribed, shared, and liked both Frugal Granola and Red and Honey. For Christmas this year, well, it will be our first Christmas with our baby and we want to start traditions that will lay the foundation to express my husband and my different cultures and also begin to explain the true meaning of Christmas. We also have recently started to eat healthier so I am sure that Christmas will include lots of experiments with healthier versions of Christmas dinner
These sound great!
Our family of four will have a quiet, restful, fun Christmas at home together. There will be some presents, some tasty food, some singing, some Bible reading, and some napping… though probably not in that order.
Napping first! And lots of it
Wow, how neat! To be honest, I really didn’t know that THOSE were the 12 days of Christmas!! (Is that weird? I mean…did everyone else know it was from dec 25-jan 6th?) I feel like I’ve just stumbled onto some new and exciting information and I can’t wait to bring it into our family traditions! Very cool. Thanks Beth
I didn’t know ’til I read the ebook either
Don’t worry, you’re not alone! I don’t think the evangelical church does a very good job at observing or explaining the Christian calendar!
#4 Already subscribed to Red and Honey, just subscribed to Frugal Granola
I think that’s it! Thanks for the chance(s) to win, Beth!
#3 Already “liked” Red and Honey, just “liked” Frugal Granola on FB
#2 Just shared the link on FB – would love to have these books!
#1. Looking forward to spending a few days leading up to Christmas with my family, parents, siblings, nephews and niece
Christmas Day will be full of old-fashioned stocking-un-stuffing, gift-sharing, playing, cooking, eating and (hopefully!) napping… Really looking forward to the month ahead, some fun and meaningful things sprinkled throughout the weeks 
There’s more… I shared your link on Facebook! Thanks!
I subscribed to your blog as well… already a Frugal Granola subscriber
I liked Red and Honey on Facebook, and was already “liking” Frugal Granola very much!
We’re planning a quiet Christmas with family this year. We’ll be missing our usual trip this year to see my parents, but we have a holiday planned with them in late January. Thanks for a wonderful looking giveaway!
Our plans for CHristmas are to stay home for CHristmas and CHristmas eve, but visit family th week before.
I like frugal granola on fB
I like red honey on fB very exciting to learn about his site.
Ooh, those books look good! Christmas eve with my side of the family, morning at home and the rest of Christmas day with the hubby’s fam. Looking forward to starting our own traditions once our two year old is a little older!
Whooo! Nice Giveaway! No real special Christmas plans, cept hanging with you guys!! Only 16 days!!
Oh and I am already subscribed to you my friend!
Our Christmas will be flexible around the birth of our little one! This is my first Christmas ever not spent with my family so I am really going to miss them, but we are having good friends spend the holidays with us and I think that we might be just wee bit distracted anyways. We will be keeping a very simple Christmas, with just a few gifts and goodies. Just enjoying being together.
I shared the link to the giveaway on my FB page.
I like Frugal Granola and Red and Honey on FB.
We will celebrate the birth of Jesus with our family in our beautiful Wenatchee valley. We’ll be making holiday crafts with the kids, decorate a gingerbread house, memorize Scripture about the birth of Jesus.
We are participating in a “Lesson in Carols” service at our church on Christmas Eve, followed by driving around to look at Christmas lights, then home for new p.j.s and watching “It’s a Wonderful Life” together. Christmas morning we eat strata then open a few small gifts. Later, we bake a cake to celebrate Jesus’ birthday while staying in our p.j.s all day.
Shared on Facebook! Thanks for the chance.
Subscribed to Red and Honey!
I like both Frugal Granola and Red and Honey on facebook!
I subscribe to Frugal Granola!
Wow! What a fabulous givieway. We are celebrating Christmas a little differently this year. My husband is a police officer and has to work Chistmas Day. So we are planning lot of little family events throughout the season. Some of the ones I am most looking forward to are caroling at a local nursing home, serving at our Church’s community supper Christmas party, and suprising our neighgors with homemade treats on St Nicholas day. We are focusing more on the giving than receiving.
I just subscribed to Red & Honey!
I just subscribed to Red & Honey and Frugal Granola.
I subscribe to Frugal Granola!
Christmas is going to be a joyous day with the little ones; with an open door policy for family to come and celebrate and eat!
I “liked” Red & Honey and I already “liked” Frugal Granola.
I was already a subscriber to Red & Honey, and I just subscribed to Frugal Granola. Thanks for the opportunity!
I wrote about the giveaway on my blog’s Facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Wife-Life/140987092648434
These sound fantastic!
All my family moved away in the last year and a half, and so they will be enjoying Christmas together in the prairies without me. I will be having Christmas at home with my husband, and we will visit his family on the big day.
Beth, you are truly creative and I have enjoyed reading your blog lately. It is a nice break from the reality of life here in the Middle East. I would like to enter your contest, so, I am going to let you know our plans for Christmas.
1) We are trimming a tree on Saturday, it will be half the size then if we were at home and it will be artificial. Makes me sad to think about it, but it will be nice to have a splash of Christmas in our house when it is still 20 degrees outside.
2) We are taking a trip to Spain and hoping to get a little dose of the cold. We have opted to spend time as our family of four in a place outside of our country in hopes that there will be more “Christmasy” type things to do.
3) Ultimately, we hope to celebrate the birth of Christ with our kids. They have had so much exposure to Islam it is especially important to remind them daily that Jesus is the only way to eternal life and that Christmas is the day He was born.
We are taking a serious deviation from the gift giving and focusing more on family because we do not have the extended family to celebrate. It will be hard at times over the Christmas season, but, right now, we are where we need to be, and we are satisfied with that. We wish you a Merry Christmas season! Enjoy the snow.