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Who Wants to Win a $500 Amazon Gift Card?

Disability & Discovering God’s Image in Every Person

Who Wants to Win a $500 Amazon Gift Card?

Just for fun, I’m giving away another $500 Amazon gift card this week to celebrate the launch of my new book, The Time-Saving Mom. (Photo shown above is from Getting My Act Together. Read her honest review of The Time-Saving Mom here.)

This time around, in order to enter to win, you just need to request that your library carries my book and/or check the book out from the library. That’s it!

It’s such a helpful thing for an author for you to request that their book is in the library and for you to check it out from the library. Not only does having your book in the library mean that a lot of people will find it and read it who wouldn’t otherwise, but the more people who check it out or put it on hold, means the more the library will notice and possibly either order additional copies of the book or put it in a more prominent display position.

How to Enter to Win a $500 Amazon Gift Card

To enter to win, you just need to:

Request that your library carries the book, ebook, and/or audiobook OR check out the book from your library or put it on hold, if they already have it.
Then, just email me proof that you requested it (forward the email or send me a screenshot): moneysavingmom @ gmail.com
Fill out this super-simple form and you are entered!

I’ll choose and notify the winner on Saturday, March 25, 2023!

(Psst! Susanna Honaker won the last giveaway! I’ve emailed her details on how to claim her gift card.)

Disability & Discovering God’s Image in Every Person

Have you ever wondered how to talk to your kids about disabilities? Do you want your kids to not feel awkward around those who have special needs or disabilities, but you aren’t sure how to interact or what to say and don’t want to say or do the wrong thing?

In this week’s episode of The Crystal Paine Show, I have a really fantastic conversation about with Laura Wifler about this very topic. We not only share practical ideas of how we’ve appreciated others approaching and interacting with us and our children who have disabilities, but we talk about the gift that our children have been to our homes and families and how it has deeply changed and impacted us — in spite of the really hard parts.

Laura Wifler is the author of the new children’s book titled Like Me: A Story About Disability and Discovering God’s Image in Every Person and is also the Executive Director of Risen Motherhood, a nonprofit organization that helps mothers connect their faith to their motherhood.

Laura shares ideas of how to respond when your kids are curious about children with disabilities, giving great pointers about how to behave and what to say when your child asks questions about children they perceive as different. She also opens up and powerfully proclaims God’s truths when it comes to processing through the struggles and hard things that come along with having a child who has disabilities. We also talk about how culture often defines success in one way, but how our children have given us such different perspective.

Whether you have a child with disabilities or whether you know someone who does or whether you just want to know how to better understand and walk with someone who has a child with disabilities, this is a really important conversation to listen to and I think you’ll come away from it deeply moved and encouraged.