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A Little Salty to Cut the Sweet by BooMama (Giveaway)

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Jennifer here to share about Sophie Hudson’s new book, A Little Salty to Cut the Sweet. You may know her as BooMama. We were compensated to write this post however all opinions remain our own.

I remember the very first time I landed on BooMama’s website. I found her by accident when I was looking up a television show to see if it was one I wanted to watch. She wrote a recap of the show, but it was her hilarity and the events of her day that drew me in. From that very first post I read of hers, I was hooked.

BooMama is one of those ladies that will make you laugh until you pee your pants, and then turn right around and make you cry until you are a blubbering idiot. So when I heard she published a book,A Little Salty to Cut the Sweet, I desperately wanted to read it.

I’m from the south, so I know how important those old family values are. This book just gave me the warm fuzzies all over. BooMama’s (or Sophie — her real name) book is full of extremely funny stories of family that are just overflowing with heart and love.

Most of us have grown up in families  that have quirks and expressions that would leave us all dying with laughter, but the best part is the food and a mom who taught all the women how to prepare it.

About the book:

There’s nothing quite like family–and some people would say that there’s nothing better. But in a world where we sometimes know more about the Kardashians than we do about the people sleeping right down the hall, it’s easy to forget that walking through life with our family offers all sorts of joy wrapped up in the seemingly mundane. There’s even a little bit of sacred sitting smack-dab in the middle of the ordinary. And since time’s-a-wastin’, we need to be careful that we don’t take our people–and their stories–for granted.

Whether it’s a marathon bacon-frying session, a road trip gone hysterically wrong, or a mother-in-law who makes every trip to the grocery store an adventure, author Sophie Hudson reminds us how important it is to slow down and treasure the day-to-day encounters with the people we love the most.

Written in the same witty style as Sophie’s BooMama blog, A Little Salty to Cut the Sweet is a cheerful, funny, and tender account of Sophie’s very Southern family. It’s a look into the real lives of real people–and a real, loving God right in the middle of it all.

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3 winners are going to get their chance to get a copy of BooMama’s book. Use the Rafflecopter form to enter this giveaway. New to Rafflecopter? Watch this 45-second video on how to enter!

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So what is a funny story about your family?

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  1. We always put our Christmas tree up the day before Thangksgiving since both of our families come to our house. That way, when we are all worn out, the task is out of the way! The day after Christmas, we always go eat Mexican for lunch.

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  2. I don’t know how quirky this is but it’s a thing we do: when we complete something, whether getting through a church service (my littles are 4 and 8) or other “project” we say “good job, Team {our last name}.”

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  5. One of the funny stories about my family involves my youngest of four children (2 at the time). She decided she was done eating the french fries she had asked for but I wanted her to finish them so when she thought no one was looking, she stuffed them into her older sister’s back pocket! She thought she was quite the NINJA and wouldn’t get caught. The look on her face, and her sister’s, was priceless!

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  6. Well, I actually was having a hard time coming up with something quirky about my family but we are like several commenters above: we are famously geographically challenged in parking garages (SEVERAL times over the decades, we’ve had to finally resort to getting a guard to drive us around on the Cushman cart to locate our car). Secondly, we hum when content. I LOVE Sophie’s blog and would be thrilled to win a copy of her book!

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  9. There is a now famous story about my Father when we were growing up. My own grandson now knows this story and as of last year it has outlived my Dad. Hopefully it isn’t too inappropriate to tell. The story goes that my Dad and I are sitting at the table talking about how potty humor effects kids and I (age 10) say “well of course Dad all little kids think those words are funny” to which he says “really?” and proceeds down the hall to my younger sister’s room to test my theory. He knocks on her door and the minute she opens Dad starts in with a slew of kid potty words in a long procession to see her reaction. My sister who is totally blown away by this behavior her eyes wide naturally begins to laugh thus now proving my point… It probably doesn’t come across the same way in writing that it did in that moment but you probably have to know the players too. Anyhow, it is often replayed whenever a family gathering starts to get silly and the family stories come out.

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  11. Every Easter after our big egg hunt we have an egg toss! It’s so much fun & even my 83 year old Maw-Maw plays, with her apron on & everything! Of course there’s lots of trash talk & laughter as the eggs break & the game is played out 🙂

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  13. Oh my….funny and quirky. My grandmother cannot leave her house without every electrical outlet unplugged from the source. I would like to say it is because she is 99, but in actuality, some neighbor told her to do this in 1972, and by gum, we still do it.

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  15. We have odd annual trips and special dinners for different occasions – dinner at Old Country Buffet before school starts, DQ for blizzards after school conferences, fried chicken and brownies for Elvis’ birthday.

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  16. We are not allowed to decorate the Christmas tree unless Amy Grant’s Tennessee Christmas CD is playing on the stereo… it’s been that way for years!

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  17. When we’re at a park or a public location, we’ll pick out people and make up a pretend, humorous story about them & their life! It’s all kind-natured and silly! We enjoy ourselves and makes the time go fast, especially when you’re waiting in lines, etc….

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  19. I can totaly relate to the “a little salty to cut the sweet” because my Mom always saves a little piece of meat to eat after dessert. And now…I find myself doing the same thing.

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  24. My family LOVED charades when I was a kid — they insisted on playing it at every family gathering, much to my chagrin.

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  29. We always have the same breakfast for Christmas – we refer to it as Christmas morning rolls. 🙂

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  30. We cut our ham in to the shape of states and have other people at the table guess what state the ham is. My seven year old seems to be the best at guessing other peoples ham shapes

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  33. My family has throw down Parcheesi tournaments. They are not nice. They involve a lot of trash talking. My 96 year old grandmother always wins, but beating her is like winning the lottery.

    This….is my family.

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  34. We dress up in Dutch costumes every May for Tulip Time in Holland, Michigan and march in the parade….all 7 of us, complete with wooden shoes!

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  35. We have this clap that we all do after we play our traditional board games after Christmas breakfast. We try to see how fast we can go and it’s hilarious cause inevitably, my dad always gets off and ends up hitting someone instead of doing the right clap/high five combo!

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  37. Funny or quirky…now THAT is a question I could write to all stinkin’ day. First thing that comes to mind (because I just did laundry) is that anytime any of our team (5) get any sort of sticker, we put it on the washing machine. We aren’t sure why we do this, just that we always have. So it’s like our whole washing machine is tattooed up with our life’s stories. In stickers, that is.

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  39. Our family sits on the front porch and makes up stories about the people we see coming down the dirt road. We add to each others tales and most often end up laughing so hard we cry.

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  40. There’s a lot of “quirky” in our family. One thing that comes to mind that some find strange, we always eat Mexican food at our Christmas celebration (we’re not Mexican!).

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  41. Love sitting on the back patio watching my kids rat watermelon. The joy on the faces when we get the first watermelon of the season is priceless. It’s the small things in life that are truly important.

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  42. Whoops hit submit too fast 🙁 Our family tries to guess what is in each gift before unwrapping it. So needless to say, we wrap to disguise which is hilarious at times 🙂

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  44. I love twitter because it introduces me to authors I may never have heard of. Boo Mama is certainly one of them. I would love to read this book myself after all I have read about it & her. Thanks for the opportunity!

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    • Sorry hit submit to soon 🙂
      We have a lot of fun traditions through out the year one of them is at Christmas time one family wraps up this hideous owl statue and gives it to a different family no one knows whose turn it will be…we have a lot of fun inside jokes and stories as well.

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  46. Pretty much everything my family does is quirky 😉 we do have a Christmas tradition of hiding a hideous silver underwear set in someone’s gift – it’s been passed around for at least 15 years now! (Still new with tags, thankfully)

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