This is where you can find me for the next couple of days.
Eek!
The Book: NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children, by Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman
The Story: Not to say that these two piggybacked, and maybe the two books have nothing to do with each other, but I think that the best way to summarize this book is to say that it is pretty much Freakonomics about kids.
The [...]
I know I shared this goodie with you a couple of weeks ago, but when I got this in an email from my husband, I knew that the Old Spice guy dropped to second place.
Enjoy!
The Book: Blockade Billy, by Stephen King
The Story: This is just an old man telling a story from the earlier days of baseball, when he was the third base coach for the Tigers. Due to circumstances out of any one’s control, a new catcher had to be found asap just days before the first game. [...]
Forever Angels Series, by Suzanne Weyn
So, in fifth and sixth grade, my friend Tiffany and I went through an angel phase. It was actually a little bit bizarre. We read all these books about angels that were way beyond our grasp, we wore angel jewelry, she redecorated her room entirely in [...]
As you may remember, while Isaac was still but a belly-baby, I made a commitment to (among other things) not use this blog as a mommy-blog. I’m standing by that.
However, in order to let our friends and family watch Isaac grow and be a part of his life, Shaun set up a little tumblr blog [...]
The random number generator has spoken. The winner of the second-chance Mockingjay Pin is Irene from my welsh rabbit!
Yay! Congrats! I’ll get your pin in the mail asap so you can start wearing it.
Thanks again to everyone who entered!
Less than a week until Mockingjay!
Heart-Shaped Box, by Joe Hill
Seriously, I used to be braver than this! Even when I was younger I would get so excited about a good, scary book. The last couple I’ve read, I’ve had to have a back-up book going that I could read to un-freak myself out. I’m the same way with movies. I [...]
I know that I reminded you once last week, but just wanted to let you know one last time: tomorrow is the drawing for the Mockingjay Pin!
This beaut could be all yours:
Head over here to enter: Mockingjay Pin Giveaway!
Just wanted to let you guys know that Isaac Archer Lewis made his way into the world. He was born August 11 at 6:39 p.m. He was 7 pounds 7 ounces and 21 inches long. He has more hair than most grown men. He’s perfect.
Here he is swinging in his little swing. He’s a pretty [...]