February 29, 2012 – 11:59 am
I saw these and I’m pretty sure I literally salivated.
With a new little guy or girl on the way, my brain is filled with fun ways to decorate a new kid room. We decorated Izey’s with bold colors and robots- I’m still totally in love with it, but want to do something more muted [...]
February 28, 2012 – 6:58 pm
The Book: Afraid, by Jack Kilborn
The Story: (from Goodreads) The US government spends billions of dollars training soldiers to kill. Now they’re attempting an alternative approach. Instead of turning soldiers into killers, the military has trained five psychopathic murderers to be part of a classified Special Forces unit.
Codename: Red-Ops
They are the most fearsome weapon [...]
February 26, 2012 – 9:35 am
Hardy Har.
(I’m not a Star Wars fan (I’ve never seen them!) but Emily Dickinson with a light saber? Awesome.)
[Grant Snider]
February 25, 2012 – 2:48 pm
Franklin Pierce: New Hampshire’s Favorite Son, by Peter A. Wallner
Ok, up front confession: I guess I was confused when I bought this biography. Even now, looking at the page on Amazon I don’t really see where it says this, but the book I read is book one in a two book series on Pierce. What [...]
February 24, 2012 – 7:53 am
1. I just slept for a little over 8 hours straight. That never, never happens for me. I feel like I could lift a car.
2. Shopping for a double stroller is, in my experience, harder than shopping for a car. Or deciding to have more kids to fill said stroller. Or… well… any decision I’ve [...]
February 22, 2012 – 4:32 pm
The Book: Mennonite in a Little Black Dress, by Rhoda Janzen
The Story: (From Goodreads) Not long after Rhoda Janzen turned forty, her world turned upside down. It was bad enough that her brilliant husband of fifteen years left her for Bob, a guy he met on Gay.com, but that same week a car accident left [...]
February 22, 2012 – 3:57 pm
Must have been President’s Day motivating everyone but today Julie AND Jennie posted their newest reviews of Presidential Bios! Pretty exciting stuff.
Here is Julie’s review of James Madison by Gary Willis.
Here is Jennie’s review of John Quincy Adams:A Public Life, A Private Life, by Paul C. Nagal.
I’m about 75 pages into my Franklin Pierce [...]
February 21, 2012 – 8:43 am
So if you are on Pinterest and don’t follow Scholastic, you have no idea what you are missing! They spread the book-related love every day and I’m totally obsessed.
Their board have names like, “Libraries We Love” “Bookish Bedrooms” “Harry Potter. Always.” and my favorite: “All Things Baby-Sitters Club”
In the Baby-Sitters Club one, they have [...]
February 19, 2012 – 9:32 am
Week #3 with Grant Snider. I love this one!
February 17, 2012 – 4:06 pm
1. The reason this isn’t being posted bright and early in the a.m. like most of my Friday Five posts is because I’ve been running around like crazy almost all day. We’re going out of town this weekend so I’ve been doing laundry and packing and all that fun stuff. I also had plans to [...]