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Yesterday was some sort of delurking day. I missed the boat. Sorry about that. I do have some linky love for you today, though. Please click to visit my Blogroll and if you’re a regular reader who hasn’t said hello yet, I invite you to say “Hi”. You can also say things like, “I adore [...]

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We Get By With A Little Help From NickJr

Yesterday morning my little guy decided his insides should be on his outsides. I spent most of Tuesday wiping a runny little bottom and cleaning the bathroom and washing my hands fourteen hundred times. Today I’m spending my time watching him closely, encouraging him to drink and trying to push crackers into his face. It’s [...]

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Neil Gaiman’s Coraline Book Trailer

This weekend I read Neil Gaiman’s book “Coraline” which is about a little girl who finds an alternate and frightening world on the other side of her wall. This book is usually housed in the juvenile or young adult fiction collections at your library. I can’t imagine my daughter reading this and not being scared [...]

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In Case You Thought I Wasn’t An Idiot

I spent twenty minutes tonight discussing with a four-year old who cannot read why he couldn’t have his brother’s book light.

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Because I Said So!

It’s 6pm and everyone is desperately trying to suck the last drops of sweetness out of Christmas break. I hope we don’t hurt ourselves trying. There really isn’t anything break-like left. We need to eat dinner, take baths, pack lunches, find school clothes, check book bags, and hit the hay. There will be some video [...]

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Fourteen Years

On a snowy Monday afternoon fourteen Januaries ago, I went to the courthouse in the same dress I’d worn for high school graduation and got married to a super long-haired rocker boy. We had few worldly possessions and almost nothing of monetary value between us. We moved into a basement apartment in a roach motel. [...]

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Bedtime Routine for Mom

Every night after I finally get the kids strapped into their beds, I stay up to surf, watch TV or read. Every night I’m up past midnight. Every morning I feel like a new degree of death warmed over. Since this is the age of resolutions, I think it’s time to resolve to get to [...]

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More Reading Goals and Challenges

I told my husband I was setting a reading goal and want to read 45 books this year.
He said, “Why? That’s a ton of books. Isn’t that a waste of time?”
I said, “How many hours do you plan to spend fishing this year?”
“As many as possible.”
“Isn’t that a waste of time?”
“It’s my therapy.”
“Exactly.”
“I see your [...]

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Reading List 2007 and 2008’s Reading Goal

Reading 2007
In April I started reading for pleasure again. It had been a long time since I’d made reading books for fun a regular part of my life. When I picked up that first book, I didn’t set a goal for how many books I’d read after it. I just wanted to be always [...]

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