Today’s game: How you might know your baby is now a toddler! (OR: Can you guess where I found the item in the feature image?) Here’s how we play! Round 1: Parent takes the coffee to play the kids, keeping it up high and generally out of reach. Round 2: The Once-Baby-Now-Toddler STRIKES while the parent is still…
Little Blue Truck Author: Alice Schertle (text © 2008) Illustrator: Jill McElmurry (illustration © 2008) Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers Genre: Children’s Books Subgenre: Early Learning – Basic Concepts, Sounds; Farm Animals; Cars & Trucks Reviewer: Sara Book received by: Gift Synopsis: Travel the country roads with Little Blue. Meet his friends while he bumps…
The other night after dinner, I let Little Man out of his highchair to toddle around the deck. And by toddle, I usually mean: seek and destroy. The everything. On this particular night, he approached the covered electrical outlets. He’s thoroughly entertained by opening and closing them, so I often keep a close eye on him, but allow exploration of…
Yesterday morning I poured in water and measured beans into my favorite kitchen appliance: the Grind ‘N’ Brew coffee maker. There’s nothing quote as fabulous as the sound of grinding beans in the morning. Except for maybe the smell of that delicious brew percolating and filling the carafe. Well, it happens that hubby has been collecting…
Calico Joe Author: John Grisham (© 2012 by Belfry Holdings, Inc) Publisher: Bantam Genre: Literature & Fiction Sub-genre: Sports, Coming of Age, Family Saga Reviewer: Sara Synopsis: Summer, 1973. The baseball season would prove unforgettable: Joe Castle, a quiet man from small-town Calico Rock with a mighty swing, rose from the minors on…
One night a few weeks ago, Big Dude made his way into my room a little after 2 a.m. There had been an incident. Hubby was away on a business trip, so I shook off the confusion from my middle-of-the-night sleep disruption and hustled Big Dude to the bathroom. One bath and a striped bed later, we made our…
The Mill River Redemption Author: Darcie Chan © 2014 Publisher: Ballentine Books Genre: Literary Fiction Subgenre: Women’s Fiction, Family Saga, Psychological Thriller Reviewer: Sara Synopsis: Josie DiSanto fled New York City with her two young daughters for Mill River, Vermont to start over after her husband’s murder. When tragedy strikes again, it…
Brain on Fire © 2012 Author: Susannah Cahalan Publisher: Simon & Schuster Genre: Memoir Subgenre: Medical Reviewer: Sara Synopsis: Twenty-four year-old Susannah Cahalan woke in a hospital bed with no memory of how she came to be there. Over the course of a few weeks, her life disintegrated. Brain on Fire tells…
We recently stopped at a local restaurant to pick up lunch. It was ordered ahead of time and ready to go, but this particular establishment doesn’t do curbside delivery. No problem. The food is worth unloading Big Man and Little Dude, so in we go. While waiting in line, the older gentleman in front of us…
It seems like most every mother I know posted rosy pictures and sweet notes on social media yesterday. This is not one of those posts. It’s not a soap box post about the history and the commercialization of Mother’s Day in the US, either. It’s a little snippet of our day, and hopefully one that will…
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