It’s “Dress As Your Favorite Book Character” day at Sam’s school. Anyone want to take a guess at who he is?

I can’t believe we had all the materials for this just in our house (you gotta love pipe cleaners), and that he actually chose a character we could put together with some good old fashioned [...]

This is a great story about a real-life Spiderman rescue in Thailand.
For all of you theater majors/ex-actors/working actors, I haven’t laughed this hard in a looong time.
Melissa Stanton, author of The Stay-At-Home Survival Guide, has joined us in blogland with her new site, Real Life Support For Moms. I hope you’ll go and make her [...]

Well, you know I love her, but Barabara Kingsolver has done it for me again, this time with her first non-fiction work. For the past 48 hours all I’ve been saying to my husband is “I LOVE this book! This book is amazing! How did she get so smart?!” And it’s true. I’m only two [...]

Through the New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2008 we found “The Little Yellow Leaf,” by Carin Berger. And I have to say it is my new favorite children’s book. Not only is it beautifully illustrated, but I love the writing. It’s lovely, touching, meaningful on many levels, and poetic. The art seems [...]

I interrupt intense sessions of Guitar Hero, the viewing of the top 100 Best Hard Rock songs on VH-1, and the obsessive completion of our 2009 online budget plan to direct you to my post over at Philly Moms:
Alternate Title 1 - “My Sister-In-Law Wears Prada”
Alternate Title 2 - “Mommy’s Got a Brand New Bag”
Actual [...]

Blaaaaahhhhh…that’s how I’ve been feeling. I’m sorry I haven’t been around. Haven’t been around my blog. Haven’t really been around yours either this week. And I’m sorry…blaaaahhhhh.
So you can imagine how happy I was to finally emerge temporarily to find that a few lovely ladies bestowed on me some awardage, and one has a meme [...]

Did I see Twilight this weekend? Yes
Did I see it twice within 24 hours? . . . um, yes.
Was it all that I hoped? I have no idea. I guess yes, because really I just didn’t want to hate it.
Was it without fault? Absolutely not.
Did I love it? Absolutely yes.
Hubby and I went and saw [...]