It's Okay

My blog has been so quiet lately, hasn't it? And that's okay. Because my kids and my husband have all been home. It's been Chris...

Cheesiest Christmas Song Contest Winners!

I loved reading through the entries for the Cheesiest Christmas Song EVER contest . (Thanks to everyone who entered and left comments. I wis...

Let It Snow

If you haven't already, don't forget to enter my cheesiest Christmas song contest here . I'm giving away chocolate. All you have...

A Story A Week: View from the Tenement

Our tenement row got its own cloud today. A dark, black one that stretched from one edge of the neighborhood to the other. The blue sky came...

Verse Novel Challenge: Carver

I did it! I finished Caroline Starr Rose's Verse Novel Challenge ! The last verse novel I read (I actually hope this counts because tech...

Cheesiest Christmas Song EVER & Contest

Some days you just have to let yourself be a Scrooge. This week on my blog you are allowed to be as Scroogie as you'd like. This is a gu...

Pregnancy Brain

I haven't blogged too much about being pregnant. Mostly, I don't want to bore everyone. But today I'm going to make an exception...

A Story A Week: Sashawalla Nutcracking

Whose idea was it to make a Mother Ginger costume out of a Simplicity pattern? Not mine, if you’re asking. It’s December 10 today and the te...

FitG Update: Diary of a Wimpy Kid

I jumped straight out of Octavian Nothing into Diary of a Wimpy Kid , which was on my Fill in the Gaps Project  (FitG) book list. Talk abou...

Octavian Nothing

I just finished The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing  (Volume I: The Pox Party), which I won through a contest on Dawn's blog . Than...

Give a Book, Give the World

Have you noticed the amazing project Jackee Alston has started over on her blog, Winded Words , to celebrate her 200th post? If not, you hav...

Life Happens

Isn't it true that life doesn't slow down for very long before something new pops up? Sometimes it's a good pop up (like a Pop T...

A Story A Week: Squalor

Donna observed the squalor from the middle of the living room floor. Duplo blocks, two undressed dolls with patchy yarn hair, an upturned re...

Snow and Sombreros

The Dashingly Handsome Sidekick had a birthday yesterday. We celebrated with Mexican food, the entire family, a vanilla raspberry cake, and ...