For the record, we had a night where the book elf was called and we had to cancel his nightly drop-off due to naughty behavior, which explains one night when I got a reprieve from self-imposed book reports. The other nights probably have equally valid reasons that sound better in…
Over the years I’ve come across a number of people that wear the same outfit every day. Well, to be more exact, I’ve come across a number of men that wear the same outfit every day. First there was Joe. We went to the same school and he wore a…
When I was a kid I remember LOoOoOving The Poky Little Puppy. I don’t know if it was the puppies or the rice pudding or the strawberry shortcake or what, but I thought it was nearly perfect. Then I grew up and re-read The Poky Little Puppy. Suffice it to…
Last year our cousins Covin and Jenna got an “Elf on the Shelf.” Maybe he was around earlier, we’re not sure. We are sure that last year was when their elf stepped it up. We heard that one day he was fishing in their toilet… and then one day the…
Way back when, when we were debating baby names, we settled pretty quickly on Jacob and Nathaniel. Though James did make a run at “Sergio.” We’d go get coffee and he’d give the cashier his proposed baby name and then I’d here “Double latte for Sergio?” And he’d look at…
I’m embarrassed to admit or repeat the things that I have exclaimed at my two vertically-challenged housemates this year. I had no idea I would ever have to say such things. I will absolutely not repeat them here… needless to say, the most compromising exclamations most certainly occur at bath…
My polling turned up two pirate books… which I guess is what you get when you poll pirates. Did I ever tell you the story of the time 9 or 10 of us girls dressed-up as pirates and floated down the Truckee river? I’m fairly certain the bachelorette wore an…
We’re three days into the book blog of 2013 and it’s really picking-up steam. The anticipation builds all day until the boys actually forgot to demand treats after dinner tonight, rushing to bath time as the final hurdle before opening the secret book bag. Before our story synopsis, a little…
The second book in our series is a little French number titled Press Here by Herve Tullet. I was intrigued by the idea of this interactive book and bought it out of curiosity. Fortunately, it didn’t disappoint. There was once a time, back when Nate was a baby, that Jacob…
Somehow I got this idea while trolling around on the internet… it might have been the Facebook, it might have been the Pinterest. The premise? Buy 25 new kids books, wrap each one, and then read one every day as we count down to Christmas. It appealed to me for…