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…
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…
It’s official. We are on the verge of a veritable coupe in children’s literature, mark my words. For over 60 years we have been told that “we LOOOOooooOOOOVE Goodnight Moon.” Apparently, we do not. Over the course of two days I overheard the following: Jakey’s Dad: This book is dumb. …