I am a bit late for Modern Mrs. Darcy’s Quick Lit but I think this is a better late than never kind of thing, right? Here are this month’s reads… Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon. Caroline read this one and insisted I read it so we could discuss the ending. Everything Everything is the story […]
Read more“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” -L.M. Montgomery
Read moreIt feels like a really long time since I wrote a picture book posts. Here are some of our recent favorites. Enjoy! This is Sadie written by Sara O’Leary & illustrated by Julie Morstad. Sadie is a little girl with a huge imagination. I am so glad we were able to share a day with her […]
Read moreThis post is inspired by my wise friend, Kathleen Harris. Around lunch time today, a friend came over because her washing machine had broken mid cycle. She borrowed ours to finish her wash. We sat at the kitchen table talking about, appliances, meetings and fundraisers, sports and girl drama. She peeked at her phone and […]
Read moreThis weekend we took our annual pumpkin picking trip to DePiero’s Farm. We actually began getting our pumpkins at DePiero’s before we even moved. According to the picture below, Rob’s parents brought DePiero’s pumpkins with them when they visited us in Richmond. Apparently, Caroline looked like this the first time we went to DePiero’s for […]
Read moreToday I’m linking up with one of my favorite bloggers, Modern Mrs. Darcy, for her monthly post, Quick Lit. Here is a quick look at what I have been reading this month. 11/22/63 by Stephen King. I keep going back and forth about the value of reading super long books that take me forever to […]
Read moreQuotes, the recent prompt from Ali Edwards 31 More Things came at a great time. There is a lot of talk about the state of the blogging world. Many of my favorite bloggers (Lindsey, Nina and Kristen) have all written about it lately. I am in my own season of questioning what I am doing […]
Read moreA few years back I took a great class called 31 Things with the amazing memory keeper, Ali Edwards. The class is meant to generate material to be included in a scrap book but seeing as I don’t scrap book, I used the class to inspire blog posts. I was thrilled to discover that Ali […]
Read moreI often get blog posts ideas from the New York Times Review section. There are just so many thought provoking things going on in there. This week, I found a really interesting article and was drawn to it immediately because of it’s author. Stephen King. I am a few decades late to the whole Stephen […]
Read moreI love summer for many reasons but a huge reason is the increase in reading time. Katherine and I have had a lot of time to read together so I have broken our favorites for this month in to two posts. Enjoy! Maryilyn’s Monster written by Michelle Knudsen & illustrated by Matt Phelan. All of […]
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