I originally read Matched shortly before Ella was born. This time, instead of going with a paper copy, I downloaded the audio version. This isn’t the first time I’ve listened to a book I’ve previously read. I’ve done the same thing with The Wednesday Wars, If I Stay, The Help, Nightshade, The Summer I Turned Pretty, and The Book Thief.It’s…
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Halloween Books for Kids: 7 Spooky Titles
For the last couple of weeks, Ella and I have made a little game of finding Halloween books for kids with the orange cat sticker on the book spines at the library. She’s become very adept at spotting them and we now have an enormous stack of Halloween books sitting in our living room. Per usual, most holiday books are deeply…
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Sisters Share It All: Favorite Fall Recipe
This is the part where I have to admit that pumpkin is not my favorite flavor. And I feel like the Internet bombards me with pumpkin recipes (I am fairly certain that every third pin on Pinterest for the last 2 months has been a pumpkin recipe of one kind or another). It’s not that I hate pumpkin, it’s just…
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September Favorites
September is always one of my favorite months. A return to school (which I love as a stay-at-home mom because the library and the grocery store and the parks are much less crowded during the day), my birthday, and the promise of cooler weather someday. Some specific things I loved in September: These little owls Ella and I made one…
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Project Nesting
We’ve been on a big kick to get some things done around the apartment to make it ready to house another small person, and, good heavens, am I happy. I mean, it cost me $8 to replace the pink crib sheets (that we bought during the 3 minutes we considered having the nursery be pink in 2010) with some plain…
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