More than eighteen months ago, while Bart was working for a couple of weeks in Florida, I flew down to spend the weekend with him and on a rainy Saturday, we stopped in at a Barnes and Noble and browsed around for quite a while. Bart picked up a copy of Lighting Their Fires and together, we read the prologue….
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Dress Diaries
You remember the Shabby Apple post? I got. . .quite the response on it from my readers. Oh, you’re wondering what Shabby Apple‘s response to my post was? Nothing. I emailed them the link and it got tossed their way by quite a lot of Twitter folks, but they never made any acknowledgement whatsoever. Which is fine. My goal was…
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2 x 2 (by 2): Let’s Save the Animals and Who Said Coo?
Let’s Save the Animals quickly became one of Ella’s favorite books. Each page shows an animal and has a flap that flips over to show the animal doing another activity. The illustrations are fun (a collage-style) and the animals were doing all sorts of interesting things, like elephants giving themselves showers, penguins sliding on the ice, and tigers pouncing. Most…
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Home Sweet Home
I always like coming home from vacation. It’s nice not to live out of a suitcase, and eat your own regular food, and have normal nap and sleeping schedules. But when the place you’re leaving has a ten-day forecast that looks like this: and you come home to THIS forecast: Well. . . . it’s not quite as sweet to…
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Month by Month
I missed the first month, and my photography skills are not very impressive, and using a yellow backdrop was a bad idea because it was a hard color to adjust for, but I am so glad I did this.