I love Sunday evenings. We get home from church, we have dinner, Bart does the dishes, and then we usually just lie on the couches and read or talk until bed time. Occasionally, we’ll play a board game together. We rarely go out anywhere on Sunday night. I like how relaxing and calm it is before we jump back into…
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River Secrets by Shannon Hale
Hey, are you tired of reading reviews of Shannon Hale’s books? Because I’m not at all tired of reading them. I’m only sad that the next book of hers doesn’t come out for twenty four more days. river secrets River Secrets is the book that follows Enna Burning, which followed The Goose Girl. After the war with Tira is won…
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Shopaholic and Baby – Sophie Kinsella
Shopaholic and Baby is not a book I’d recommend, mostly because it’s a book I read completely for my own cheap thrills, rather than it’s rich literary quality. Like The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, I was introduced to Sophie Kinsella by my BYU Sports and Dance coworkers in the summer of 2005. I read the first three that summer…
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Stepping up on my little soapbox
I think that, when we have kids, we’re going to home school. I didn’t attend public school until my freshman year in high school. My mom started homeschooling me in kindergarten because my birthday was just a few days past the deadline and the rules were completely rigid: if you were not five on the first day of kindergarten, you…
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Pristine
When I sit in our newly-painted living room, I almost forget how much effort it took on Saturday to get it to look this way. Then I stand up, and my legs are so sore they almost give out, and I quickly remember: it was a very long Saturday. We bought the Polar Bear paint on Friday night, but decided…
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