I was sent this book to review by TLC Book Tours this last month. Usually I review self-improvement and parenting type books, so this was a little different for me–not that I don’t enjoy fiction, because I definitely do! Winters Awakening by Shelley Shepard Gray is the first book in the author’s new series about…
TLC Book Tours recently sent me The Body Scoop For Girls: A Straight-Talk Guide to a Healthy, Beautiful You by Dr. Jennifer Ashton. Dr. Ashton is an OB-GYN specializing in adolescent care and she is totally cool. And by cool, I definitely mean I want to be just like her when I grow up. She has taken…
Mormon Mommy Blogs is hosting a holiday home tour where we show how our homes are decorated for the holidays. So, I’m inviting you into my house to take a looky-loo at my own decorations. I would have gotten around to anyway at some point this holiday season, so the $50.00 gift card isn’t motivating me in…
I love how ever since Elder Bednar gave that talk in General Conference, it’s just part of the vernacular. I’m trying to do too many things at once. I tend to do this in my life. And then I become overwhelmed and go to bed. Anyway, today I’m trying to finish painting my bathroom. I…
Lately, my husband and I have been doing our weekly date on Thursday mornings. Somewhat unconventional I realize, but it saves us the babysitter trouble, our three-year-old is in preschool and neither of us has to teach at that time. It has actually been wonderful and we can’t wait for Thursday to come around each…
I’m excited to have another opportunity to review a book for TLC Book Tours. This time the book I am reviewing is Saving Sammy: Curing the Boy Who Caught OCD by Beth Maloney. Honestly, I kind of ignored the book for a while after TLC sent it to me, simply because I thought it would…
I didn’t dress up for the Friday night Treat Street thing. But I did dress up on Saturday for actual Halloween. Too bad hardly anyone saw my costume to appreciate all the work I did on my hair. It may have been easier to buy a wig. After the lovely Friday night weather, Saturday was…
My oldest daughter (age 9) has wanted to be Ginormica for Halloween for months. Monsters vs. Aliens has been her favorite movie ever since we saw it in the theaters this past spring. What with the big move and all, I just had a hard time with the whole Halloween costume prep (which is why…
When we first began planning for Halloween, my middle daughter (age 6) really wanted to be a cowgirl. Sometime a few weeks ago, all of that changed, and she became adamant about going as a witch. Cool with me. We had a witch costume that would fit her and we’d be all set. Then she…
My youngest was all set to be a pumpkin this Halloween. She was wearing the costume that I made for her oldest sister back when she was three years old and wanted to be “orange” for Halloween, so I figured a pumpkin would do. My middle daughter also wore the same costume when she was…
“Soare cu dinti” is a Romanian phrase that means “sun with teeth.” They use it to describe one of those beautiful winter (or fall, or even spring) days where the sun is shining, the sky is blue, but you’ll still freeze to death if you go outside. We had one of those toothy days yesterday,…