When TLC Book Tours first contacted me about this particular book, I wasn’t really sure what I would think of it. It definitely sounded intriguing—a woman living in the Australian rain forest for over a year with her husband? I wanted to know just what on earth would possess someone to do something so crazy…
“I am a parent, therefore I worry.” Or maybe it should be “I worry, therefore I am a good parent.” Either way, we parents tend to worry a lot. I can really attest to that because I am not a worrier. I never have been one to fret about things much. But then I had…
Cancer. It’s an ugly word, and an even uglier reality. Nobody likes to think about it, but for some people, like Amy Boesky, it is never far from their thoughts. Amy, her two sisters, her mother, her aunt, her grandmother—all of the female members of her family lived in fear of cancer, and with good…
On closing night, I found myself staring at a stack of thank you cards waiting to be written to all of the wonderful people I got to work with while doing La Traviata last month. The director, the maestro, the resident opera artists, the stage managers, the costumers and so on and so forth. I…
This summer, part of my mindset about motherhood has fundamentally changed. I couldn’t tell you really why, or how it happened. It just did. It was kind of like something in me just snapped and I realized that these children that have been placed in my care will not be here with me long and…
I have a somewhat reliable system for rating books over on Goodreads. If I really hated it, I give it one star. If it was okay, I give it two stars. If I really liked the book, it probably got three stars. If I loved it, stayed up all night reading it and couldn’t put…
I was thinking the other day about how when I was 16 years old, my mother was 37. Which is only 2 years older than I am now. And I kind of had a light bulb moment, because I barely feel equipped to mother a 9-year old, and if I had a teenager right now…
A few weeks ago, while I was in the process of making valentines for the kids, my 3-year-old daughter threw an epic tantrum. As I was getting everything set up, she asked if she could have some paper to draw pictures while I worked. I agreed, and she went and got it herself. She sat next…
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…
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…
Shortly before we moved from Utah to Michigan, TLC Book Tours contacted me about reviewing The Curse of the Good Girl by Rachel Simmons. My first inclination was to say, “No, thank you. Too much on my plate right now.” But then I read the book’s description and, as a mother of girls, I thought…