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Ahhhh, I love this room. It has all my favorite things – books, a dog, and a snuggly blanket. I’d love to arrange our books this way when we get a new house. And speaking of, I have to get back to cleaning/packing. We are taking soooo long to get this house ready to sell. [...]

Monsters!

My boys love ‘em – we might need to get this book…

A Field Guide to Monsters: Googly-Eyed Wart Floppers, Shadow-Casters, Toe Eaters, and Other Creatures 

let the wild rumpus start!

I’m so excited to see Where the Wild Things Are directed be Spike Jonze!  It comes out in October, and although I’ve read mixed reviews/opinions on the final version  - if it’s as cool as these pictures make it look?  It will be amazing.  
I can’t even tell you how many times we’ve read this [...]

Twilight

Well, here goes.  Confession time…
No, I’m not a 13 year old, but yes – I LOVE TWILIGHT.  It all started with the books (I’m on the 3rd one).  I know, I know – they’re technically “young adult”.  Whatever.  Also, they’re pretty easy reads.  But isn’t this OK once in a while?  Everything can’t be War [...]

where the sidewalk ends

There is a place where the sidewalk ends
And before the street begins,
And there the grass grows soft and white,
And there the sun burns crimson bright,
And there the moon-bird rests from his flight
To cool in the peppermint wind.
Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black
And the dark street winds and bends.
Past the pits where [...]