I didn’t celebrate Halloween as a child, and I’m pretty leery of letting ‘scary stuff’ in our home, but we do help our boys pick out costumes and attend kid-friendly Halloween events. When one of my younger sons came to me saying he was scared of the dark because of mummies, I was perplexed. We […]
Archives for October 2014
Your Reading Personality
I just took Oprah’s reading personality quiz, twice. I generally have a hard time taking quizes, so after completing it the first time, I went back and took it again, and came up with two profiles that are pretty true to what I read. The first (and what I think is my dominant reading personality) […]
Guinea Antics
This morning I let the birds out early, and later on, I noticed the mother hen bringing the chicks and guineas out of very tall grass–and there was only two guineas with her, instead of three. This made me nervous, and I looked around for the third guinea, which was no where in sight. A […]
What I’m Reading Twitterature Edition–October 2014
Highly sensitive people, this book’s not for you. I enjoyed the first Cormoran Strike book, and eagerly dove into this one, but The SIlkworm is grisly and graphic. Both books are murder mysteries, but The Silkworm goes overboard in describing horrific details. I slogged though the entire thing, skipping the overly descriptive passages, since I’m […]
The Best Reusable Products for Trashless Lunches
I’ve been packing school lunches for four years and counting, and for the most part, they’ve all been trashless. There are lots of options out there, but here’s what has worked for our family. I have two boys in school–one buys his lunch one day a month, and the other refuses to buy school lunch. […]
What I’m Reading
I’ll begin by a spoiler alert–the news about the latest Bridget Jones book came out so long ago that I’m guessing most people have heard it, but if you haven’t (and don’t want to), scroll down to my next book selection.When I heard about the situation with Mr. Darcy, my first thought was that Fielding […]
A Fowl Update–More Eggs, Less Snakes
Earlier this summer, we had a hen hatch three chicks in the yard. Now the chicks are all grown up, and they turned into a rooster and two hens. After seeing what a devoted mother the hen was, I began thinking about starting a sustainable barred rock flock, and bought some day old chicks. They […]
