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I don’t generally participate in memes but have been short of blog fodder and am a bit under the weather, so since I’ve been tagged by Deb at Let a Woman Learn, I thought I’d participate. The rules are: 1. Pick up the nearest book of at least 123 pages. 2. Open the book to…

Fiction!

So after my comments about reading more non-fiction recently, I finished two novels. The first was the new Jan Karon (the novel I got for Christmas). I really love her books. In this book Father Tim goes home for the first time in years and works through family history trauma and especially his relationship with…

Family Books

My reading has changed over the past 3 to 4 years. I’ve mostly always been a big reader, but being mommy to 3 little ones has cut down my pace considerably … when I have a real chance to read, I generally want a nap 🙂 Anyway, my reading has moved from pretty much strictly…

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Our current read-aloud is Stuart Little after finishing all but Now We Are Six of the Milne books (we’ll go back and pick it up later). Today’s chapters include the one where the family thinks Stuart has gone down the mouse-hole. I just put Margaret and Nate to bed, am sitting at the computer surfing…

Some surprises here

MBTI has always shown me as _NFP and usually I split 50/50 on the E and I. I’m surprised this test put me so strongly “I” The Multiple Intelligences is probably more true. I do like to be alone, but sometimes. I do like to be with others and interact, but sometimes. It depends. One…

An Exhausting week

An Exhausting week

We’ve had an exhausting week. It started last Friday. Jason attended my brother’s bachelor party: a trip to the Indians Royals baseball game in Cleveland. The indians won, woo-hoo! (or would that be “Wa-hoo”?) Go Ohio! My parents took the “big” kids to COSI to see the Big Diggers exhibit. They had a blast. While…