Overall, it went very well.  We sold the things that I most wanted to sell, and Charlie and Elizabeth are on the second Goodwill run with the leftovers, so nothing that we wanted to get rid of is coming back into the house.  Yay!  We made a good chunk of money, more than I was expecting, so that's good.  But here, as a reminder to myself mostly, ( Read more... )

For those of you interested in children's/YA literature, I highly recommend following the Battle of the Kids' Books. They take sixteen of the best books of last year, bracket them in alphabetical order, and get authors to decide each match. This year, I decided I wanted to read all of the books being discussed, and it's a lot of fun. I still ( Read more... )

The inspiration for the book reviews post was actually the fact that the ALA awards were announced today. And then I forgot to mention that ( Read more... )

Hey look! A post that's not whining! (Yay for an honest-to-goodness napping child ( Read more... )

My in-laws were here for two weeks, and just left last night. So today I sent Charlie and Elizabeth to do the grocery shopping -- he usually takes her on Monday mornings, since he takes his second weekend day as a half day off on Friday and Monday instead of a full day one of those two days -- we're getting pictures done on Monday, and I figured ( Read more... )

I got barely any sleep last night. Not Elizabeth's fault; I have no idea what was keeping me from sleeping. This morning I felt like I got hit by a truck. Advil has taken most of the headache, though there's still a dull thud, and breakfast and a shower have helped, too, but I'm definitely not feeling up to hitting the town. Boo. I'm going to ( Read more... )

I am really going to try to post more frequently, I promise.

Here's a meme from mi_er. She gave me the letter C. If you'd like me to give you a letter, let me know in the comments! But feel free to comment even if you don't want a letter of your own ( Read more... )