Happy Thanksgiving, American friends, and the best of the season to those of you who aren't!  May it be contented and suffused with joy.

And gravy.

Yep, that's about it. :)  Hope you guys are great!

This this this!

You know, it could be terrible (and out of his company I'd have picked someone else for the male lead at least), but the very idea of my favorite play together with one of my favorite - er, what would you call him, an auteur?  Writer/director?   Snarkmeister?  Either way.  I'm ready to see this NOW - but I'm also kind of giddy with ( Read more... )

Big Girl just made a pirate ship out of a pencil (mast) and an old box out of the recycling.

And I've just realized that she used a tampon to make the cannon.

Eep!

*Edited to clarify the tampon did not come out of the recycling.  She had taped it down so thoroughly that I didn't even realize what it was at first viewing.  And it is cannon-

I kind of wish I could spend the day watching The History Channel and the memorials on tv, but I can't do that to my kids.  They're too little and they'd only be scared.  Heck, it still scares me ( Read more... )

Flower Child, trying to avoid going to sleep:  "I gogot to kiss Mummy!"

Me: "Oh no!"  Kisses her.

FC: "I gogot to kiss Mummy AGAIN!"

In case you are wondering, in addition to the aforementioned Mermaid's Mirror, I just finished dystopian YA Matched.  I'd tried it in bookstores a few times and was unimpressed, but now I get why people love it.  It's not perfect -  I don't entirely know how I feel about the love interest and whether he's been developed (or whether I think he and ( Read more... )

I finally got my hands on L.K. Madigan's "The Mermaid's Mirror" this week, which I liked a lot.  I had a really funny moment with the beginning of it, though.  There's a character who's referred to from the start as Pem and Pember.  I'd just read a bit of the book, and was wondering (when I had to set it down) whether the character was named ( Read more... )

With apologies for coming at you so often with morbid stuff; I shouldn't have had those two cups of tea before bed, and now you guys are paying the price for my inability to snooze ( Read more... )

This week's reading list:

Anna and the French Kiss
Sarah's Key
Avalon High
Warped

I'm just starting Fairest now.