Category Archives: Reviews

Read to stay indoors

It has been over 100 degrees here in Austin for weeks now. It is exhausting to step foot outside if it doesn’t involve a pool and iced water. This has lead to a lot of reading and I have enjoyed it a bunch! What have I been reading? The Devlin Diary by Christi Phillips – [...]

summer reading

I’ve been doing a little reading this month and I’d say that it’s been a fairly diverse set of books. A parenting book. A classic love story. And a sci-fi novel. I don’t know if they get any more different than that. But I did enjoy them all! A co-worker gave me the Happiest Baby [...]

May Bookclub

For May’s bookclub book, we read Trail of Crumbs by Kim Sunee. None of us particularly loved the book, it wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t up to the caliber of some of the other books we have read. It was a lot like Eat, Pray, Love in my opinion. . . and I though Eat, [...]

Books I've read lately

It’s been awhile since I’ve had the time to write up about some of the books I’ve been reading, so I thought I would do some concise summaries just to get them out of my head and recorded on this blog. You know that’s why I blog right? To get things out of my head [...]

a reminder for you ladies

*Warning to Men* Proceed forward at your own risk. Just saying. After 18 months of not having to deal with this little annoyance, I had forgotten how much this product improves my quality of life. (Side note – another wonderful benefit of nursing until your baby is a year old is that it delays this [...]

Book Club:: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

To prepare for the recently released movie, our book club decided to read Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. This book falls in the category of a classic children’s book but also the genre of literary nonsense, which we discovered as we were discussing the book together. I really think the only reason I was able to [...]

New Music

It’s been a long time since I’ve shared some of my music purchases with you… In all honestly, they have slowed because of our change in finances… I used to purchase a new CD once every other week! No longer. The holidays and my birthday provided a fun little pop in my music collection and [...]