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Do your kids have a case of the back-to-school blues? Cold winter weather bringing you down? Now may be the perfect time to cheer up with a laugh out loud book. These quality books are not only clever and well written, but are just downright funny! AGES 3 AND UP: Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive [...]
I just finished reading Janet Evanovich’s latest book, “Smokin’ Seventeen: A Stephanie Plum Novel” and it’s classic Evanovich. This is the 17th in a series of mysteries about a bounty hunting, donut loving, car destroying Jersey girl named Stephanie Plum. My husband once asked me what these books were about and I described them as [...]
Barry MacDonald’s book “Boys on Target” is one of those books I’ve picked up and put down many times but I finally made my way through it. I am, after all, a mother of two young, energetic boys so I’m compelled to learn about what makes them tick. I admit; I was skeptical. I don’t [...]
Among our friends my husband and I were the anomalous couple who did not co-habitate before marriage. I tell you this because I recently tested the newest cookbook Eating Forward from Sandi Richard and it brought back memories of purchasing her first cookbook, waaaayyyy back in 1999, a year before we got married. Though we [...]
The Story The Gathering by Kelley Armstrong is as story of a group of kids living in a remote small town on Vancouver Island (yay Canadian setting) whose primary employer is a medical research facility. Some weird incidents start occurring, including suspicious deaths and encounters with cougars, which forms the underlying supernatural hook for the [...]
Ever wonder why it always seems to be the Chinese kids at school who are good at Math or exceptional at playing instruments? Battle Hymn Of The Tiger Mother ” claims to answer that question and provide a “look inside the world” of raising two American-Chinese girls who become musical prodigies. The author, Amy Chua, [...]
Does your boyfriend/husband/partner royally tick you off from time to time? Does he have a bad habit that you really wonder if you can continue to tolerate? Do you think he is worth it despite all that? If that’s the case read “How to Raise a Boyfriend” by Rebecca Eckler with tongue firmly in cheek. [...]
I remember when my husband and I were trying to figure out the dollars and cents of having our first child. How much will diapers cost over a 2 year period? Can we afford for me to stay home and be a full time mom? Do we need all that colourful, bouncy, musical baby equipment? [...]
“The Lucky Sperm Club” by Rebecca Eckler is about Amanda, a 20-ish woman who had a child with Slade, a wealthy guy who dumps Amanda when he hears she is pregnant. With her court ordered child support, Amanda and her daughter Clover are doing okay until the day that Slade, on his mother’s urging, offers [...]
By the time my colicky, cranky daughter was six months old my patience and sanity had completely whittled away. Between driving my son to gymnastics, school, play-dates, working part-time and suffering though endless bouts of the baby screaming, I found myself overwhelmed and bewildered. I realized I could not take even 5 minutes in the [...]
