Thoughtful Tuesdays: Twofer

So.Two more weeks and the end is near!Yay!I am on the needles and pins for summer reading to be over*. It’s been a challenge. A huge challenge and I am excited for the next stage. Enough about crazy library stuff. Let’s see… This past weekend, I was on the go! I’m sure normal people don’t have to specially post about…

Between the Covers: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar CHildren

Jacob is on a mission. As a child his grandfather told him stories that couldn’t have possibly been true but after the his grandfather dies under mysterious circumstances Jacob searches for the truth which takes him to the scene of his grandfather’s stories; a mysterious orphanage that may or may not have actually existed. When I read Ransom Rigg’s Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children I…

SOCS: Heat Rant

The Philadelphia area is having a heatwave, and it is HOT! HOT! HOT (calling Buster Poindexter). Normally I would be at work sucking up air conditioning splendor, but today I am home with Lily and we are trying our best to stay cool. We don’t have air; my choice that I am truly questioning but until I can mange to…

Am I Cheap?

Say it Rah-shay By Jul 24, 2011 1 Comment

r’s note: This started out to a Stream of Consciousness Sunday post but I needed more than five minutes. I went to a craft yarn sale today. The lady running the sale is moving, worked at Jo-Ann’s for years, taught classes and professionally sewed and crocheted so that means she had a lot of stuff. Oodles of yarn and books and…

What’s in a Name?

Day 21- What names would you NEVER name a child or pet? What name do you wish you had been named? Do you like the name of your blog? So. If The Dad had had his way we would have been calling The Bee Saffron. Yup. That was the name that he thought we should bestow upon our young child….