A sticky hypothetical … and some reviews!

I could tell you all about my jaunt to the circus with Miss Maeve last weekend. I could, but then I’d have to tell you how we:
1) broke the dry-underwear streak that had reached a record five days
2) and then again just an hour later
3) and that ill-prepared me grabbed two pair of extra underwear before [...]

Book lovers unite!

Ooh, ooh, ooh! Thought I’d share two cool recent book-related website finds.
The first is for all you children’s book author wannabes (my name is soooo on that list!). Biguniverse.com is a fun new site that not only sells children’s books, you can read them online first for free — so if you’re looking to buy, but [...]

Book Review: Daring Book for Girls

This review is part of my participation in MotherTalk.
This, and all future reviews, will be archived on the Reviews tab above.

When I was in college, I managed a small independent children’s bookstore. From storytime under the big in-store elm tree to choosing from the myriad books, puzzles and realistic animal and bug puppets, children entering our shop were [...]

For the List Lover in You (Kids’ Books ‘07)

Publisher’s Weekly has released its Best Children’s Books of 2007 and School Library Journal has released its Favorite 63 books from the many it reviewed this year — and just in time.
With cold weather (we had snow showers yesterday with the biggest-I-kid-you-not snowflakes I’ve ever seen), some holiday home time over the next few days, a [...]

Smell the fresh ink?

My latest column is up over at AFTH, and as usual, the link to it remains nestled in my sidebar. But in the interest of saving you a click or two, here’s what I had to say in the Fall installment of Musings of an Adoptive Mama:
Changing Leaves, Changing Minds

Some use the start of the [...]

(Not) Ready for takeoff

Maeve and I leave the East Coast in two days to visit my sister (her beloved Aunt Kiki) and family, including my beloved nephew Dashiell.
In Arizona.
I’m uber-excited since I’ve never been there and haven’t seen them since they moved earlier this summer.
But I’m also afraid. Very afraid. This is Maeve’s first plane ride and since [...]

April showers bring May’s … book winner!

April has come and gone, and thus has my first prize giveaway. As promised here and then here, anyone submitting at least one recommended title of a children’s book involving adoption by month’s end would be entered into a drawing. The recipient — handselected by baby Maeve — would receive a brand-new copy of one of [...]

Win a children’s book! (Or, ‘I’ll show you mine if …’)

As I first noted here, I’m looking for your favorite children’s book with an adoption angle. I’ve gotten some good responses, but know there are plenty more out there that folks must be reading to their children (adopted or not).
I’m upping the ante a bit. For everyone that submits a book before the end of [...]

Call for children’s adoption books

I’m a book lover. (Hence my blog banner.) Worked in my local library while in high school. (Also worked in a Baskin Robbins, but that’s another story about another love.) In college, I was an English major, with a focus on writing and Shakespeare, and by day I managed a quaint children’s bookstore that had a [...]

Berry-good, cherry-good

The bad news?
My day began bright and early, in a dentist chair, white knuckles gripping plastic-clad armrests, while sounds of drilling reverberating relentlessly inside my head. An hour and a half later, I left the dental office with a small envelope of gargantuan pills to ease the arrival of forecasted pain and discomfort.
I arrived at my [...]