If Only

Do your kids have “if only” names? I love my kids names, but they do, in fact, have “if only” names. If only Mr. E hadn’t said “OH HELL NO”. If only it worked with our last name. If only someone else in our family hadn’t used it already. If only Mr. E didn’t say [...]

Fall Garden Update

I think I am even more excited this year about my fall/winter garden than I was about my tomatoes this summer.  If you want a tomato in Sacramento in the summer you can roll out of bed and find yourself at a farmer’s market just about any day of the week, but fresh lettuce in [...]

Tiny Prints: Holiday Cards

This is a sponsored post, Tiny Prints is giving me 50 free holiday cards to write about, well, uh, holiday cards.  So you know how when you get married everyone says “No one will remember your invitations, it doesn’t matter, people just throw them out.” Well, I think it has been well established that I [...]

Book Review: Daughter of Smoke and Bone

I think 2011 (are we in 2011? Sometimes I forget what year it is when my children wake me up at FIVE AM KILL ME NOW.), anyway, 2011 or whenever the blazes year it is now will go down as the year that I grew disillusioned with young adult fiction because so much of it [...]

Blathering 2011: In Which I Use the Word Amazing One Billion Times

The year we first had the Blathering, and I got to know the 17 amazing women that showed up in my backyard, I was just happy that no one killed me and ate me, and that everyone got along so well and I don’t think I quite realized what an amazing thing we had cooked [...]

Thirteen Things…

You Should Maybe Know (About Me and Other Things) Before You Spend the Entire Weekend at the Blathering. 1.  I never turn down a tequila shot. 2.  I sometimes get shy in large groups. 3. I giggle a lot. 4. I have charts and spreadsheets and printouts and inspiration pictures for the Blathering Decor but I [...]

Books I Read On My Kindle In August, September, and Part of October

136.  Q A Timeless Love Story.  I liked the writing and the storyline but the plot device (he lives his life over and over again, trying to fix it each time, by going back in time) got away from itself. 137.  Also Known As Rowan Pohi.  Not terrible, not great. It felt really really short? [...]

Books I Read In August, September, and Part of October

122.  Sisterhood Everlasting.  I have always loved these books, because they’re chick lit, obvs, but they also fall on just this side of a little weird.  And I think they’re well written for fluff.  Anyway, right off the bat something happened in this book that I thought was pretty uncool, actually, and that basically ruined [...]

House Tour: The Living Room (In Progress)

This is the room that has been giving me fits since we first moved in, because it’s so long and skinny.  Windows have been taken out and put back in, often in funny places, and because of that or because it was built in 1933 there’s no real place to put a TV.  (I am [...]