These are some photos I took of another friends' daughter. I was loving her little leg warmers!
Monday, August 15, 2011
Thursday, August 4, 2011
The Hunger Games
The last two books I have read have been outstanding! I've been hearing things about The Hunger Games for awhile, but just never brought myself to read it. At the end of the school year the high school girl that helps in my classroom carried it into the room and set it down and went to work. Since I was on a prep I asked her about it. I knew I had to read the book when she told me she doesn't typically like to read but she loved the book. I totally agree with her! The writing was excellent and left me with vivid pictures of what the characters and District 12 would look and feel like. The arena came to life during the actual Hunger Games with the writing style. I also enjoyed the way the characters and relationships evolved during the story. I finished the book last night and immediately downloaded the next book, Catching Fire, and started it. Like usual, I will only post the B&N synopsis so I don't give too much away. This is the second book in a matter of weeks that receives all 5 stars!
In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the Games.
Monday, August 1, 2011
Dora blanket
My daughter absolutely loves Dora and Boots, so I picked up some fleece yesterday and made her a tie blanket. It was my first one and it sure was easy. The worst part was making sure the pieces were the same size and lined up. I used a yard and a half of each fleece.
I made the blanket after the little munchkin went to bed last night. Can you tell she loved it when I gave it to her this morning?
She was happy to "lay down with Dora and Boots!"
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
The Help
I just finished The Help a few minutes ago and it's by far one of the best books I've read in a long time! Rarely do I give a book 5 out of 5 stars, but The Help gets them. Just a couple weeks ago I posted a message on Facebook asking if anyone had read the book and if it would be worthwile to download to my Nook. At the beginning of the book it took awhile to get used to the jumping between characters and reading some of the Southern dialect, but I quickly got used to it. I loved the way some of the relationships blossomed in the book. I don't think I've ever read a book in which I hated a character as much as I hate Miss Hilly. I wish someone would have stood up to her. So I don't ruin anything for those of you who have not read the book yet, I will just paste the synopsis from B&N.
Be prepared to meet three unforgettable women:
Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.
Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.
Minny, Aibileen's best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody's business, but she can't mind her tongue, so she's lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.
Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.
Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.
Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.
Minny, Aibileen's best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody's business, but she can't mind her tongue, so she's lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.
Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.
Call Me Crazy...
Some of you already know I am a kindergarten teacher and mother of an active, lovable 20 month old daughter. One day in May, toward the end of the school year some of my teacher friends and I started talking about taking some classes over the summer. "Some" classes turned into 4 classes for 12 credits! Well, last night I finished those 12 credits! I'm pretty excited that I finished 12 credits in 7 weeks. I had 19 days to spare too! Now, I actually am going to get back to the things I've wanted to do this summer...applique some new shirts for my daughter, make some more hair accessories for her, read books for pleasure rather than class, shoot and edit some photos, and scrapbook! I am running off to start the T-shirts!!
Help Me Choose My Next Book
I am almost finished with my current book. Here are my three choices for the next book to read. Please help me decide!
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