December 2009
Tuesday, 22 December 2009

I can’t believe Christmas is right around the corner!  I finally have all my shopping done, the house cleaned (well, the living room, kitchen, bathrooms and my room.  I don’t stress about my teens’ rooms. If they want it clean, they’ll clean it …) and our Christmas tree purchased and decorated.  But I can’t relax […]

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Sunday, 6 December 2009

I’ve been on a knitting craze lately, making small things out of the odds and ends of my stash of yarn.  Believe me, I have quite a stash.  I have a variety of leftover yarn from projects past that are begging to be used for SOMETHING.  Something useful, something cute.  A couple of years ago, […]

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Saturday, 5 December 2009

WHEN YOU REACH ME by Rebecca Stead is a book about the wonderful, confusing, and heartbreaking complexities of childhood friendships. This is the story of eleven-year-old Miranda.  It begins with her struggles to understand the reason why her best friend Sal doesn’t want to be around her anymore.  It is during this time that she […]

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