Deck the Halls with Easter Bunnies
Breaking News: THE EASTER BOX IS FINALLY BACK IN THE ATTIC. I’m not a big decorator for the holidays, for two reasons: 1) I’m lazy, and 2) We have too much stuff. Here’s how our decoration cycle for Christmas goes, in ten easy steps. 1. Find empty box or unobtrusive corner. 2. Clear surfaces (i.e. … Read more
Stocking Stuffer Bags
Raise your hand if you LIKE wrapping stocking stuffers. Anyone? For me, it usually involves neck cramps and teeny tiny pieces of wrapping paper and teeny tiny pieces of tape and why do we wrap them anyway if they get stuffed in a stocking? I guess some people don’t, but since this is how we … Read more
Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
The set-up: Dash finds a red notebook in the shelves of his favorite used bookstore. Inside Lily (or her brother and his boyfriend) has written a series of challenges intended to weed out unworthy suitors. Instead of putting the book back after he has proved himself worthy, Dash keeps it, writes down more challenges, and … Read more
The Writer’s 12 Days of Christmas
Instead of a book review, I have to do something festive. Okay, and this post was supposed to be for Christmas Eve, but I never got around to posting it. But really, if I’d posted it on Christmas Eve, I wouldn’t have known that the last one was actually true! And in the original version, … Read more
Mommy’s Christmas Sweatshop
“If you don’t put another bead on that ornament, I’m taking the beads away!” Nothing like threats to really foster that Christmas spirit. To my credit, she asks to do the craft project. “Oh!” she says. “I want to make another orna-na-ment.” To her credit, she’s two. After threading five or six pony beads on … Read more
