Oh! Pioneer

You read Pioneer Woman already, don’t you?  Tell me you read Pioneer Woman?  I had, but then hadn’t for awhile.  Then I realized her cookbook (drool, swoon) had just come out.  Just a few days before I visited and I wanted it, oh I wanted it, but I’m trying to control my spending and acquiring, [...]

Some Bits…

Happy October!  Can the year be reaching it’s final stages already?
1.  I’m keeping the notebook.  If nothing else it helps keep my monkey mind in order.  I really do like having my schedule, my meal plan, my grocery list and such all in one place.  I just have to drop the perfectionist thing down a notch [...]

Pie Eating Contest

The baking binder is done.  And in all honesty after this post going to be split in two, it’s way too heavy.  After spending the better part of two days weeding through recipes and lovingly giving them this home, you better believe I”m trying one of these babies tonight.  This afternoon my Mom, sister and [...]

Book Sharing Monday: Little Bunny’s Sleepless Night

“Little Bunny’s Sleepless Night” by Carol Roth, illustrated by Valeri Gorbachev
One of my all-time favorites.  I love Valeri Gorbachev’s illustrations.  Also, see Heron and Turtle and Peter’s Picture which also contain similiar lovely illustrations by him and were also written by him as well.
“Little bunny had no brothers or sisters.  He had his very own [...]

Book Sharing Monday: Mrs. Biddlebox

“Mrs. Biddlebox” by Linda Smith, illustrated by Marla Frazee

Because who doesn’t want to mop up their bad day, put it in a pot, mix it, punch it and cook it up for cake!
“The birds gave her a headache.  There were creakies in her chair.  A breeze blew dank and dreary.  And mussied up her hair.”

Mailcall!

I was lucky enough (thank you Sutter!) to be the winner over at Red Gate Gardens and received this delightful package on Wednesday!
Not only did she send me the most heavenly smelling coffee, but an awesome postcard and these two vintage books.
Narcissa Whitman, Pioneer Girl, by Ann Spence Warner, copyright 1953.
Heroines of the Early West [...]

Book Sharing Monday: The Dancing Tiger

“The Dancing Tiger” by Malachy Doyle, paintings by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher

“If you will keep my secret, and never tell a soul, then you may come and dance with me on nights the moon is whole”

Book Sharing Monday-Library Lion

Given to Ems by my sister (the of all things, librarian), I actually found this delightful book in those endless wanderings on Amazon.com.  The here’s what others bought cycle of just one more…..one more…one more.
“Library Lion” by Michelle Knudsen, illustrated by Kevin Hawkes.
It’s the story of a lion who wanders into the library and becomes [...]

Book Sharing Monday-Knitting Nell

It was so hard to pick my first choice for this, there are so many great ones.  So I thought that I would start with one we just finished reading.
“Knitting Nell” by  Julie Jersild Roth

After a boy tells her she has a voice like a cricket with a pillow over it’s head Nell doesn’t talk [...]

More Book Love

I sorted through the books in the girls’ rooms last night until almost 11p.m.  It was wonderful.  Quiet.  They stacked up around me.  A pile of hardbacks.  A  pile of boardbooks.  A pile of paperbacks.  A pile of activity books.  In the end it was a very small stack indeed that will make it’s way [...]