I have 3 children, and my oldest is 5. He's my only boy, and I lovingly refer to him as our "experimental child" because every stage he goes through is new for all of us. Every technique, "hack", or trick that we try with him is done with a, "Will it work? Let's see what happens!" kind of mentality. Frustratingly, he is not your average textbook child. He is both extremely intelligent and … [Read more...]
Murder on the Orient Express
Who doesn't love a good Book-Made-To-Movie? I think it speaks highly of books when they are so loved they get immortalized on both page and screen. Plus, I get some geeky thrill out of catching all the details the screen writers missed/changed and pointing it out (most annoyingly) to whichever poor sap is sitting next to me. That's why I am *SO* pumped about 20th Century Fox's upcoming release … [Read more...]
Not What I Expected
I bought this book from Revive Our Hearts a year or two ago. The tagline, "The power of a soft warrior" caught my attention. I assumed the book was all about women with strong personalities and how those women (myself included) could somehow fit into the portrait God's Word paints of a True Woman. I was kind of correct in my assumption, but mostly not. I finally picked the book up this summer … [Read more...]