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Continue reading →: Let’s Break Gender Stereotypes.I’m kind of adoring this comic by Maritsa Patrinos of Seasonal Depression. Maritsa gets straight to the heart about what it takes to get girls interested with building toys like LEGOS. The answer isn’t juice bars or LEGO Shopping Malls or pretty pink anythings. It’s far more simple than that (I’m…
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Continue reading →: The 5 Best Books I Read This Year
Now that 2014 is nearly drawing to a close and I find myself reading a book that I certainly won’t finish before the new year, I thought this would be a good time to get all superlative and name the best books that I found myself reading this year. The…
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Continue reading →: Books Read in 2014
(now with handy star rating so you can tell at a glance how much I liked it) **** Freakonomics by Steven Levitt (January Book Club) – Finished January 12, 2014 – I enjoyed this book a lot more than I thought I would. Very interesting, whether you agree with them and their findings or not. – Full…
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Continue reading →: A Very Merry Rant & Well Wishes for the Season.
This year I spent months planning these awesome handmade greeting cards that the kids and I were going to make together to send to friends and family for Christmas. It wasn’t so much about being crafty as it was about being frugal tbh. I had a wake up call this…
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Continue reading →: The 10 Book Gif.
Alison at Hardcovers and Heroines shared this fun Book Gif Tag that looked weirdly fascinating and I’ve never blogged in Gifs before because I’m old and boring but I don’t want to luddite out and miss all the fun so here goes. Here be the rules: The person who tags…
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Continue reading →: A few links for today.
Here are a couple things online worth reading this week: I’m a new fan of Carolyn Hax who writes an advice column at The Washington Post. Here’s some advice she gave about dealing with friendship and politics not mixing well on Facebook. Here are the best books of 2014 according…





