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I’m busy packing and writing posts for the first part of WBW (Tuesday to Friday.) I’ve set them to publish themselves every morning, but if they don’t, email Mike and ask him to figure it out ;o) Discuss amongst yourselves until I return! Mike spent 4 days last week in Memphis for a conference, which I hope he posts about here. The girls and I missed him but we were glad to get to spend last night and today with him before we head off towards Ocean Isle. World Breastfeeding Week is coming up, does anyone have any questions or suggestions for blogging topics? :o) But the girls and I are going to the beach next week with my parents and siblings. I thought it would be too tough to go when we still aren’t unpacked, but it will be a great vacation from the moving chaos. The only downside is that Mike can’t go. :o( It would be really helpful to have a parenting personal day so that I could focus on unpacking. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work that way. We have really been enjoying Paperback Swap! We’ve gotten rid of some embarrassing books no used book store would take off our hands in exchange for really great ones from a wide variety of genres. I took the time to add almost 200 books we’d like to our wishlist and several times a week, someone posts one of them and if we’re first in line, we get 48 hours to decide if we’d like it before it ends up for grabs to everyone. All but one of the books we’ve gotten were through our wish list. So, it did take some effort to set up but now we’re reaping the benefits! If you just list 9 books in the system, you get 3 credits (which equals three free books), and if you sign up with our link, we get a credit, too!
This week I drove past our local Wendy’s. The marquee read, “VA NILLA FROST Y — CO MING SO ON!” A Vanilla Frosty? What would Dave Thomas say? I know Wendy’s is losing market share but this is going too far… It’s big — big enough for Kate to ride her tricycle on and have a kiddie pool on with lots and lots of room to spare. It’s made of concrete — making the above activities kosher. It’s got a good, fat side for sitting even though we don’t have a porch swing yet. It’s got a great view of the neighborhood. We’re here. The closing went fabulous. We love our house, but each day brings newly discovered quirks. If you are an electrician and want to come to Birmingham and work for food, photo announcements or latin tutoring, give us a call! All our stuff is packed in the pods, in the possession of ABF and we’re resting at my parents’ before taking off for the Magic City early tomorrow morning. Our closing is early Wednesday morning and then we’ll be working on painting, etc. for a few days so please pray for our productivity, sanity and our sweet girls. The Church of England is considering a proposal to dethrone St. George as its official patron on the grounds that he is too warlike and offensive to Muslims. (HT: CrunchyCon blog) St. Alban is proffered as a replacement. |
Anne Bradstreet
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Paper Towns  | Green
Spiritual Parenting  | Anthony
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao  | Diaz
Absence of Mind  | Robinson
This Must Be the Place  | Racculia
Orange is the New Black  | Kerman
Shop Class as Soulcraft  | Crawford
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress | Janzen
Pippi Longstocking  | Lindgren
A Ring of Endless Light  | L'Engle
Evangelism: Doing Justice & Preaching Grace  | Conn
The Heart of the Matter  | Greene
The Glass Castle  | Walls
Eating for Beginners  | Rehak
Right Ho, Jeeves  | Wodehouse
Formational Children's Ministry  | Beckwith
Red Hook Road  | Waldman
Offering the Gospel to Children  | Pritchard
A Framework for Understanding Poverty  | Payne
This Is a Soul  | Berger
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman  | Gaines
Sima's Undergarments for Women  | Stanger-Ross
Through His Eyes  | Barrs
The Midwife  | Worth
The Young Unicorns  | L'Engle
The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest  | Larsson
The Cookbook Collector  | Goodman
The Go-Between  | Hartley
The Metamorphosis  | Kafka
The Death and Life of the Great American School System  | Ravitch
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle  | MacDonald
Perelandra  | Lewis
The Truth Will Set You Free  | Miller
The Optimist's Daughter  | Welty
The Girl Who Fell From the Sky  | Durrow
The Hole in Our Gospel  | Stearns
Remembering  | Berry
Portnoy's Complaint  | Roth
Descent Into Hell  | Williams
The Year of Magical Thinking  | Didion
Rock & Roll Will Save Your Life  | Almond
Turtle in Paradise  | Holm
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle  | Murakami
Rising Road  | Davies
Stuff Christians Like  | Acuff
The Moon by Night  | L'Engle
Plan B  | Wilson
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks  | Skloot
The Family Under the Bridge  | Carlson
The Tipping Point  | Gladwell
The Last Gentleman  | Percy
The Girl who Played with Fire  | Larsson
The Thirty-Nine Steps  | Buchan
The Supper of the Lamb | Capon
The Postmistress | Blake
Out of the Silent Planet  | Lewis
The Tales of Beedle the Bard  | Rowling
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay  | Chabon
Death Comes for the Archbishop  | Cather
Imperfect Birds  | Lamott
The Children of Noisy Village  | Lindgren
Patched Together  | Manning
When You Reach Me  | Stead
The Prodigal God  | Keller
The Heights  | Hedges
Song of Solomon  | Morrison
A Praying Life  | Miller
Kit: An American Girl  | Tripp
Olive Kitteridge  | Strout
The Quotidian Mysteries  | Norris
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo  | Larsson
Holiness  | Webster
From Fear to Freedom  | Miller
A Bear Called Paddington  | Bond
Life is a Miracle  | Berry
The Book Thief  | Zusak
Meet the Austins  | L'Engle
The Unbearable Lightness of Being  | Kundera |
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