Recently, while reading ShopandTell's post on Mom Jeans and her ideas for clothes that fight the fashion industry's efforts to make us feel bad about our bodies, I got to thinking about the very fine line we walk as parents. We often find ourselves struggling to find that balance between parent and friend. I think this is especially true for mothers. And correct me if you disagree, but I would also argue that it's most true of all… Read More

My daughter requested these for her birthday this year but then at the last minute (I like to think in an effort to lighten her mother's load...), changed her mind and asked for root beer floats. While the floats were super easy and a simple treat of themselves, this recipe is one of our family's favorites. I love a dessert recipe that starts off with a cake

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They've arrived! The purple bracelets! (Click back there for the full explanation...). Remember way back in March when I posted on this subject? The purple bracelet craze that was sweeping the country? The one where the preacher from our hometown was being featured on every news and talk show across the country because of his novel concept: QUIT COMPLAINING! His idea was to put the purple bracelet on your wrist in an effort to remind … Read More

I really think that I thought this day would never come. My baby is 16 years old. That's about 5,840 days. 140,160 hours. 8,409,600 minutes.

How can it be? I still remember thinking she would never even arrive. She was so late! It was hotter than blazes, even though it was October in Oregon. We had moved there when I was pregnant, and the realtor had told us we wouldn't even need air conditioning. My husband had gone on a house-hunting… Read More

If you missed the first three posts on this topic, click here for the first, second and third entries to get caught up.

Last, but certainly not least, choose a name for your book club.
I'm not kidding! You'll find, over time, that this becomes very important to you. We are the Book Babes, or The Babes, for short. My husband even calls us that. I think it came out of a tongue-in-cheek reference to… Read More

This is the third of four posts on Starting Your Own Book Club. If you missed the first two, click here for the 1st and here for the 2nd to get caught up.

How to Select the Books

There are probably more theories about this than anything else. Here's what works for us.

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