Home Sweet Homemaker

Inspired by reading Peter Walsh’s Its All Too Much, I decluttered our bedroom. My first round produced 5 boxes and 3 30-gallon bags full of stuff I no longer use. Most of it was baby stuff that had made its way into our room after it was no longer needed in the nursery.
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Two out of the three books I checked out this month, Visual Quickstart Guide: Dreamweaver MX for Windows and Macintosh by J. Tarin Towers and Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web, Third Edition by Håkon Wium Lie and Bert Bos, just didn’t get read. These are books I need to reference while sitting in [...]

The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts designed to “restore reading to the center of American culture.” Amen to that. More books, less TV. That’s my initiative. Learn more by visiting the Spartanburg County Libraries website. Free paperback copies of the Great Gatsby will be given away at Gatsby [...]

I am so grateful for the women who come to my home for book club every Monday. First of all, Mondays are the hardest day of the week because my girls have been used to their daddy being home all weekend but then he has to go back to work. It gives me something to [...]

I decided to go for a variety of genres this month since July didn’t fare well on the reading front.

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
I remembered Judy Blume from childhood and was reminded of her books when my mom and nephew started their “Judy Blume book club” during our beach vacation this [...]

What a bummer! I checked out three books from the library before going on vacation, none of which were on my list of books I want to read. Even after investing several chapters of reading, I decided to return them without needing to know how they ended.
Thirty Nothing by Lisa Jewell
Thirty Nothing was well-written with [...]

While I enjoyed Amanda Brown’s second novel, Family Trust, I wouldn’t buy it. It reminded me of one of those romantic comedy movies. Think “Maid in Manhattan” or “While You Were Sleeping”, where the characters have entirely unrealistic circumstances with happy ending guaranteed. The story involves the co-guardianship of little Emily whose parents just died. [...]