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5 Must Reads for the Back to School Mom

How do we prepare for out littles going into the next grade, for putting up the pool bags and replacing them with backpacks waiting to be unpacked of their bursting loose leaf papers? It's such a transition, from not caring about bed time to bed time being the most important time of the day...  This year, my littlest is off to kindergarten. I don't even know how that happened. Just yesterday, I was buying leggings for her chunky little baby legs on Etsy and now...she wants jeans from Justice and her PBTeen backpack is the best thing to happen since Christmas.  The big kid is off to great places...third grade. I am so excited for him because that's really the grade where I remember big things happening and learning about the world and how it works. He'll be reading some of my favorites like Charlotte's Web and Percy Jackson... It's such an exciting age.    I think the hardest thing for me about my kids going to school is the handing off of the baton. A

Show Us Your Books: July Edition

I read some great books this month! I only wish I could have read more!  My favorite by far was One True Loves, read my review from last week here  If you have read any of these, please let me know what you think!  One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Re id -The first book to make me cry this year so far. It was the mushy, over the top love story that actually didn't make me cringe, because I usually think some love stories are just too mushy for me. But this, this was perfect. One woman, two men...one she thought she had lost forever and the other, the one she never thought she would love... like I said, it sounds like a Nicholas Sparks wishy-washy love story but it's actually really beautiful.  Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty  - Moriarty is the author of some of my all time favorites so I bought this without even reading the synopsis. So far, it's blah and just a lot of set up for whatever big mystery happened at an ill-fated barbecue. Whatever happene

Book Review: The Children by Ann Leary

Have you ever met a book you just wanted to hug?  If you just nodded, we are soul mates. Because it does really happen.  I listened to The Children by Ann Leary via Audible and it was like just listening to a dear friend tell a story...  That is if you find yourself with a friend who is recluse lies about her life on a made up "mommy blog" sleeps with the groundskeeper and lives in her deceased step father's dilapidated house on the lake.  Because you know, that happens a lot too. I just couldn't get enough and when the book ended, I instantly missed Charlotte.  A story about an unconventional family with secrets and worries is my jam . I just loved all of the characters. Leary writes in a way that makes me feel like I've met new friends but also doesn't give it all away at the beginning. There is so much to absorb that you have to keep reading.  Charlotte, her sister and mother all live in a rambling old house that once belonged to