I told you I love Robert Parker and I finished this one last night. This is one of his Spenser stories--he's my favorite of the Parker's three protagonists: Spenser, Jesse Stone, and Sunny Randall.

This book was only moderately OK. Definitely not one of his better stories. If you love Parker you have to read it so you can say you've read them all, but if you've never read Parker, don't start with this one.

I just got three new ARC (advance reading copies) from a publisher yesterday. Hopefully I can review one of them by Monday! Happy reading this weekend.

Books--Glorious Books!

So, I’m going to blog about what I love (besides my family). I love books. I love to read. I love to talk about books. I love it when you strike up a conversation with a stranger and the talk turns to books. What have you read lately? What's your absolute favorite? Sometimes I’ll be sitting on a plane and crying over a book and you’ll know another true book lover by the knowing look in their eye or the nod of understanding.


Some of my favorite childhood memories have to do with books. In the summer I would bike ride several miles to the library. Not many people my age, including my own brothers and sisters, wanted to be at the library in the summer. In the dim and cool bowels of the library I could feel the books. They would quiver as I walked up and down the aisles running my fingers along the spines and I could hear them calling "read me, read me." There is something about a library that has such a comforting feel and smell. I feel nostalgic now when I visit our little local library and I’m thrilled that my daughter takes her young son to the library.

So, jump in. Offer your comments, tell me what you love and don’t love. And especially tell me if you disagree with my reviews.

MESSAGE FROM LEISY

goodbye and farewell

We bid Laney and Taylor farewell this evening as they boarded the "megabus" to Chicago! They were only here for the weekend, but it was splendid. Today church was quite a riot. One girl in the ward told me that she saw me (actually Laney) and leaned over to her husband exclaiming, "Leisy is pregnant and really pregnant at that! how did we not notice it before?!". I thought it was hystercial! It didn't help that we wore similar outfits.
My primary kids LOVED it. One told her mom that it was "creepy"! Kids are so dang funny.
Besides the art museum and Pasta Fina, we just kinda hung out. I am posting this picture and laney will probably KILL me, but I just can't help it. We had quite a few giggle fits today. Laney told her Latvia appendectomy story at dinner (the sister missionaries were over and had requested it) and it just never gets old or unfunny. The worst of the giggle fits was in the car while we were waiting for the Megabus to arrive. This is where the picture comes in. We started giggling about giggle fits and then really got out of control when Laney started losing bladder control. She is almost 7 months pregnant and is somewhat excused, but it was insanely funny. We were all crying. The people in the car next to us must have had quite the show watching us all make fools of ourselves. Sisters are good for that (laughing and making you look foolish).
The week has been stellar, but we are ready to have our house back to ourselves! Zeb experienced EXTREME sensory overload and is completely off the semi-schedule he had. Let's hope he can make a speedy and full recovery so that Kent and I can get back to sleeping :)

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Weekend in Idaho

I desperately needed to get out of town so we called Dave and asked if we could invite ourselves up to Boise.

The food was great despite the look on Daysa's face.

We headed up to Idaho City above Boise to go
sledding and tubing. In the picture:Penny, Sarah, Bob,
K'annie, Bridger, me on the tube, Daysa, Dave,
and Michelle. (Phil is taking the picture.)

This was so much fun.

Hiking in the deep snow. Michelle and David bringing up the rear, Phil taking pictures.

My baby Daysa on the day of the big haircut! Isn't that hair gorgeous? But it was such a hassle. It is still in a baggie in my office. I WILL send it to locks of love if I can just part with it.

Do you think she looks more like Goldilocks or Rapunzel?

OK already! I know I've been terribly remiss in keeping up with the blog but I'm back! Here is my cute Zebber and his Valentine love bug which his mummy reports he loves (but I'm sure he only loves it because it's from Nannie Annie).

Phil and Daysa are off to their Wednesday night church activities and I have the house to myself---ahhhh peace and quiet and now I can catch up on this blog, bake some cookies for my neighbor who taught my lesson on Sunday while we were out of town, go to the gym, work on my next lesson, send thank you notes to the Boise family who put us up and entertained us over the weekend, send a check to Bryson to pay for the Wii we bought from him, finish the laundry, go outside and see if I can see the lunar eclipse, and then maybe I'll watch some tv. Ha! Ha! And so goes the life of a fulltime working mom and wife.

When I get the weekend pictures posted I'll tell you about our weekend get-away to Boise. For now I do need to finish the laundry, bake cookies, and write thank you notes.

Add your comments please. I'd love to hear from you.