Category: Books

1. Vacuum the family room. 2. Take Hambet to swimming lessons. 3. Make dinner (bratwurst on the grill.) 4. Wait for the THUMP on the doorstep that means the UPS man’s brought my book: . Drop everything and start reading, remembering to take it slowly. 5. Kick myself for not having plugged this book when… Continue reading My Saturday Plans

Dear Mr Luse has a post up in which he fails to share with us his feelings on finding his toothpaste tube emptied of toothpaste. He does allude to a thread somewhere on the Interweb discussing the relative intelligence of men and women, and then provides his own commentary, including a salacious confession to asking… Continue reading Girls v. Boys

aka Book 7, the title of which has been revealed to be Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I have no idea what that means.

Where does the time go? Hambet, who was not even two when this blog started, is headed off to kindergarten next Monday! We’ve been getting ready slowly but steadily over the summer: new clothes, new shoes, picking up a few supplies here and there…. We started serious preparation this week by practicing the morning routine:… Continue reading The Last Good Woman, or, how not to prepare for kindergarten

A nice post by Father Oakes on the First Things blog: …within her own chosen sphere she has become, by almost universal consent, one of mankind’s greatest moral teachers. That we have so readily forgotten her lessons must surely have something to do with why the world is now in the state it is in.… Continue reading Jane Austen’s Moral Vision

Dear Mr Dreher: PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE give us the privilege of reviewing your book. We are the Hip Homeschooling Mamas! well, Pansy is, anyway.

Jonathan Yardley has a reflection on Flannery O’Connor’s letters: The Writer Who Was Full of Grace .

Read it. NOW. Of course, giving this book to a Sleepy Mommy to read is just preaching to the choir. But after reading it, I just wanted to snatch up Hambet, hold him tight, and never let him out of the house again. Eberstadt acknowledges the knee-jerk “mommy wars” objection (She’s making us feel guillllllllltyyyyyyyyy… Continue reading Home Alone-America: The Hidden Toll of Day Care, Behavioral Drugs, and Other Parent Substitutes by Mary Eberstadt