Fall reading has been a bounty of riches! I’ve jumped right back into my Kindle-while-nursing habit, and since I’m nursing a lot, and need good books to keep me awake at 2AM (see category below) my reading time has increased in both quality and quantity. I’ve read- ready for this?- 20 books since Eleanor was born, […]
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Summer Reading Round-Up
I’m bringing back book reviews with a new approach! I stopped doing monthly posts about what I was reading because: They were getting too long and cumbersome. In a sense, they even held back my reading life because I didn’t want to review more than 5 or 6 books a month. I struggled with what […]
Make A FUN Resolution
I read a statistic recently that over half of all Americans do not make New Year’s resolutions. Putting aside the arguments that “they don’t work” (they do for some people) and “they haven’t worked for me in the past” (maybe you need to make them more specific or manageable) and “they’re stupid” (you’re entitled to […]
My Stay-At-Home Style Makeover, Part 2: Stitch Fix
As I wrote in last weekend’s post, I’ve been getting a little tired of my casual-mommy look. Up until last year, I spent much more of my clothing budget on work clothes, since I (1) spent more of my days there and (2) believe in dressing well for work. It’s time for a shift, however; […]
My Weekend of Fall Family Fun
For the past two days, I’ve been starting blog posts and not finishing them. I think I’m feeling a little… rebellious. Not burnt out, or blocked, or anything like that, just in the mood to shirk work and have fun. This mood almost never strikes me.
Making Weekend Plans
Despite the fact that I’ve moved away from strictly books in this blog, it wouldn’t be Words from the Sowul without a little homage to Laura Vanderkam now and then. I’ve had her latest mini e-book, What the Most Successful People Do on the Weekend, in my Kindle queue for a few weeks. It’s the […]