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Comeback
We are + two chickies – one gerbil and busy busy. We are enjoying spring and counting down to summer, when we will begin to count down to fall/winter. Fwinter? I want my break from school drop offs/pick ups! Meanwhile the weather’s generally gorgeous (you know, minus the random 95 degree days) and we’ve been out in the nature. By which I mean, we went for some walks on my favorite trail. Hiking, it is not. It is more … of … a drainage ditch…
It Lives Upstairs
Flora and Bear have been saving all their pennies to buy a rabbit. However, I insisted they save additional pennies for a hutch, food, etc. So they’ve been saving for months. And recently I’ve noticed they would rather spend their money on other things than keep saving for a pet they seemed to believe they’d never get; so, we discussed this and decided to buy a gerbil instead. It lives upstairs. Ta da:
book reviews
Booksneeze Review: The MoneySmart Family System, by Steve and Annette Economides
The Economides, hailed as ”America’s Cheapest Family” in another of their books, want to help other families learn to manage their money, and pass that information on to their children. They say their book is for those parents who “define successful children as those who want to be independent and self-sufficient adults, able to stand on their own two feet and look back at their parents with a smile of gratitude for helping them to be autonomous.” Sounds pretty good, right? They go on to detail their…
Booksneeze Review: The Final Summit, by Andy Andrews
I heard Andy Andrews speak at last year’s Women of Faith event in San Antonio. He was an energetic and interesting speaker, and I was curious about his writing. The Final Summit is the sequel to The Traveler’s Gift, which I have not read. However, I suspect few readers would have trouble following the plot or characters. The Final Summit focuses on David Ponder as he travels time to save the world. There are life lessons delivered via cameos by Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln,…
