I’m a few days late, but the #PopeCup memes are still funny, right? This one was my fave:
I need a book recommendation. I haven’t been too enthused about anything I’ve read lately, with a few exceptions: the Hunger Games Trilogy
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I ordered an ice cream maker; it should be here today (WOOT!) After seeing my post last week, my friend Dawn recommended the 2 quart Cuisinart, and my neighbor offered to loan me her 1.5 quart Cuisinart, so I jumped at the chance. We made mocha chip and cappuccino ice cream as well as peach fro-yo, and I caved and ordered the Cuisinart
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There is progress on the potty training front! I’m not ready to claim victory just yet, but Nathan actually asked to go potty when we were at the dentist’s office on Wednesday, and then subsequently peed in the potty when I took him to the bathroom. It’s a win, even if it’s a small one. Hope springs anew!
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Did you watch the ESPYs this week? Yeah … me, neither. But I can’t let a great opportunity to mention Chris Davis and the Kick Six pass without a mention – Auburn won for Best Game of the Year and Chris Davis won Best Play of the Year! Auburn was actually nominated twice in the Best Play category – the Prayer at Jordan Hare also got a nod. Do you want to see the play again? Sure you do!
War Eagle!
Sarah Kate starts another round of intensive therapy this week. We’re hoping for big things – strengthening, especially. School starts in a month and although she’s come a long way, she still has a ways to go to be walking completely independently.
Sarah Kate has a Miracle Marathon team! Well … technically she already had one before I posted yesterday, but a few of you have joined her already and that’s So. Great.
Have a great weekend!
This post was inspired by and is linked to Conversion Diary‘s 7 Quick Takes.
These are not new books but they are my recent favorites. If you haven’t read them they are slightly meaty easy reads.
“What Alice Forgot”. About a thirty something woman with kids on the verge of divorce who hits her head and wakes up believing she is in her twenties, childless and madly in love with her husband.
“Then She Found Me” A plain “spinsterish” Latin teacher who was adopted at birth meets her flamboyant talk show host birth mother who tells her that her father was JFK.
I’ll check them out! I’m not picky about new or old (I just read Pride and Prejudice!), just something decent and not too brain-consuming. 🙂
“The Guernsey literary and potato peel pie society” is great once you get used to the letter format – it really leaves you wishing it was a longer book!
I actually have had that one on my Amazon wish list for awhile but have never pulled the trigger. I’ll move it up!
“The Mourning Hours” by Paula Treick DeBoard – a total page turner, told from the perspective of a 4th grader about a family’s loyalty being tested when a girl goes missing in a close-knit Wisconsin farming community.
Also, have you ever read “Karen” by Marie Killilea? A bit more in-depth than you might want right now, but it’s an autobiographical story about the author’s family in the 1940s, when their second child is premature and eventually diagnosed with CP. A different era, but interesting to compare to the contemporary experience.
Both sound good, but “Karen” sounds especially interesting. I’m fascinated by that era which is not so far removed from our own. I happened upon a story on TV this weekend about former University of Alabama football coach Gene Stallings. Not sure how familiar you are with him, but his son John Mark had Down syndrome (he died a few years ago at age 46) and the story focused on their relationship and the impact John Mark had in his life. I remembered that we were given the book that Stallings wrote right after Nathan was born; I put it in a drawer and never read it. I think I’ll pull it back out and read it, as well.