What's In My Teapot?

This season of Advent is moving right along! Today we opened the box with the number 16 adhered to the side. December may be passing in it's usual flurry, but our family has found our Advent time to be very special, just as I hoped it would be! It only took one box for the children to understand what was going on, and now Parker starts talking about it as soon as we sit down to read the Bible-story! Of all the little treasures found inside, his favorite is by far the candy ! You already know that I have a special fondness for children's books, but the three books I am reviewing today are proof that this love began long before I had children of my own: they all have Joanna Wadel written inside as the mark of ownership! One is dated 2001 and two are from 2005! It's a bit strange that I haven't added to the repertoire now that I do have children, but we're trying to remedy that with plans to give each of the children a Christmas storybook as their Advent surpris...

It's Tuesday already! I certainly intend to post on days other than Tuesdays and on subjects other than books, but this past week swept by and between doing the necessary work to keep the house afloat and using our home only as a bed & breakfast over the weekend as we were away so much, I didn't have extra time for writing, even though there are various things waiting in the wings that I would enjoy telling you about! I thought I would go back & forth between adult & children's books, so this week I will review a book I just finished on Sunday. The book was borrowed through the library on my kindle and I finished reading it in the car while Wesley & I were on our way to Blacksburg, VA for the funeral of his great uncle. Interestingly enough, the book (a work of fiction) was written about the World War 2 era- and Wesley's great-uncle was a World War 2 veteran. All the Light We Cannot See , written by Anthony Doerr, is amazing. Really amazing. And ...