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Year: 2011

Review: The Sweetest Thing

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The Sweetest Thing by Elizabeth Musser Faith ~ Friendship ~ Forgiveness ~ Family The Sweetest Thing is set in the South – Atlanta, Ga – during the Depression Era. Two girls from completely different locations (Atlanta and Chicago) and social statuses (well-to-do socialite family and poor preacher family) find themselves brought together by unexpected happenings in their lives. The story is told through the eyes of the two teenage girls – Perri and Dobbs. Anne “Perri” Singleton’s life appears to be wonderful.  She has an active social life, attends a nice private school, enjoys the finer things in life, and…

A Day of Reading

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Project 365 – #172 It’s very rare (other than when we’re on vacation) that I get to sit down and just read for any length of time.  I do read at night, but I have to be careful not to get caught up in the book as I’ll end up staying up way too late.  I very much enjoy getting caught up in a good book. The one plus of not feeling all that grand is that I am able to just rest and read.  Munchkin worked on her schoolwork while I enjoyed reading a book.  She came in after…

Review: Living Fossils

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Living Fossils: Evolution the Grand Experiment Vol. 2 by Dr. Carl Werner Munchkin has enjoyed learning about dinosaurs and fossils from a very young age, so I’m always thrilled when we’re able to review dinosaur and/or fossil books.  Munchkin really liked the first book in this series, Evolution: The Grand Experiment, so I had high hopes for the second volume.  I was not disappointed. Dr. Carl Werner grew up in a Catholic church where he learned about and believed in creation and the other stories in the Bible.  As he headed into his teen years, he started to have some…

Review: Pieces of Light

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Pieces of Light A Dinah Harris Mystery by Julie Cave Pieces of Light is the final installment of the Dinah Harris Mystery trilogy. If you haven’t read the other books in this series, you’ll want to read those before jumping into this final book. Yes, the books can be read as stand-alone books, but everything really does build from one book to the next. Because of that, things make more sense if you already know the history of the characters from the previous books. In Pieces of Light, we join back up with Dinah Harris as she’s starting to pull…

Gluten Free Strawberry Cake

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Project 365 – #171 For Father’s Day, I wanted to surprise D with lots of yummy food and a delicious cake.  Unfortunately, he didn’t get any delicious food from me as I was under the weather.  I could barely be around food, but I was not going to let the day go by without making something for him. 😉 I wanted to use some of the fresh strawberries from our Saturday pick-up from Bountiful Baskets, so I decided to go with a strawberry cake.  I totally winged this one, so all measurements are approximate. I started with a Betty Crocker…