The Truth about Happily Ever After: Nine Ways to Strengthen Your

Marriage on Valentine’s Day and Every Day
The quality of your marriage can make or break the quality of your life. Todd Patkin shares
proven ways to strengthen your relationship with your spouse…and become happier in the process!

Valentine’s Day is looming large on the horizon, and everywhere you look, commercials, magazines, store displays, and more are focused on helping couples plan the “perfect” February 14th celebration. Yes, if you’re in a relationship, it is important and enjoyable to celebrate your love on this special day. However, Todd Patkin has some advice for married couples especially: Romance,…

Sesame Street’s B is for Baking

As a stay at home mom, I have mastered the ability to multi-task while chasing a toddler around the house. I have also learned the ins and outs to cooking with a toddler. My daughter is somewhat picky and after discussing the situation with our pediatrician, her advice was to let our daughter help us cook. I know, it sounds scary, but it’s actually a lot of fun. I had to let go and let our daughter get messy (and the kitchen too!). Now that our daughter helps me cook, she’s more willing to eat the food…

New Books from Nosy Crow

I am a very blessed mother from the stand point that not just one of my children love to read books, but both of them.  We can spend hours on the couch or propped up in mama’s bed reading books.  We have a bookcase filled with books of every kind & for that, I am truly grateful.  Candlewick just recently helped to our collection by sending us the following three books:

Dinosaur Dig! by Penny Dale

What an adorable book to read to your child.  My son and daughter both love all things animal related, heavy vehicles and dirt-…

The Truth about Happily Ever After: Nine Ways to Strengthen Your

Marriage on Valentine’s Day and Every Day
The quality of your marriage can make or break the quality of your life. Todd Patkin shares
proven ways to strengthen your relationship with your spouse…and become happier in the…

‘Consent to Freeze:’ Reading the Fine Print For IVF By Carolyn Savage

Author of Inconceivable: A Medical Mistake, the Baby We Couldn’t Keep, and Our Choice to Deliver the Ultimate Gift

Our names will be forever connected with one of the most significant medical errors ever made inside a fertility clinic. In February 2009, through a process referred to as a frozen embryo transfer, another couple’s embryos were mistakenly transferred into my body. Eight months later, I gave birth to a baby boy who we relinquished to his genetic parents a few minutes after delivery. Following the pregnancy, it became important to us that this mistake never happen again. Through research and…

Idol’s Top 10 Scandals By Richard Rushfield, Author of American Idol: The Untold Story

Idol was perhaps the first show on television to have as much of a life off the screen as on.   These days we are used to The Hills girls, Bachelor contestants, Real Housewives and Jersey Shore housemates seeing their dramas spill over from the shows that made them famous to the covers of the tabloids and the greater celeb-obsessed blogosphere.

But when Idol debuted on the US airwaves in 2002, such a phenomenon was relatively unknown.  The internet was still in its infancy and network programming was a remote, pristine world, largely untouched by the hurly burly press.

What brought…

Felicity & Cordelia: A Tale of Two Bunnies by Lisa Jahn Clough

Felicity and Cordelia are two bunny friends.  They are as different as night and day! One day Felicity decides to go for a ride in a hot air balloon.  Cordelia stays home as she has no wish for high adventure.  Felicity on the way gets lost and lands far away from home.  All the while Cordelia is at home looking out the window hoping her friend is safe.  It’s a wonderful story for all ages and helps one realize the true meaning of caring deeply for someone, and what friendship truly is. The illustrations are just remarkable and beautifully…

An Apple a Day: Old-Fashioned Proverbs –Timeless Words to Live By, by Caroline Taggert

Another addition to the collection of “I Used to Know This Stuff” books, this is filled with old fashioned sayings we all heard as kids growing up.  If you want to get a fantastic gift for someone get them this collection.  They will enjoy it and maybe even pass it on to their kids!

From Old Testament proverbs to modern phrases like “the best things in life are free,” An Apple a Day takes a fun look at expressions that “have stood the test of time.”
Read through from start to finish or search through the list of…