Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read


• Open to a random page


• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page


• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)


• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

This is not recreational homicide. This is protecting Lily Anne, and even after these very first moments of life, I will quite happily rip the veins out of anything that comes near her, and it is with the comforting thought that I stroll to the corner of the hall and glance toward the elevator.

pg 9ish Dexter is Delicious by Jeff Lindsay

Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read


• Open to a random page


• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page


• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)


• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

But he said nothing, just shook his head a few more painful times and then lay there quietly, for what seemed to me like a very long time, until at last he open his eyes and looked at me, and there it was, that dead- eyed blue gaze that had moved beyond all hope and light and into the darkest place there is. "You are,"he said, "what I have made you."

pg 239ish Dexter By Design by Jeff Lindsay

Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read


• Open to a random page


• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page


• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)


• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

The joy came at me like a comet, blazing huge and ponderous through a dark sky and whirling toward me at inconceivable speed, swirling in to consume me and carry me away into a boundless universe or rapture and all- knowing unity, love, and understanding - bliss without end, in me and of me and all around me forever. And it whirled me across the trackless night sky in a warm, blinding blanket of jubilant love and rocked me in a cradle of endless joy, joy, joy.

pg 301ish Dexter in the Dark by Jeff Lindsay

Literally literal

The other day during school Ethan and I were cutting out objects to finish the pattern on a worksheet. Most of the pictures had dotted line squares around them to show where to cut, the circles didn't. So I said "Just cut the circles square" or something to that effect. Then continued on cutting out the pieces that I had. Then Ethan says "Oh, I literally cut the circle into a square" I turned and looked and yes he had in fact cut the circle into the shape of a square. I forget that I have to be careful with what I say because Ethan always goes for the literal meaning. On the other hand, I was very impressed to hear a 5 year old use literally in the correct context.

Today we will finish Concept 3 Unit 1 in Moving Beyond the Page. We had a rough go at rhyming words but true to form a nights sleep and he just gets it (I would love to get a glimpse into the way his mind works)We are about 1/3 of the way through Mathmatical Reasoning Level B and we are so much happier with it then with RightStart Math.

February

Why, yes, I'm lumping the whole month together because it felt like the whole month was like this.

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I intended to start the second semester at the beginning of February, however we spent the first week and part of the second week covered in ice which means Daddy didn't get to work. The week following that we all spent a lot of time with our heads in the toilet. We got the really nasty stomach virus that has sent so many to the hospital for dehydration. We were lucky and while it took its turn with all of us we survived it without a trip to the doctor's office or hospital. After that I scrapped that and decided to wait until March.

 

American Girl

For Emerson's birthday we did a girls lunch at American Girl. The food was scrumptious! I can't wait to go back again and again. The girls had a blast and it was a nice way to spend the day.

We headed out early so that Emerson could do a little shopping. Craig and I decided ahead of time that we would let her get Bitty Baby, the doll she already had, some accessories or if she asked she could get a doll. She, of course, choose to get a new doll. She looked at all of the dolls twice and then decided on Rebecca. Until, she walked past Kit and her best friend and then she switched Rebecca out for both of them. On the next set of shelves, and thankfully closest to the register, was Julie. So she decided on Julie, whom she lov[gallery link="file"]

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Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read


• Open to a random page


• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page


• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)


• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

By Monday morning I still had not gotten in touch with Deborah. I called repeatedly, and although I became so familiar with the sound of the tone that I could hum it, Deborah did not respond.

pg 85 Dearly Devoted Dexter by Jeff Lindsay

Emerson's Birthday

On Emerson's birthday we opened presents, had some breakfast, and then went to see Tangled. After that, we came home played a little bit and waited for Grandma, Papa, and Matthew to come over for dinner. They brought with them a dollhouse for Emerson. She loves it and has played with it almost everyday.[gallery link="file"]

Emerson

I really neglected to blog about Emerson turning 3and I feel really bad about it so the next couple of posts will be about her.

I don't know how my sweet little girl, my baby, is already 3.  We made it through the 2s with little incident, so I guess it is only fair that the 3's are hitting us hard. She has become defiant and outspoken, funny and artistic.

She loves to dress up and sing songs into her Hello Kitty microphone. She plays mommy to her baby dolls and wizards, Mario and Luigi, and guns with her brother. Just when I think she couldn't be any girlier she runs through the room with a camoflouge hat on, a gun in her hand, or laughs at farts.

When Ethan and I sit down to work on school for the day she demands school work for herself. She loves to be read to and always wants to know what things say, even the signs on the highway.

She is entering her 3rd year of her love affair with Tinkerbell and has now also discovered Dora the Explorer.

She's completely day time potty trained and doesn't sleep in our room anymore. I guess you could say the kids are cosleeping or bedsharing now.

30

Yesterday, I turned 30 and oddly enough the day did not come with freak outs and panic like my 25th birthday did. I was calm, excited, and I feel very focused. I'm excited to see what this decade brings - like 2 teenagers, 10 year and 15 year wedding anniversaries, a second decade with the man that I love very much.

Five Question Friday

1. Have you ever forgotten your child in a store or at school?

Well I homeschool so it would be really hard to forget them there. No, I haven't left either of them at a store.

2. Where did you go on your very first date? (Like...first first, not first with your spouse or current significant other!)

First date, that was a long time ago and took awhile to remember, it was at the Dallas Morning News Dance Festival in 1997.

3. What's your "silly" fear? (We're not talking water and heights.)

Spiders

4. Confrontation: do you cause it, deal with is as it comes, or run far far away?

run far far away!!!

5. Wood floors or carpet?

I like wood floors and my husband likes carpet so we have carpet in all of the bedrooms and wood in other places.

Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read


• Open to a random page


• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page


• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)


• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!



I made the human choice. Funny when you think about it; me, making a human choice.


Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay pg 185