Month: June 2009

How I felt when ds2 told me ds1 hurt his feelings on the bus — that’s how God feels every day when he sees his children hurting each other.

How Bob told me that I couldn’t have any of his rootbeer, because “rootbeard is for boys!”

I finished Ally Carter’s young adult book “I’d tell you I love you, but then I’d have to kill you.” Alias meets girls boarding school. Currently reading the sequel, “Cross my Heart and hope to Spy.”

Plodding through Barbara Cleverly’s “The Last Kashmiri Rose” (or something like that) a murder mystery set in India in the 1920s. I can’t really say I’m “plodding through” though, cause I’m only on chapter 3. It’s taking me a while to get hooked though.

How Bob has been a crack-up all week here by himself. He’s been 3 times as loud and milking his alone time for all it’s worth.

Things to blog about:
Mom of boys conference — summary, thoughts, opinions, goals
Carter telling me about his underwear: “it’s a waste”

Getting ice cream with Caleb and Caroline — boys vs. girls anyone?

If money can solve it — it’s not a *real* problem.

I guess the title should have given it away — a Diary? By a man? That being said, Mr. Knightly’s Diary is a SNOOZE. It’s like reading a condensed version of Emma, without all the interesting parts. And as much as it’s annoying to read Jane Austen knockoffs with all the fake Ye Olde English, it’s more annoying to read one without it. Like I really believe that Mr. Knightly used regular, modern, American English. [I need to figure out HTML for eye rolling smilies because that’s the one I would use most often.]

So I skipped to 1/2 way through the book and now there’s more action, but it’s not fleshed out at all. If you hadn’t read Emma, you wouldn’t understand the significance of Lady Jane Fairfax’s brooding self, or Miss Smith’s simple, but sweet nature.

After reading the books about Mr Darcy where his character was completely fleshed out, the reader was introduced to an entirely new circle of characters, this book is just lazy writing. Blah.

Yes, I read this book. I saw an article on her in Cookie magazine (a mag that generally annoys me, but was a good diversion during baseball practice) and her interview was really funny and witty and made her seem like a real person. They were promoting her new book, Mommywood, but when I saw her first book at the library, I decided to start there.

It was a fast (less than a day), entertaining read. It made me really glad that I’m not her and even if you gave me all of Aaron Spelling’s millions, I still wouldn’t trade places with her. Poor girl has family issues, self esteem issues and has had to work really hard to escape her reputation (and she still hasn’t succeeded in doing that). If I run across her book about being a mom, I’ll certainly read it. It will be interesting to read what sort of a mom she is after having a nightmare of a mom herself.