My son Ty thinks that because he is Santa Claus it also means he is the King of the North Pole due to the elves telling him the North Pole is his kingdom. Ty now believes he is both Santa Claus and a king. His new thinking caused a bit of a funny thing to [CONTINUE READING]
Dec 062010
Mailbox Monday is where other bloggers write about the books they received the previous week. The Mailbox Monday is now going on a blog tour with the host this month being Lady Q @ Let Them Read Books. Visit her blog to see what books made it her way and check out the others who [CONTINUE READING]
I love snow globes! They’re so darned pretty. And intriguing. Remember shaking a snow globe as a kid and being fascinated by the blizzard you had just created? Boy, I do. Oh, the power! And the little scene inside always fascinated me. I’m a Seattle girl and the first snow globe I ever owned was [CONTINUE READING]
In Wally Lamb’s pitch perfect new novel, it is 1964. LBJ and Lady Bird are in the White House, Meet the Beatles is on everyone’s turntable, and ten-year-old Felix Funicello (distant cousin of the iconic Annette!) is doing his best to navigate fifth grade—easier said than done when scary movies still give you nightmares and [CONTINUE READING]
Dec 272009
I know I said in the last Sunday Salon that I wouldn’t be posting one after Christmas but I just realized that this Sunday is the last of the new year so I had to post one more time for 2009. I won’t talk about my personal 2010 goals are but if you’re interested, you [CONTINUE READING]
Home for Christmas by Heather Graham It broke Travis’s heart to see Isabelle go, but he was the Yankee captain who had commandeered her home and she was a daughter of the Confederacy. Yet even in the war-torn South, there was room for a Christmas miracle or two. The Wise Virgin by Jo Beverley Their [CONTINUE READING]
The Wallflowers are four young ladies in London who banded together in their wild and wickedly wonderful searches for true love. Now happily married, they join together once again to help one of the world’s most notorious rogues realize that happiness might be right under the mistletoe.… It’s Christmastime in London and Rafe Bowman has [CONTINUE READING]
Christmas Past by Iris Johansen…Killara, Arizona, 1893. Kevin Delaney doesn’t know what to make of the Gypsy beauty he finds rummaging in the attic of Killara, his family’s estate. The waif claims she’s there to recover an old mirror with extraordinary powers. While Kevin doesn’t believe her mystical talk, there’s no doubt that a kind [CONTINUE READING]
Nov 292009
Man has this week flown by fast! I’m sooooo ready for the kids to go back to school Monday too! LOL Love my kids but goodness…5 days is enough for all three in addition to my husband being home is way too much! EEE I’m so behind I fear because I don’t have as much [CONTINUE READING]
