Teachingmommy: MaeMae Has 3 Teeth and Other Thoughts

Friday, March 21, 2008

MaeMae Has 3 Teeth and Other Thoughts

I know, I know I said I would put a recent pic of MaeMae up here but I can only do that at home and I just haven't had the time this week. I promise I'll get some up here this weekend, so if you're waiting for that, please check back!

Kevin is finally back in town. He had a good trip and we missed him. Maelin kept saying, "Da-Da" and then she'd look around the house for him. He missed her too...I cleaned up the house last night so he could spend some quality time playing blocks with her and watching her knock them down over and over again.

The house is going on the market today!! Our realtor (Kevin's cousin) is coming over later to put the sign up and give us our lockbox for the key. I had to clean up last night and we're expecting to make ourselves scarce on the weekends so they can show the house to whoever. Good times.

Maelin has 3 teeth now! She just got one in on the top...could explain why she's been so fussy at night lately. Poor baby. Oh, she's also going through a very stubborn stage. I remember how much I used to love her stubborn streak but now it's turning into so much drama! Our little drama queen does NOT want to get her pants changed, stop walking around, sit in her car seat, eat her yogurt, etc. She cries real tears and screams and arches her back if you try to get her to do something she doesn't want to do. It's pretty impressive.

I also have to give a HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Uncle Jeff today. We love you and we'll see you later at dinner. Hope you all have a great day today and I promise I'll get some pics up of the baby this weekend.

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Must Read Books & Great Authors

"A Tree Grows In Brooklyn" is a novel by Betty Smith first published in 1943. It relates the coming-of-age story of its main character, Francie Nolan, and her Irish-American family struggling against poverty in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York. The novel is set in the first and second decades of the 20th century. The book was an immense success, a nationwide best-seller that was distributed to servicemen overseas.
"Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell. This is my all-time favorite book and you MUST read this at least once in your lifetime. It has won the Pulitzer Prize, it is available in 31 different countries and it has been hearlded as "The Great Amercian Novel"
"My Sister's Keeper" by Jodi Picoult is a heart-wrenching novel about what it means to be a good parent, a good person and a good sister. Kate has had cancer since childhood and her younger sister Anna was concevied to be a perfect-match bone marrow donor for her. As Anna grows up, she struggles with how she and world will see the rights of her own body. This novel is the first book in years that had me crying. It was very well written and very enjoyable if you're in the mood for a tear-jerker.
"The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls is a memoir about a nomadic, deprived childhood told with the wonderment of a child who always wants to believe that Daddy will be a hero in the end and that Momma really does know best. You are enrapt reading about Walls and her siblings rifling through trash cans at school looking for food, doing the skedaddle in the middle of the night, or waiting for Dad to come home after another bender. It's a riveting story and a testament to Walls' desire to rise above a life that could have easily turned her into just another tragic headline. I really appreciated this story because of the very real probability that some of my students are living this very life.
One of my favorite authors (I have everything she's ever written) is Marian Keyes whose stories are set in Britian or Ireland. She is the internationally bestselling author of Watermelon (which is my favorite), Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, Rachel's Holiday, The Last Chance Saloon, Angels, Sushi for Beginners, Under the Duvet, and her latest, The Other Side of the Story. Her books have touched readers around the world, and they are now published in 35 countries and in many different languages.