Eat, Read, and Be Mommy

My dishwasher died this morning, folks, and I’m feeling it already.  My hubby’s consulting Consumer Reports and investigating the possibility of leftover President’s Day sales, you understand, but at this moment, my dishwasher is dead.

Have I mentioned how much I hate washing dishes by hand?

Anyway.  That being the case, I’m going to do a barely there review–I read the second Franny K. Stein book tonight (Attack of the 50-Ft. Cupid), and it was entertaining, fabulously illustrated, and oddly successful in its occasional moments of poignancy.  (I don’t prefer the word “butt” myself, but it is what it is; it’s used only a couple of times, and never really gratuitously.)  I’m setting it out for my kiddos to read, and I’m sort of looking forward to the next one, so if you need a short, easy chapter book series, this is continuing to be worth it.