Eat, Read, and Be Mommy

Yep–we drove home from Idaho yesterday, and today is business as usual. (And having the kids gone is a beautiful thing this morning–the quiet house is helping me be productive.) But oh, it was lovely to be with family, and we exchanged the last of our Christmas gifts, and my mother made her incomparable doughnuts…

Anyway. Business as usual, right? I actually managed to finish multiple books on this trip, and Eileen Spinelli’s Where I Live was one of them. (I even handed it off to my 11-year-old when I was done, and since it’s a verse novel, she read it over breakfast. Which is a good thing, because it turns out it’s due and not renewable today!) It’s a lovely little book about friendship, moving, and family, and Matt Phelan’s illustrations are a perfect balance of poignant and adorable. It’s short enough that saying much more about it would give it away, but it’s a beautiful verse novel. Don’t miss this one!