The newest “Oprah’s Book Club” pick has been announced and it is “A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations: Two Novels” by Charles Dickens. The special edition book is basically the two books with some “enriched” content including “illustrations of 18th century fashion and culture in Dickens’s Victorian world, the early reception for both […]
Archives for December 2010
The Party is the Present
Each year it seems like I hear about bigger and more expensive birthday parties for kids. I have known parents to spend thousands of dollars on birthday parties for one-year-olds! That just doesn’t fit in my budget. And yet, my kids always want to do something different. Some years we have kept it inexpensive with […]