My daughter is a free-spirit (there you go mom) in the making. She is nothing like me, which is a good thing. I actually hope to become more like her. Minna Beana is very generous, loving, easy to get along with…Okay, I am and can be those things, but she doesn’t sweat the small stuff. At the tender age of four, you may wonder what she has to be so troubling; absolutely nothing. For her, life is good, as it should be for all of us. She makes flowers out …

A few months from now, this book is going to keep us very warm and cozy because Winter is the Warmest Season. I don’t know why it is that somewhere in the middle of a burning hot, scorching summer I get occasional pangs for a cool winter morning or why a crisp winter day, with cold drops of rain, make me stare out of the window looking for summer sunshine. Can I ever be happy? My oldest son said, “You always read that book.” I guess he’s right because, this …

Okay, we all know there is no such thing as ghosts. Well, my children do too and NO, I’m not filling their heads with scary thoughts and the occult. That said, the The Bake Shop Ghost is an enjoyable, wish I could taste all of the food story. The selection of the day is baked goods. I wonder if that is why I too like this book.

Okay, so far, I’ve spent almost $30 in late fees. I thought that by going to the library and borrowing books instead of buying them that I would be utilizing available resources, help save a tree, and also keep more money in my pocket. Well, my consistent inability to return books on time has put holes in my pockets and left no change behind. At first, I was doing really well. We

would get enough books to last us for one month and then return one month later, return some and …