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For me, Les Miserables always brings me back to middle school- when I was in our chorus group (yea, their 'bar' was LOW), and "Castle On A Cloud" from Les Miserables was "the" song to sing. The teacher played the soundtrack version for us, and I was hooked. I spent years after that listening to the Les Miserables soundtrack before I actually saw it performed on Broadaway. When they announced it would be made into a movie- I wondered how it … [Read more...]
This past year, my son Ryan learned about the Diary Of A Wimpy series at his school book fair. At the time, he wasn't exactly a book worm and at 6 years old, I wasn't really sure if the series was for reading level. Still he was instantly drawn in by the cute cartoon on the cover and was excited to purchase it. To my surprise, he finished that book within 2 days. I couldn't believe it! We were so excited he was excited about reading, we … [Read more...]
For the past 2 weeks, Laina has been asking to go see the Katy Perry movie. I have to admit, part of me (no pun intended) wanted to see it too, but I questioned if it was appropriate for young kids. I read reviews and looked into the movie's PG rating (which was for song lyrics- read full details at the end of this post) and decided it would be ok. Today was the first day the movie was showing and when Laina heard the big news that we would … [Read more...]
All of the buzz about The Great Gatsby ( a movie I'm unsuccessfully campaigning to get James to see with me), has left me drooling... and not over Leonardo DiCaprio. Fashion in the twenties was arguably the … Read More
My kids LOVE cakepops (who doesn't?) Cakepops are the first thing they ask for when I mention stopping at Starbucks. We've had them as party favors, but we've never really made them before in the … Read More
