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Day: December 5, 2011

  • Menu Plan Monday 12/5

    Menu Plan Monday 12/5

    What’s on the menu this week? Link up or find a ton more great ideas over at Organizing Junkie.
    I felt the need to use some pinterest inspired recipes again, this week (did I mention I think I have a pinterest problem….I might need intervention).
    Monday – Spaghetti. Mark has parent teacher conferences today, so I wanted something simple I wouldn’t have to fight the Princesses to eat. Spaghetti it is!  I thought about doing spaghetti baked in bread but decided against it.
    Tuesday – Toasted Ravioli
    Wednesday – Church potluck for the women. Mark and kids will be on their own, bwahaha!
    Thursday – Hamburger Helper
    Saturday – Lasagna Soup
     Mmmm, these foods have me ready for a great week of cooking!  While we’re on the topic of food, make sure you check out my current giveaways in the left sidebar! You could win coupons for Free Cranberry Naturals, and a Green Giant Steamers Prize Pack that includes a Free coupon as well!

  • Scary School by Derek the Ghost

    Title: Scary School
    Author: Derek the Ghost
    Grade level: 3 and up

    Scary School is a fun book about a school for monsters and humans. There’s no other school like it. Either you go to a monster school or human school. Scary School mixes the two races causing quite the disruption for some monsters like Mr Wolfbark.  I was laughing right from the start of this book. Despite it sounding like a scary book, there’s much more laughter in this book than screams. Mrs T the Tyranosaurus Rex detention teacher wears a little blue dress just made me smile. Then there’s the students, Charles Nukid a human who follows every rule, Petunia who spawns some creepy little petunias without even knowing it, and of course the author Derek the Ghost.

    Derek was a student at Scary School, but when a fire breaks out he dies. You can never really die at Scary School though, so Derek lives on as a Ghost. And thank goodness he did, or we wouldn’t have these stories about the goings on at Scary School! 

    Overall I truly enjoyed this book. It’s really written for a young elementary school audience, and I’m guessing little boys will enjoy this much more than little girls.  I read a few chapters to the Princesses, and they seemed to enjoy it, but the pictures were much more interesting to them than the story. 

    *I was provided with a copy of Scary School from the author Derek the Ghost for my honest review. All opinions are my own.