slow mornings, simple joys

Learning Spanish is not easy let me tell you. I have been working on it for six years and I still only know the basics. Well if you don’t count the dirty words, but when you are married to a Mexican man you learn those words quickly. I mean honestly every argument early on in…

Communing with the dead is an everyday occurrence for PI Morgan Hawkes. A half-Wiccan witch who can commune with spirits of those caught between worlds, Morgan uses her talents to exorcise the trapped ghost or demon as part of the Paranormal Investigation Squad – until a string of murders with a voodoo slant prompts the…

Holly Hamilton has always been perturbed by the way her older sister, Ellen, seems to get everything. It’s especially tough living in the shadow of your sister’s cape when she’s a super heroine named Suprema! With one super-parent and one not, it was inevitable that the girls would turn out different. Unfortunately for Holly, she…

The title of the post just says it all doesn’t it? I mean really, who doesn’t love chocolate? Well if you are going to get chocolate you really should get yours from Chocolates by Joanne! Joanne was wonderful enough to send me a few samples to review. Let me say this first and foremost. this…

 The Valley of Heaven and Hell – Cycling in the Shadow of Marie-Antoinette, is  something of a different sort of book for me in that it’s travel but it’s travel on a bicycle. Susie Kelly has linked the journey to a historical journey, the route Marie Antoinette and her husband Louis XV1 took to escape…

La Oportunidad Perdida por Andy Andrews was a challenge for me since I am still learning Spanish. The vocabulary is manageable and the grammar is easy to read; however, I may have lost much of the insight simply because I don’t understand all of the words and their meanings.  While I am sure the insight…

As you all know I have been making an effort to eat better so when Helen’s Kitchen sent me a coupon to try out one of their items I thought why not? I decided to try the Fiesta Black Bean Bowl. It is only 290 calories and is filled with things like black beans, brown…

Most kids can be real plate throwers . When they decide that they’re done, that’s it…the plate goes flying. We have all been on our hands and knees on the floor cleaning up God knows what that ends up there. The Baby Diner company sent me one of their diners to try. The product is…

I remember growing up I used to make my Granny make new clothes for my dolls. Now Victoria is always wanting me to buy her dolls clothes.  Well let tell you I came across a wonderful boutique that sells clothes for 18 inch dolls.

    Susie finally graduated from her class and has become one of the youngest Guardian Angels. Of course Susie is 77 years old (even though she acts like she’s 12) but is the youngest and newest to gain Guardian status.  With her halo and status in hand Susie, along with her angel dog Sir…