The latest National Geographic has the most interesting article about Hatshepsut, The She-King of Egypt.

After her husband died, she took the throne until her stepson would be old enough to inherit the throne. However, she reigned for 21 years which is long after her stepson would have been able to rule. Her plight to keep the throne reminded me of ( Read more... )

Now that we get home from spending Thanksgiving at Gatlinburg with Hilary's family, I feel like my life is going in fastforward. Lots of life is just moving so fast that I'm forgetting to live it ( Read more... )

I finished Twilight last night. I won't say much else for anyone who hasn't read it other than I highly recommend the book. Hilary surprised me today by picking up the second book in the series which I promised myself to put aside until I finish the latest round of papers to grade.

Okay so Bella just went out to dinner with Edward after somewhat ditching her girl rivals. Bella has this Lois Lane quality about her; she is accident prone and her man, Edward, is always there to rescue her though he uses his telepathy. What I found the most interesting about dinner is how easy it was for Bella to understand that Edward is a ( Read more... )

I finally decided to read Twilight after a couple of friends have been raving about the series for awhile. At first, I was skeptical because it is a vampire love story completely different from Anne Rice and I really liked Anne Rice. As a literature major, I have difficult reading books without studying them, so it's nice when I find a relaxing and ( Read more... )

Bailey's on fall break this week. Hopefully, I'll be able to play a few play-dates with a few neighbors during his break. Unfortunately, Bailey brought home a little bug. He's okay but I've been wiping his little nose. I, on the other hand, have been sleeping most of the day after I got back from teaching class this morning. I think the medicine ( Read more... )

Class is going well but as the professor, I really should not say much else. Hilary's classes started today. He is taking all online classes this semester. We played the Catan Dice game this week and we've been watching our neighbors seasons of Lost. What a great show!

I started a potty chart for Bailey and Jakob. I think that Jakob is almost potty ( Read more... )

Sometime next month, Hilary and I are taking the boys to see WALL-E and I am super stoked. Bailey still loves watching all the trailers and attempting some games, while I've been searching the web to find previews of the new toys. With Bailey growing love for robots, I expect WALL-E to go over well at our house. Did I mention that I am super stoked ( Read more... )

 A sadness falls over the house. Out my entire set of smurf glasses, my Gargamel and Azrel glass has broken. I used to joke that if any breaks it would be this one because it's a personal favorite that I use often and I don't have an extra. It's also the only glass out of all my smurf glasses to have two names printed on it. Ah well, it's also just ( Read more... )

Putting down a good book is like pushing pause in the middle of a movie. Today, I finished my walk with Lily in the pages of The Secret Life of Bees and I'm going to miss Lily.