I finally finished reading A Dual Inheritance.
(photo from Amazon.com)
I liked it, but I felt like I was reading it FOREVER. It’s the kind of story that follows two college friends from their college years to their grandparent years, and it seemed like it was happening IN REAL TIME. But I liked it and would recommend it.
(photo from Amazon.com)
I watched Tiny Furniture and ended up sobbing because I was picturing my own dear daughter growing up to be like Lena Dunham’s character. The same thing kept happening when I was watching Girls. This is a new entry, then, for my list of Indicators of Middle Age: it’s when we start identifying the female lead with our daughters/nieces instead of with ourselves.
And I wrote this:
(screen shot from BlogHer.com)
Absolute Beginners Guide to Naming Your Baby. It was an unusually fun project, and involved writing text to fit in cute boxes so that it could be formatted for a print-out (I would love to take credit for that, but alas: I did not do the pretty formatting).
Where were you when I was naming kids 27, 25, 23, and 21 years ago? That crib sheet is fabulous, and would have prevented many, many hormone-fueled tears. (When the stick turned blue with Boy#4, the very first thing Husband said was “Please tell me we don’t have to discuss names for a while.” THE VERY FIRST. Hrmph.) Also, if anyone a few left-over girl names, I still think ours were lovely.
OK, my browser is acting up like crazy, so I don’t think my comment went through, but forgive me if this will be a duplicate:) As far as I can remember, it was this!
The crib sheet is so cool! Also, OMG, Swistle has a last name! New online step:)
(Unless I’ve missed it before…)
Congrats on the crib sheet–it’s awesome! Great pic too!
When I took my daughter to see Brave last summer, I found myself identifying with the mother, not the heroine. Definitely middle-aged here.
One of my favorite parts of Tiny Furniture was the interactions between the mom and sister. Did you know that those are her mom and sister in real life? The apartment is also her mother’s apartment.
Another movie that does a great job of this, the dialog and the set, is “The Secret Lives of Dentists” the three little girls that play the daughters are so real! They aren’t obnoxious or ridiculously precocious. I watched the director’s commentary on that one and it turned out that they filmed the girls interacting a lot of times when they didn’t know they were being filmed. Also, the house was someone’s real vacation cabin. So all of the kid artwork on the walls was real.
“they” are her mom and sister! And the interactions between all three of them. I can not multitask.