Books, Movie and Valentine's...

I am so excited to get to blog again and have a computer that is working! YEAH! I had some cute pictures of Norah today but cannot find the camera cord to connect it to the computer...so those pictures will have to be on another day...

Norah was the special helper one day this week so she got to take something for "Show and Tell" and it had to start with the letter "U." On her own, she thought of her book Pinkalicious, "School Rules" which has Goldie the Unicorn in it. She was so excited that the teacher's read it to the class!

I read "Matched" by Ally Condie and did not really enjoy it as I found it boring so I do not think I will be reading anymore of the series. Now I am reading "Shiver" by Maggie Stiefvater and it is better than "Matched" but I still not loving it yet so we'll see if I read the rest of the series after this book.
I have been sad that I have left Harry Potter world and contemplate re-reading the series again. I know...I know....I have also seen that they sell the actual wands like in the Harry Potter movies at a store in the Harry Potter Park in Disney World and yes...I have thought about having one!!! :)
-->(Meredyth...we should so get one!!!) <--
Check it out here...http://www.wizardingworldharrypotter.com/shows/ollivanders-wand-shop

But I did see this book "Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity" by Katherine Boo that looks interesting so it may go on the "To be read" book list.

Also there are some cute kid movies coming out...."Lorax" and I admit that I do not remember this story as of now but it looks cute and Zac Efron voices one of the characters...so enough said!

Also "Mirror Mirror" looks interesting and I so want to see how they modernize Snow White as she was my favorite princess when I was growing up. I think it also means that I am old since Julia Roberts is too old to play Snow White...and instead is the "Mirror" :)

Last night Jeff and I watched the movie "Columbiana" and it was pretty good...I tried to talk him into watching "Drive" but maybe we will watch that one next weekend. (I actually tried to get him to watch Twilight-"Breaking Dawn Part 1" and I got a "no way" so "Columbiana" it was!)

Valentine's Day is Tuesday and Norah is in charge of bringing napkins for their party at school (gotta pick those up tomorrow!) and of course she is taking some Princess Valentine's with Tattoos for all her friends and teachers. We have her a puzzle and a book for Valentine's Day too. My mom used to always get us a box of Russell Stover Pecan Delights aka Turtles for Valentine's Day. LOVE them! Yummy!

And since I know Jeff well enough to know that he will not be coming home with a box of chocolates for me...maybe I should make these Chocolate Turtle Cookies....

Um....yeah...those would be so good!! Here is the recipe....http://www.oneshetwoshe.com/2011/01/chocolate-turtle-cookies-caramel-is-our.html

Well I am off to get ready for tomorrow, watch Adele on the Grammy's, and just hang out a little. I also have lost all my "Favorites" websites that I had found over the years and had so many blogs about Recipes, Organization, Teaching, etc. that I would check out and now I feel a little sad that I can't remember where I got such good ideas from...so will have to start finding them again! And I was thinking about what to do for my students for Valentine's Day and think I will let my students pick something out of my "reward box" that I have in my room...it has pencils and candy...two vital things to make it through middle school! :) Also it wouldn't let me hyperlink any words in this post and I think the spacing is bad again. Oh well...

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Books, Movie and Valentine's...