Friday, January 9, 2009

While you're down there...

We had our January Book Club at Borders last night. There were several people that weren't able to make it tonight but we managed to have a great time, especially searching through the "bargain" books. Adorable "pop-up" books for $5 you just can't beat that!! We roamed around looking for new books to purchase but mostly just chatted.
We sat down at the cafe with our steamed milk or hot chocolate and yummy desserts and had a very wonderful conversation.


We had some really inquisitive and thought provoking questions asked by Julie and we heard some "juicy gossip" from Liz (of all people). We had several hilarious stories told by various people, one of which is how I got the title for the post but if you weren't there you missed out!!!
We also shared different parenting tips and I was grateful for Julie's idea about what to do with fighting kids. She said that when her kids were fighting she would make them sit down and write 10 things that they like about each other. I have never thought of that but I hope my kids will get in a big fight soon so I can try it out!!
Melanie also revealed several bargain tips on Amazon and discovered that Walmart sells furniture...who would have guessed that you could buy a couch at Walmart (I should have known, you can get anything at Walmart)!!

The wait is finally over and our next book was revealed.

Can't wait to see everyone next month at Melanie's house to discuss it!! I hope everyone will be there, we missed you all!

Friday, December 5, 2008

More Pictures

I got a few pictures that I wanted to share with everyone. I should have taken more...we had such a great night!!
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I got a picture of our "sisters" and our "mom and daughter" I think these are the only blood relations in the group, right??

Christmas Book Club Dinner

We had our annual Christmas Dinner and Book Exchange last night. Cora hosted this year and she did a great job. Everybody brought really great food from chicken kiev to creamed corn, Julie's Yams, Chocolate Torte and many other yummy dishes. Each year we bring a wrapped book and do a gift exchange which gets pretty funny and crazy sometimes. Next month it is off to Barnes and Noble for book club!
Cathryn, Machelle, and Cindi
Stacy, Melanie, and Tandy
A sample of the fixins!

Angela will soon post more pictures so that you all can see everyone else.


Novembers Pick

The Last Lecture
Cora picked this book for November. We discussed it briefly at our Christmas party and the majority really liked this book.