NINJAGO, vacation, cheap razors

• I really dislike the term "food baby."
• My sons are obsessed with NINJAGO. I had to sneak that link in quick before they saw it on my computer.
• I finished the Fire Flower dress. It is adorable. As soon as the Princess cooperates with a little photo shoot, I'll show it to you!
• A while back I told you all to sign up for AppSmitten, which is an email newsletter that suggests useful iPhone and Android apps. I'm going to remind you of it again, because sometimes it suggests really great stuff. Here's the link to sign up.
• Everyone in my family is finally healthy again, yay!!
• In a couple of weeks Mike has a conference to attend in Colorado Springs. Spouses are invited. My extra wonderful terrific favorite sister-in-law (and I think I'm safe saying that because none of my family reads the blog) has volunteered to come spend three nights with my children so that I can go. I am beyond excited. Free vacation! No kids! Sleeping! Reading! I'm even excited by the prospect of an 8 hour car ride.
• This summer I will be driving to Alabama with the kids. At least one direction I'll be doing it alone with the kids. I plan on taking 3 or 4 days to get home. I'll be looking for things to do and people to visit along the way. (And possibly driveways to park the camper in overnight and bathrooms to borrow.) I'll post more about it later, but if you live anywhere near our path, we'd love to see you. (South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, and Tennessee, mainly, but for the right incentive we can detour a little.) (Trish, could you please move Texas just a little bit to the east? thanks!)
• I'm going to join the chorus at Amazon.com and tell you that the Noxzema SpaShave Disposable Shavers, 4-Blade are not even worth a one star rating. Complete waste of time and money.

What I Read This Week:

• Yesterday I posted a long list of library books, after which the above picture happened, for the second time in one day.  As I was picking them up, again, I realized that I really do want to read those books. I've been through them so many times and picked out and given away everything I can bear to get rid of.  So despite the giant library pile, I think every other book I read should come from my own shelves.
• On Friday I read The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. I quite enjoyed it, and you can read my thoughts here.
• I also finished Virgin River by Robyn Carr this week. I enjoyed it a good bit but there was one scene that was really off putting. Thankfully it was not repeated. Because of that one scene, I wouldn't recommend it across the board, despite the rest of the book being perfectly fine.  I picked up the next book in the series at the library and if it holds up as well I'll review them together.
• Yesterday as I was running out the door to the gym, I grabbed Birthright by Nora Roberts off my shelves. (This was before the library trip.) I didn't put a lot of thought into it and when it opens with a baby being kidnapped (like page 4, no spoiler) I thought perhaps I'd acted in haste.  I'm 100 or so pages in now and it's going well. This one is a reunion story, and it's refreshing to have a hero who is dedicated to winning the girl from the beginning. This one weighs in at nearly 500 pages.
• I am also slowly working my way through Catholicism For Dummies . More on this later.