Karli’s Comments (group member since Feb 23, 2010)

Karli’s comments from the Busy as a Bee Books group.

Any of you heard of Swag Bucks? It's a search engine that gives you points for doing web searches, which can be redeemed for various prizes - among them Amazon gift cards. My friend uses it and has gotten $80 in Amazon cards so far, she is saving them towards a Kindle. I just signed up for it too. Figured I'd share! :)

Congratulations to the Mother of the Bride!!!!! Enjoy your peace, when it comes!

I'm finding the Briggs translation very readable - Tolostoy is easier than Dostoyevsky for me. (or I had a difficult translation back in the day?) I do find myself wanting to take notes as I read. What strategies have you guys used?

I also read the section from on War & Peace and the author pretty much gushes about this book - and gushing isn't his style. He states that "For a fourteen-hundred-plus-page book, it's all pretty incredible."

It's official - I'm starting today! I'll check in when I've got some pages under my belt.

I appreciate you guys. It's hard for me to relax. I will try harder though. I keep thinking that earlier isn't better, that she will get it and she'll have that lightbulb thing. And it's not that she's struggling when compared to her peers - it's just Mommy's desire for her to leave them in the dust. See, stage-mom mentality! Bad Karli. But, that little girl cleaned my bathroom like no one's business today, and I had to check her brother's 3 times before he got it right. Teehee. We had a productive morning here. I have the kids help me clean - I had to help when I was their age, and so I'm teaching them how...even though I was totally jealous of my friends who never had to help clean the house. However, my future daughter-in-law will NOT curse me for not teaching my boy to cook, clean and do laundry one day. :) He's been doing a good job helping Mike with the shovelling too.

All I've got left is vacuuming, then I'll have earned a few hours in my chair by the fire with a book. I plan on starting after I've read the accompanying chapter from .

Tonight we've invited some friends over for supper, drinks and trivia and we'll let the kiddos play together. I'm looking forward to the day, and feeling awfully content with my lot in life today! (smirk!)

Can I "like" Tara's comment? I think it's spot-on!

Awesome Angie! :) I have that one too, I will post here what I have that's lendable and anyone who wants to borrow is more than welcome.

You've got the "Throw in the Towel" (#57) for the Hive. And I've done that too. I just can't deal with angst in my down time, so I'll put down a book.

@Loretta - Amen sister! I skimmed through about 5 pages of it, waiting for it to be done so she could hurry up and get back to Edouard already!

Smirking at you Tricia!

Elizabeth, that website may be a new favorite - thanks for sharing!

Yay! My book journal arrived today!!!!! YAY! And I adore the back pocket that's got stickers in it, and it's where I've stashed some of my Bee bookmarks too! Yay - something fun on my sick day!

Love the site full of moms and teachers!

I'll try. I am fairly patient with her...usually. But, as I was developing the stomach flu last night my patience level was shot. It's amazing how out of wack my emotions get when I'm getting sick.

Last night was a trying evening. I think Kasia should be picking up reading faster than she is and it was frustrating me last night...then I ended up sick, and figured out that my lack of patience and verge of tears stuff had much more to do with getting sick than my poor daughter's early reading.

It's hard for me to know what and how to do to help her become a better reader. I don't remember learning to read. I could just DO it from the time I was about 4. Then Gabe wasn't like that, but in Kindergarten he just picked it up and was reading at levels well above grade level. Kasia's not struggling when compared to her peers...but she also isn't excelling the way I sort of expect her to. I'm finding reading and school to be those places I may put unrealistic expectations on my children. I'm an academic mother rather than a sports-mom or beauty-pageant mom. But it's probably no better. Kasia's 5 - she'll be 6 in April. One of my friends mentioned that to me too...5 months from now Kasia will probably be doing better, she just hasn't had as much time. I keep looking at the school calendar rather than her true age. This mom gig sure is hard some days.

So now I'm home with my silent house and a cup of lemon and honey tea...hopefully my stomach will feel better and I can have a better Mommy Day tonight.

Jessica, you're right there with the rest of us. There are no denying the issues, but it's got a great story, concept and art. I agree with your statements 100%!

It's the night for sons to test us. Gabe had a meltdown, cried, hyperventalated, the works tonight for 45 minutes over his homework. He's 8. And it was spelling. SERIOUSLY?!?! I was VERY frustrated tonight. And on top of it, I think I'm getting sick, so you know how helpful that it.

I have no real wisdom, but lots of empathy. Our kids never liked sleeping with us, so we've never had to deal with that. What about a blanket nest on his floor? Or one of those little indoor tents? Gabe had a Spiderman one with a inflatable air mattress at the bottom - then it's not a deal if he DOES have an accident, but it's fun and cool for him to stay in his own room?

I concur on the cover though - lovely shade of turquoise!

You're right Stephanie - and honestly, I'll probably join the crowd of two eReaders at some point because of it. Mike wants an eReader for magazines - so I was going to look at the color Nook. Then I can steal it for the library!

I know that Mockingjay is lendable - the books I bought by Sarah Addison Allendon't seem to be though. I'll have to see what else I have that's lendable.

Absolutely Angie! Wanting to beat characters is FINE. And I'm from North Dakota. I haven't seen Fargo, don't plan to because it's frustrating and I don't want to watch something that's going to raise my blood pressure!

And the characters WERE kind of stupid, but I guess I blamed it more on the cultures of the time - I didn't think anything about stereotypes, other than it's fairly typical for someone who is exposed to chemical abuse to become an abuser. It also seemed to me that there was no one who could actually TELL the Captain about the abuse - the slaves were slaves. Maybe Belle could have/should have. But no one else could have realistically told the Captain that his choice of tutor for his son was wrong after he'd specifically told them to butt out and he didn't want to hear it.

Discussion is WAY more fun with dissenting opinions. :) No one here is rude or going to yell at you for having a different opinion...otherwise Tricia wouldn't be "speaking" to me over ! ;)