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It’s time for another installment of 7-Imp’s 7 Kicks . . . For those new to our series, this is where we all stop in every Sunday to report seven (more or less is fine) Good Things that happened to you (or that you read or saw or experienced or . . . well, you get the picture) this week. Absolutely anyone is welcome to contribute.<\/p>\n
Hi, everyone . . . Eisha is unable to contribute this week, ’cause she’s visiting family — including her stinkin’ cute punkin’ head brand-spankin’-new nephew, Miles. And, in fact, as I was typing my list here, I got some photos of Eisha and Miles in my email folder. I hope Eisha and her sister-in-law don’t mind me sharing one. If you follow our Sunday 7 Kicks lists, you know Eisha’s in love with him and this is the first<\/em> time she’s met him! So, check out that photo at the bottom of my list. How beautiful is that? . . . And Eisha’s visit to Tennessee to meet Miles leads me to Numero Uno on my 7 Kicks list:<\/p>\n 1) Eisha came to visit us this week! Here is a pic of us after a big, ‘ol wonderfully fattening and rather greasy meal of Southern food, which *How the blazes do you spell that word anyway? Is it “ketchup” if you’re Southern and “catsup” if you’re not? <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2) I got to go out on a date<\/a><\/strong> with my husband — sans kids. Mmmmm, tiramisu<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n 4) I also got a copy of the most recent Horn Book<\/a><\/em><\/strong> and enjoyed reading all the articles, particularly Roger’s<\/a><\/strong>. And, though I had read it online already, I enjoyed seeing in print Betsy Bird’s (Fuse’s) article<\/a><\/strong> on blogging in the kidlitosphere. And Eisha and I thank her again for including our site in her Kid-Lit Bloggers to Watch<\/a><\/strong> round-up. We were honored and excited to be included in the list — and in such good company. <\/p>\n 6) I have a ginormous stack of really great picture books to talk about here on the blog; let’s hope I get to them all (and let’s hope I can write reviews for them that don’t rival novellas in length, something at which I tend to excel. Logorrhea, I tell ya. I suffer from logorrhea). It wasn’t ’til I read a not-so-great picture book the other day that I realized how often I’m surrounded by high quality books for children, since my kidlitosphere peeps always steer me in the right direction. <\/p>\n What are your 7 Kicks? <\/p>\n Word out, yo.<\/p>\n It’s time for another installment of 7-Imp’s 7 Kicks . . . For those new to our series, this is where we all stop in every Sunday to report seven (more or less is fine) Good Things that happened to you (or that you read or saw or experienced or . . . well, you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seven-good-things-before-monday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Eisha says she’s missed (many thanks to the nice waitress who took the photo and whose name we never got). Those are my kiddos; Ada looks like she’s hiding, and Miriam has lots of ketchup* residue on her face, but they’re stinkin’ cute, if I must say so myself. And I must. So, for those who have ever wondered if this is, indeed, one huge conspiracy and the blog is really being run by one person who likes to pretend she’s two, here’s yet another photo of us in the flesh . . . We really enjoyed Eisha’s visit, and my eldest, Miriam (age three), is in love with her. Yup, pretty much thinks the sun rises and sets in Eisha and wishes she didn’t live so far, far away. But we were all very grateful for her visit. <\/p>\n
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<\/a>3) I got my copy of Monkey and Me<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, hot off the presses and straight from the UK. Thanks, Michele<\/a><\/strong>! I love it. Emily Gravett<\/a><\/strong>, pictured here, is where it’s at, I’m tellin’ ya. What a talent . . .<\/p>\n
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5) I was just given a copy of The Annotated Wizard of Oz<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by Michael Patrick Hearn, the world’s leading Oz scholar, apparently (or maybe he’s a whiz of a wiz if ever a wiz there was). Give me an annotated version of a children’s classic, and I’m very happy, indeed. Anyone else read this and highly recommend it? <\/p>\n![\"Write](\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/stationery3.jpg\")
7) I purchased some really nice, very gorgeous writing papers today (not the ones pictured on the left, though I’d take those any day, too). I’m going to send actual snail mail letters to friends at random (even if they live near me), because when you get something in the mail box that is not a credit card application or a bill or a car wash flyer, don’t you just want to jump up and down anymore? I do. (Plus, I have a good friend who will be living and working and studying and meditating at the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center<\/a><\/strong> in Carmel Valley, California, for quite a bit, and he’ll be offline — unreachable via cyberspace. Oh. the. horror!). Anyway, I’m finally getting around to doing this. My stationery is lovely and floral and exquisite. Only the best. I can’t wait to write my first note. At the risk of sounding like an insufferable Luddite: Ah, letter-writing, a dying art form! <\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/screaming1.jpg\")
(Oh, and here is the photo of Eisha with her nephew. Loveliness. And to prove that he’s even cute when he’s screaming, I’m attaching one more. Look, Aunt Eisha never takes her eyes off him. Aunthood rocks. Hmmm, I think in that first photo she’s about to take a bite out of his head<\/em>. Uh, sorry . . . inside joke between me and Eisha. That one’s for her. Somewhere she is laughing) . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"