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Like my new design and name??  it was definitely time for a face-lift. And blogger has added all these new cool options and fonts you can do now with your blog. i love it! I also am a fan of that bar at the top of my blog; they are links to my other blogs! cool huh?! these things excite me. 

i decided that we'll always be the talbi, but we've been that for like 4 years now! its time for a change. "Mama & the Manfolk" is perfection. i will soon have 3 men in this home with me. yikes! and i designed it all by myself! i';m getting a teeny teeny bit more photoshop savvy.

I've added a few new "buttons" to my side bar. one is "Bee a little better" . i saw it on a friends blog. its just a simple , clean blog that inspires you to be happy, and better, and well- happy. who doesn't need a good dosage of that every day?

I also added "Clean Mama". if you know me at all, you know that i am not a clean mama. i'm a messy , crazy, disorganized mama. i drive myself crazy about it too. this blog has little tips on organization and how to keep your house clean, one step at a time. it inspires me.

(this is pretty random, i know. but i took these photos, and i like them)

Also-- i joined good reads. i know a few of you do it too. (i have that on my sidebar too) i don't really understand it all quite yet, so if anyone wants to explain it more to be, that'd be fine. there are soooo many books i wanna read. i love to read. i think its cool they have a site where you can make a list of what you have read and want to read. i think it also suggests books that you'll like too? that would be extra awesome. anyway- if you are on it , "add" me as a friend and tell me some good books that i'd love to read. currently i'm reading the true blood  "sookie stackhouse" series. if you've seen it on HBO, well i'm sorry & the books are really nothing like it. they are WAY better and not droppin eff bombs every second. they are a bit racy though, so if you despise of those things, don't read them. but i find them interesting. i also find it pretty interesting that i find it interesting to read about vampires, werewolves, shapeshifters, telepaths, fairies, witches and other super natural creatures. i have not yet run into a dragon, good thing, and i don't think i will. i'm on book 10 out of 11, so i don't think its happening. i usually hate sci-fi, but i guess you could say after twilight, i'm broadening my horizons. i mostly love novels & fiction. wait- is fiction the stories that could really happen? or is that non-fiction? basically, i usually like reading about things that could happen, things that get me all emotionally involved with real characters and a real story.

Have any of you read "Matched" ? if not, do it. its easy, very clean reading and ITS GOOD. you won't regret.

Anyway- next on my reading list is the "Uglies" series, "The book thief" and "the Work and the Glory series". let me add that i  LOVE series. i love knowing there are like 10 more nice beautiful thick books of the story i'm reading. and I HATE when they're over!

what's on your reading list??? what have you read that you LOVE that you must share with me?

tell me. yes YOU. tell me!!!!!