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Hi there, I’m Melissia and I want to welcome you to BMelissia Bruehl and familyooks and Sassy Lilacs!  My husband and I live in Winter Garden, Florida with our twin almost 4-year-old daughters (my sassy lilacs)!  We also have a beautiful tortoiseshell kitty named Lola.  I love books, chocolate, Disney, staying up late reading and sleeping in, game nights, pedicures, bubble baths, cross-stitch and adventures with my family. I aspire to be a better cook but lack the time to do it.  Or maybe let’s just say I focus more on other things.  It’s certainly something I should spend some time on as I have some picky eaters in my family!  (I’m not mentioning any names…).
It was my goal to create a blog for quite some time.  Originally my goal was to start a blog to keep in touch with family and friends while I traveled for work.  Fast forward a few years and I became pregnant with twins.  It started to look like I was going to be on bedrest.  Bedrest turned into having the girls 7 weeks early.  I then wanted to start my blog to connect with others out there who had twins and preemies.  Now life has continued to change and I am a working mom with twins, one who has not only caught up in her development but we’re told is testing at a 7-year-old level in communication, and the other who is globally developmentally delayed and doing all things in her own time.  This can be very challenging as I struggle to make time for my husband, my girls, my jobs and myself.

My Love of Reading

Melissia Bruehl as toddlerI grew up in the Midwest, moving from Iowa to Nebraska to South Dakota and back to Iowa.  Disney brought me to Florida 16 years ago when I moved with a friend to work for Disney (yay Disney!).  I have one older sister and have always had a love of books.  I’m told my parents would put a pile of books in my crib and they would know I was asleep when the books stopped being dropped out of my bed.  We also joked that my childhood cat Whiskers was very intelligent as I often had her and many stuffed animals circled around me and would read to them.
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Hi there, I'm Melissia and I want to welcome you to Books and Sassy Lilacs!  My husband and I live in Winter Garden, Florida with our twin almost 4-year-old daughters (my sassy lilacs)!  We also have a beautiful tortoiseshell kitty named Lola.  I love books, chocolate, Disney, staying up late reading and sleeping in, game nights, pedicures, bubble baths, cross-stitch and … read more here

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The Secrets She Keeps
In Such Good Company: Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox
Ellie, Engineer: The Next Level
The Perfect Family
The Bookshop on the Corner
Dashing Through the Snow
Love You Gone
In the After
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The Atrocities
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