After a 26-book wait, Richard and Sharon finally announce their plans to marry, to their daughters’ delight…and Mary Anne and Dawn’s dreaming and scheming shifts from Parent Trapping to high-gear wedding planning. As Mary Anne mentally prepares to gain a stepfamily and lose the only home she’s ever known, she somehow also steers the Arnold twins through conflict as they try on their new, separate identities.

Join us and our guest Jessie in a pew at the back of the chapel (plenty of room…where are Sharon and Richard’s friends?) as we titter about Dawn’s attire and share why we’re gaga for Gozzie Kunka in our chat about Mary Anne and the Great Romance.

Learn more about Jessie at jessierosen.com, and find her new book, All the Signs, at bookshop.org.

What the Arnold twin room row called to mind

(just one of many examples)

Implausible Anachronistic/Time-Traveling Suitor Watchlist

Bridgerton

Kate & Leopold

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It’s winter in Stoneybrook, and the baby-sitters are off to Vermont for the annual trip to Leicester Lodge, hosts of the Winter War. No sooner do they arrive at the Overlook-esque ski lodge than a real ripsnorter of a storm blows in (with thanks for the phrase to local armchair meteorologist Teensy Mooseman), and a busload of children are stranded without adequate supervision. Cue the BSC! They spend the week caring for kids, competing for colors, and crushing on maybe Canadians, with plenty of hot chocolate and local legends to go around. Take off your fat mittens and join us as we curl up by the fire and pull Super Special #3: Baby-sitters’ Winter Vacation off the library shelf.

School Vacation Media List:

• I’m Henry the VIII by Herman’s Hermits

• John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt

• The Shining trailer

  White Christmas trailer

• Chains of Love by Pat Boone

• I Love Lucy Vitameatavegamin scene

• Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree by the Andrews Sisters

  
  

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As the McGill gals settle into their new old house and start to clear forgotten treasures from the attic, neighbor Mal scores a most handsome trunk and finds evidence of a kindred spirit (possibly from the spirit world) within. Join hands with us at the seance table (but leave the offensive costume and behavior behind, Kristy) as we learn the distinction between journals and diaries, which of the sitters are believers in or skeptics of ghoulies and ghosties, and what an inspiring reading tutor junior officer Pike is in Mallory and the Mystery Diary.

Media recommendations from this week's episode:

Season 1 of Yellowjackets (2021)

Now and Then (1995)

About The Cartoonists Club by Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud (2025)

The one thing Mallory maybe missed the mark on:

GOOPS and How to be Them by Gelett Burgess (1900)

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